N.Y. JUD Law § 40-A

§ 40-a. Recycled products. All products purchased by the courts shall\nbe recycled products, which meet contract specifications, unless the\nproduct is only available without recycled content, and provided that\nthe cost of the recycled product does not exceed a cost premium of ten\npercent above the cost of a comparable product that is not a recycled\nproduct or, if at least fifty percent of the secondary materials\nutilized in the manufacture of that product are generated from the waste\nstream in New York state, the cost of the recycled product does not\nexceed a cost premium of fifteen percent above the cost of a comparable\nproduct that is not a recycled product. For the purpose of this section\nand until July first, nineteen hundred ninety-six, "recycled product"\nshall mean any product which has been manufactured from secondary\nmaterials, as defined in subdivision one of section two hundred\nsixty-one of the economic development law, and meets secondary material\ncontent requirements adopted by the office of general services under\nsubdivision one of section one hundred seventy-seven of the state\nfinance law for products available to the courts under state contract\nor, if no such contract for such product is available, any product which\nmeets the secondary material content requirements adopted by the courts\nwith respect to a specific commodity procurement by the court. On and\nafter July first, nineteen hundred ninety-six, "recycled product" shall\nmean, for the purposes of this section, any product which has been\nmanufactured from secondary materials, as defined in subdivision one of\nsection two hundred sixty-one of the economic development law, and which\nmeets the requirements of subdivision two of section 27-0717 of the\nenvironmental conservation law and regulations promulgated pursuant\nthereto. Whenever purchasing or causing the purchase of printing on\nrecycled paper pursuant to this section, the courts shall require the\nprinted material to contain the official state recycling emblem\nestablished pursuant to subdivision two of section 27-0717 of the\nenvironmental conservation law and regulations promulgated pursuant\nthereto if such paper has been approved by the department of\nenvironmental conservation as satisfying the requirements of such\nstatute and regulations, or, if such paper has not been so approved,\nrequire the printed material to include a printed statement which\nindicates the percentages of pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled\nmaterial content of such paper.\n