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                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 14, 2017
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 Introduced  by M. of A. JENNE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to increasing the
   purchasing limit for school districts to order  from  certain  farmers
   without a waiver
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  9  of
 section  103  of  the general municipal law, as amended by chapter 62 of
 the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   (ii) such association of producers or growers is comprised  of  owners
 of farms who also operate such farms and have combined to fill the order
 of  a  school  district,  and  where such order is for [twenty-five] ONE
 HUNDRED FIFTY thousand dollars or less as  herein  authorized,  provided
 however,  that a school district may apply to the commissioner of educa-
 tion for permission to purchase orders of more  than  [twenty-five]  ONE
 HUNDRED  FIFTY  thousand  dollars  from an association of owners of such
 farms when no other producers or growers have offered to  sell  to  such
 school;
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09295-01-7