§ 3712. State agency for surplus property. The commissioner of
education, or such other state officer as may, from time to time, be
designated by the governor, shall be the state agency for surplus
property and is hereby authorized and empowered (1) to acquire from the
United States of America under and in conformance with the provisions of
section two hundred three (j) of the federal property and administrative
services act of nineteen hundred forty-nine as amended, such property
including equipment, materials, books, or other supplies under the
control of any department or agency of the United States of America as
may be usable and necessary for purposes of education, public health or
civil defense, including research for any such purpose, and for such
other purposes as may now or hereafter be authorized by federal law; (2)
to warehouse such property; and (3) to distribute such property within
the state to tax-supported medical institutions, hospitals, clinics,
health centers, school systems, schools, colleges, and universities
within the state, to other nonprofit medical institutions, hospitals,
clinics, health centers, schools, colleges and universities which are
exempt from taxation under section five hundred one (c) (3) of the
United States internal revenue code of nineteen hundred fifty-four, to
civil defense organizations of the state, or political subdivisions and
instrumentalities thereof, which are established pursuant to state law,
and to such other types of institutions or activities as may now be or
hereafter become eligible under federal law to acquire such property.
The commissioner of education, or such other state officer as may be
designated by the governor, is hereby authorized to appoint advisory
board or committees and to do any and all acts necessary to carry out
the foregoing duties of such agency for surplus property in accordance
with such federal property and administrative services act of nineteen
hundred forty-nine as amended and the rules and regulations of any of
the departments or agencies of the United States of America duly adopted
in accordance therewith.