§ 163-a. Contracts with Green Thumb Environmental Beautification,
Incorporated. Each state department, agency, board, bureau, commission
or other unit performing governmental functions for the state, within
amounts appropriated therefor, may contract with Green Thumb
Environmental Beautification, Incorporated, a nonprofit organization
that is organized for the purpose of environmental beautification and
employs persons fifty-five years of age or older whose annual income
does not exceed: (1) two hundred fifty percent of the non-farm federal
poverty level applicable to a family of one (as defined and updated by
the federal department of health and human services) for an individual
living alone or in another person's home; or (2) four hundred percent of
the non-farm federal poverty level applicable to a family of one (as
defined and updated by the federal department of health and human
services) for a couple living alone or in another person's home. The
contract shall name the organization, the amount and manner of payments
for the service to be rendered, nature of such service, the rendering of
a verified account of the disbursements with verified or certified
vouchers therefor attached, a refund of any unused amount, and such
other conditions upon the use thereof as may be deemed proper.