§ 152. Chapter inapplicable to state university construction. The
provisions of this chapter shall not apply to academic buildings,
dormitories and other facilities constructed, acquired, reconstructed,
rehabilitated or improved for the use of the state university of New
York or any state-operated institution or statutory or contract college
under the jurisdiction thereof or for the use of the students, faculty
and staff of the state university or any such state-operated institution
or statutory or contract college under the jurisdiction thereof, and
their families, or to contracts entered into by the state university
construction fund or the state university trustees pursuant to article
eight-a of the education law or to real property held in the name of the
state for purposes of the state university of New York or a
state-operated institution or statutory or contract college under the
jurisdiction thereof; provided, however, that nothing herein contained
shall be deemed to affect the power of any officer, department, board,
commission, bureau, division, public benefit corporation, agency or
instrumentality of the state from constructing, acquiring,
reconstructing, rehabilitating or improving such facilities in
accordance with the provisions of article eight-a of the education law
if duly authorized by law; and provided further that nothing herein
contained shall be deemed to affect the power of the state university
trustees to enter into any short form contract for minor work of
construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair of any such
facilities operated under the jurisdiction of such trustees in
accordance with the provisions of section twenty of this chapter.