§ 24. Application of article to mental hygiene construction. The
provisions of this article shall not apply to the department of mental
hygiene or to mental hygiene facilities constructed, acquired,
reconstructed, rehabilitated or improved pursuant to the health and
mental hygiene facilities improvement act, or to contracts entered into
by the trustees of the health and mental hygiene facilities improvement
corporation or by the state housing finance agency in relation thereto,
or to real property held in the name of the state for the corporate
purposes of such corporation, except that the provisions of this article
shall apply, so far as practicable, to such mental hygiene facilities or
real property as are constructed, acquired, reconstructed, rehabilitated
or improved by the commissioner of general services under an agreement
made with the trustees of the health and mental hygiene facilities
improvement corporation; and except further that nothing herein
contained shall be deemed to affect the power of the department of
mental hygiene or the trustees of the health and mental hygiene
facilities improvement corporation to enter into any short form contract
in accordance with section twenty of this chapter for minor work of
construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair of any mental
hygiene facility being used by the said department or under the
jurisdiction of the said trustees.