§ 31-a. Purchase through the state division of standards and purchase
in the office of general services by certain not-for-profit
corporations. A corporation, incorporated under the not-for-profit
corporation law of the state of New York and approved by the federal
government as a recipient of federal funds for the acquisition of
equipment to provide transportation services to the elderly and/or
handicapped, may make purchases, upon the written approval of the
department of transportation, of special vehicles and/or radio equipment
pursuant to the terms of contracts let by the state division of
standards and purchase in the office of general services subject to such
rules as may be established from time to time pursuant to section one
hundred sixty-three of the state finance law which may establish
limitations with respect to commodities and impose such other
appropriate conditions upon purchasing as deemed necessary by the
commissioner of general services in order to protect the state's own
purchasing interests; provided that each such purchase shall have a cost
of five hundred dollars or more and that said corporation shall accept
sole responsibility for any payment of such cost due the vendor.