STATE OF NEW YORK
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2626
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 24, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to deposits on plans
and specifications for contracts for public works
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 143 of the state finance law, as
2 amended by chapter 43 of the laws of 1969, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of any general or
5 special law, the board, division, department, bureau, agency, officer or
6 commission of the state charged with the duty of preparing plans and
7 specifications for and awarding or entering into contracts for the
8 performance of public work [shall] may require the payment of a fixed
9 sum of money, not exceeding one hundred dollars, for each copy of such
10 plans and specifications, by persons or corporations desiring a copy
11 thereof. Any person or corporation desiring a copy of such plans and
12 specifications and making the deposit required by this section shall be
13 furnished with one copy of the plans and specifications. Notwithstand-
14 ing the foregoing, where payment is required it shall be waived upon
15 request by minority- and women-owned business enterprises certified
16 pursuant to article fifteen-A of the executive law or by service-disa-
17 bled veteran-owned business enterprises certified pursuant to article
18 seventeen-B of the executive law. Such payment may also be waived when
19 such plans and specifications are made available and obtained electron-
20 ically or in any non-paper form from the board, division, department,
21 bureau, agency, officer or commission of the state.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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