Bill Text: NY A04724 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the department of environmental conservation to engage in cooperative purchasing and authorizes intergovernmental agreements between public agencies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-08 - held for consideration in environmental conservation [A04724 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04724-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4724
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 3, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law and the general
          municipal law, in relation to authorizing the department  of  environ-
          mental  conservation to engage in cooperative purchasing and authoriz-
          ing intergovernmental agreements
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  3-0117  of the environmental conservation law is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5. The department may, with  written  approval  of  the  commissioner,
     4  participate  in, sponsor, conduct or administer a cooperative purchasing
     5  agreement for the procurement of material  or  nonprofessional  services
     6  with  one  or  more  public procurement units either within the state or
     7  with another state in accordance with an agreement entered into  between
     8  the participants.
     9    §  2.  The  general  municipal  law is amended by adding a new section
    10  109-d to read as follows:
    11    §  109-d.  Intergovernmental  agreements.  1.  For  purposes  of  this
    12  section,  the  term  "public  agency" shall mean any county, city, town,
    13  village, school district, improvement district or  district  corporation
    14  of the state of New York.
    15    2.  Any  power or powers, privilege or privileges, authority or under-
    16  taking, exercised or capable of exercise, or which may  be  engaged  in,
    17  and  any public works which may be undertaken, by a public agency acting
    18  alone may be exercised, enjoyed, engaged in or undertaken  jointly  with
    19  any other public agency which could likewise act alone.
    20    3.  Any two or more public agencies may enter into a written agreement
    21  with one another  for  joint  or  cooperative  action  pursuant  to  the
    22  provisions  of this section. Appropriate action by ordinance, resolution
    23  or otherwise pursuant to law of the governing bodies of the  participat-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08002-01-7
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     1  ing  public  agencies shall be necessary before any such agreement shall
     2  become effective. Any separately legal or administrative  entity  estab-
     3  lished hereunder is a public corporation and may exist for the length of
     4  time set forth in the intergovernmental agreement.
     5    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.