Bill Text: NY S02243 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Allows certain not-for-profits to make purchases through use of county contracts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-09-29 - SIGNED CHAP.360 [S02243 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S02243-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2243--A Cal. No. 1290 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 22, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. STEWART-COUSINS, AVELLA, LATIMER, PANEPINTO, STAVI- SKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be commit- ted to the Committee on Local Government -- recommitted to the Commit- tee on Local Government in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to allowing not- for-profits to make purchases through county contracts The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new 2 section 109-c to read as follows: 3 § 109-c. Purchases through county contracts by certain not-for-profit 4 corporations. Not-for-profit corporations that provide a service to a 5 county are authorized to make purchases or to contract for services 6 other than services subject to article eight or any provisions of the 7 labor law and other than purchases of motor fuel, diesel motor fuel or 8 cigarettes, through the county which the not-for-profit has a contract 9 with. Such purchases or contracts for services made through a county 10 contract by a not-for-profit shall directly relate to the service for 11 which the not-for-profit provides to such county. The county may estab- 12 lish limitations with respect to commodities and services and impose 13 such other appropriate conditions upon purchasing as deemed necessary by 14 the chief fiscal officer of the county in order to protect the county's 15 own purchasing interests; and such not-for-profit corporation shall make 16 any purchase pursuant to this section in its own name and accept sole 17 responsibility for any payment due to the vendor and such not-for-profit 18 corporation and vendor shall each be responsible for any tax due with 19 respect to the purchases by the not-for-profit corporation. Nothing in 20 this section shall be construed as altering any tax exemption afforded 21 to the not-for-profit corporation or as creating a principal/agent 22 relationship between the county and not-for-profit corporation. 23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00033-03-6