S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5689
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 14, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. JENNE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to increasing the
purchasing limit for school districts to order from certain farmers
without a waiver
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 9 of
section 103 of the general municipal law, as amended by chapter 62 of
the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
(ii) such association of producers or growers is comprised of owners
of farms who also operate such farms and have combined to fill the order
of a school district, and where such order is for [twenty-five] ONE
HUNDRED FIFTY thousand dollars or less as herein authorized, provided
however, that a school district may apply to the commissioner of educa-
tion for permission to purchase orders of more than [twenty-five] ONE
HUNDRED FIFTY thousand dollars from an association of owners of such
farms when no other producers or growers have offered to sell to such
school;
§ 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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