§ 179-p. Inapplicability of the provisions. The provisions of this
article shall not apply to payments due and owing by the state:

1. under the eminent domain procedure law;

2. as interest allowed on judgments rendered by a court pursuant to
any provision of law other than those provisions contained in this
article;

3. to the federal government; to any state agency or its related
instrumentalities; to any duly constituted unit of local government
including, but not limited to, counties, cities, towns, villages, school
districts, special districts, or any of their related instrumentalities;
to any public authority or public benefit corporation; or to employees
of state agencies when acting in, or incidental to, their public
employment capacity;

4. to contractors of third party payment agreements including, but not
limited to, the fiscal agent or fiscal intermediary designated pursuant
to section three hundred sixty-seven-b of the social services law;

5. to entities which receive state funds through any intermediary
organization other than a state agency; or

6. in situations where the comptroller exercises a legally authorized
set-off against all or part of the payment due the contractor.