40-A - Recycled products.

§  40-a. Recycled products. All products purchased by the courts shall  be recycled products, which meet  contract  specifications,  unless  the  product  is  only  available without recycled content, and provided that  the cost of the recycled product does not exceed a cost premium  of  ten  percent  above  the  cost of a comparable product that is not a recycled  product or, if  at  least  fifty  percent  of  the  secondary  materials  utilized in the manufacture of that product are generated from the waste  stream  in  New  York  state,  the cost of the recycled product does not  exceed a cost premium of fifteen percent above the cost of a  comparable  product  that is not a recycled product. For the purpose of this section  and until July first, nineteen hundred  ninety-six,  "recycled  product"  shall  mean  any  product  which  has  been  manufactured from secondary  materials,  as  defined  in  subdivision  one  of  section  two  hundred  sixty-one  of the economic development law, and meets secondary material  content requirements adopted by the office  of  general  services  under  subdivision  one  of  section  one  hundred  seventy-seven  of the state  finance law for products available to the courts  under  state  contract  or, if no such contract for such product is available, any product which  meets  the secondary material content requirements adopted by the courts  with respect to a specific commodity procurement by the  court.  On  and  after  July first, nineteen hundred ninety-six, "recycled product" shall  mean, for the purposes of this  section,  any  product  which  has  been  manufactured  from secondary materials, as defined in subdivision one of  section two hundred sixty-one of the economic development law, and which  meets the requirements of subdivision two  of  section  27-0717  of  the  environmental  conservation  law  and  regulations  promulgated pursuant  thereto. Whenever purchasing or causing  the  purchase  of  printing  on  recycled  paper  pursuant  to this section, the courts shall require the  printed  material  to  contain  the  official  state  recycling   emblem  established  pursuant  to  subdivision  two  of  section  27-0717 of the  environmental conservation  law  and  regulations  promulgated  pursuant  thereto   if   such  paper  has  been  approved  by  the  department  of  environmental  conservation  as  satisfying  the  requirements  of  such  statute  and  regulations,  or,  if such paper has not been so approved,  require the printed  material  to  include  a  printed  statement  which  indicates  the  percentages  of  pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled  material content of such paper.