Section 626. Purchasing of products for county use

Notwithstanding the
  provisions of section one hundred three of the  general  municipal  law,
  when  purchasing  products,  the  county  purchasing agent may, wherever
  recycled products meet contract specifications and  the  price  of  such
  products  is  reasonably  competitive, purchase such products.   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 county  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  county  with respect to a specific commodity procurement by the
  county.  On and after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-six, "recycled
  product" shall mean, for the purposes of this section, any product which
  is 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. For the purpose of this section, "reasonably competitive" shall
  mean 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.  Whenever the county
  purchasing agent shall purchase or cause the  purchase  of  printing  on
  recycled  paper  pursuant  to  this section, he or she 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.