Section 3712. State agency for surplus property

The  commissioner of
  education, or such other state officer as may, from  time  to  time,  be
  designated  by  the  governor,  shall  be  the  state agency for surplus
  property and is hereby authorized and empowered (1) to acquire from  the
  United States of America under and in conformance with the provisions of
  section two hundred three (j) of the federal property and administrative
  services  act  of  nineteen hundred forty-nine as amended, such property
  including equipment, materials,  books,  or  other  supplies  under  the
  control  of  any department or agency of the United States of America as
  may be usable and necessary for purposes of education, public health  or
  civil  defense,  including  research  for any such purpose, and for such
  other purposes as may now or hereafter be authorized by federal law; (2)
  to warehouse such property; and (3) to distribute such  property  within
  the  state  to  tax-supported  medical institutions, hospitals, clinics,
  health centers, school  systems,  schools,  colleges,  and  universities
  within  the  state,  to other nonprofit medical institutions, hospitals,
  clinics, health centers, schools, colleges and  universities  which  are
  exempt  from  taxation  under  section  five  hundred one (c) (3) of the
  United States internal revenue code of nineteen hundred  fifty-four,  to
  civil  defense organizations of the state, or political subdivisions and
  instrumentalities thereof, which are established pursuant to state  law,
  and  to  such other types of institutions or activities as may now be or
  hereafter become eligible under federal law to  acquire  such  property.
  The  commissioner  of  education,  or such other state officer as may be
  designated by the governor, is hereby  authorized  to  appoint  advisory
  board  or  committees  and to do any and all acts necessary to carry out
  the foregoing duties of such agency for surplus property  in  accordance
  with  such  federal property and administrative services act of nineteen
  hundred forty-nine as amended and the rules and regulations  of  any  of
  the departments or agencies of the United States of America duly adopted
  in accordance therewith.