Section 122-A. Purchasing of products for public use

Notwithstanding the
  provisions of section one hundred three of the  general  municipal  law,
  when  purchasing  products  the  officer, board or agency of a town 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  town  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  town  with  respect  to a specific commodity procurement by the
  town. 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 such officer, board or agency 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  regulation,  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.