Section 5-525. 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 village 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 village 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  village with respect to a specific commodity procurement by the
  village.  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 is 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 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.