N.Y. Executive Law Section 162
Contracts for professional services of state and municipal employees

Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, general, special or local, the state and any municipal subdivision thereof and any department, bureau, board, commission, authority or any other agency or instrumentality of the state or any municipal subdivision thereof, are hereby severally authorized and empowered to enter into any contract or arrangement with the United States of America or any office, department, agency or instrumentality thereof for the performance at cost by engineers, architects, draftsmen and chemists employed by the state or such municipal subdivision, upon such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon, of any project or work authorized by or pursuant to any act of congress or the cost of which has been provided for by an appropriation or contract authorization made by any act of congress which involves or requires the professional services of such employees. The making or performance of any such contract or arrangement shall in no wise be deemed to affect or result in the impairment, diminution or abridgment of the compensation, or any of the civil service, retirement and other rights, privileges and immunities of any employee engaged in the performance of any service thereunder.

Source: Section 162 — Contracts for professional services of state and municipal employees, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/EXC/162 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Jun. 18, 2026).

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Certain searches, the filing of papers, and certified copies, ordered by state officers to be gratuitous 162
Contracts for professional services of state and municipal employees 163
Contracts for services of state agencies 163–A
Contracts with Green Thumb Environmental Beautification, Incorporated 164
Reports by and to the department 164–A
Report and publication economy regulations 164–B
State aid to rural areas: agency reports 164–C
Printing cost reduction notices 164–D
Availability of application forms 165
Commission on uniform state laws 166
Record of appearances 167
Advertising and publicizing summer camps cited as subversive 168
Notices to attorneys at law by state bodies or officers 168–A
Designation of days of commemoration 169
Salaries of certain state officers 170
Audit of agencies by the state comptroller 170–A
Celebration of Rosa Parks 170–B
Employee loans 170–B*2
Racial references contained in state and municipal forms 170–C
Regulatory penalties for small businesses 170–D
Disclosure of disabled tenants’ rights 170–E
Disclosure of lawful source of income rights to prospective tenants 170–E*2
Collection of demographic information 170–F
Website accessibility 170–G
Collection of demographic information 170–H
Additional collection of demographic information 170–I
Gender-based violence and the workplace 170–J
Mental health references contained in state and municipal forms 170–K
Local cops, local crimes act 171
Discovery and disposition of human remains and funerary objects
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Verified:
Jun. 18, 2026

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

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