N.Y. Executive Law Section 163-A
Contracts with Green Thumb Environmental Beautification, Incorporated

Each state department, agency, board, bureau, commission or other unit performing governmental functions for the state, within amounts appropriated therefor, may contract with Green Thumb Environmental Beautification, Incorporated, a nonprofit organization that is organized for the purpose of environmental beautification and employs persons fifty-five years of age or older whose annual income does not exceed:

(1)

two hundred fifty percent of the non-farm federal poverty level applicable to a family of one (as defined and updated by the federal department of health and human services) for an individual living alone or in another person’s home; or

(2)

four hundred percent of the non-farm federal poverty level applicable to a family of one (as defined and updated by the federal department of health and human services) for a couple living alone or in another person’s home. The contract shall name the organization, the amount and manner of payments for the service to be rendered, nature of such service, the rendering of a verified account of the disbursements with verified or certified vouchers therefor attached, a refund of any unused amount, and such other conditions upon the use thereof as may be deemed proper.

Source: Section 163-A — Contracts with Green Thumb Environmental Beautification, Incorporated, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/EXC/163-A (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Jul. 25, 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:
Jul. 25, 2026

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 163-A. Contracts with Green Thumb Env’t Beautification, Inc.'s source at nysenate​.gov

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