N.Y. General Municipal Law Section 103-E
Conspiracies to prevent competitive bidding or competitive offering on public contracts

1.

A person or corporation who shall wilfully, knowingly and with intent to defraud, make or enter into, or attempt to make or enter into, with any other person or corporation, a contract, agreement, arrangement or combination to submit a fraudulent or collusive bid or offer, or to refrain from submitting a bona fide competitive bid or competitive offer, to any board, officer, agency, department, commission or other agency of the state or of a public corporation on a contract for public work or purchase which has been advertised for bidding or offering, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall, if a natural person, be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not longer than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and if a corporation by a fine not exceeding twenty thousand dollars. An indictment or information based upon a violation of any provision of this section must be found within three years after its commission.

2.

For the purpose of this section a public corporation shall mean a county, city, town, village, school district, a territorial division of the state established by law and possessing the power to contract indebtedness and levy taxes or benefit assessments upon real estate or to require the levy of such taxes or assessments, whether or not such territorial division is expressly declared to be a body corporate and politic by the statute creating or authorizing the creation of such territorial division, and a corporation organized to construct or operate a public improvement wholly or partly within the state, the profits from which inure to the benefit of this or other states or to the people thereof.

Source: Section 103-E — Conspiracies to prevent competitive bidding or competitive offering on public contracts, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/GMU/103-E (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Jan. 31, 2026).

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Definitions 100–A
Declaration of policy 101
Separate specifications for certain public work 102
Deposits on plans and specifications 103
Advertising for bids and offers 103–A
Ground for cancellation of contract by municipal corporations and fire districts 103–B
Disqualification to contract with municipal corporations and fire districts 103–C
Removal of disqualification of public contractors by petition 103–D
Statement of non-collusion in bids and proposals to political subdivision of the state 103–E
Conspiracies to prevent competitive bidding or competitive offering on public contracts 103–F
Security bonds 103–G
Iranian energy sector divestment 103–H
Restriction on purchasing certain technology which poses a security threat 104
Purchase through office of general services 104–A
Purchasing of products for public use 104–B
Procurement policies and procedures 104–C
Disposal of surplus computer equipment 104–D
The New York state buy American salt act 105
Disposition of deposit accompanying bid 106
Withdrawal of retained percentages 106–A
Service charge for receiving, handling and disbursing funds and coupons 106–B
Payment on public work projects 107
Claims against political subdivisions 108
Workmen’s compensation insurance on public works 109
Assignment of public contracts 109–A
Purchases through the office of general services by certain public associations 109–B
Installment contracts 109–C
Purchases through county contracts by certain not-for-profit corporations 109–D
Emergency vehicle warranties 109–E
Additional requirements for right-of-way permits
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Verified:
Jan. 31, 2026

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

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