§ 179-E — Definitions

§ 179-e. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms\nshall have the following meanings unless otherwise specified:\n 1. "Contract" means an enforceable agreement entered into by a\ncontractor and a state agency.\n 2. "Contractor" means any person, partnership, firm, corporation, or\nassociation:\n a. selling materials, equipment, or supplies or leasing property or\nequipment to a state agency;\n b. constructing, reconstructing, rehabilitating, or repairing\nbuildings or highways for, or on behalf of, a state agency; or\n c. rendering or providing services pursuant to a contract with a state\nagency.\n 3. "Designated payment office" means the office designated by the\nstate agency to which a proper invoice is to be submitted by a\ncontractor.\n 4. "Payment date" means the date on which a check for payment pursuant\nto a contract is dated.\n 5. "Proper invoice" means a written request for a contract payment\nthat is submitted by a contractor setting forth the description, price,\nand quantity of goods, property, or services delivered or rendered, in\nsuch form and supported by such other substantiating documentation as\nthe state comptroller or individual state agency may reasonably require.\n 6. "Receipt of an invoice" means (a) the date on which a proper\ninvoice is actually received in the designated payment office, or (b)\nthe date on which the state agency receives the purchased goods,\nproperty, or services covered by the proper invoice, whichever is later,\nor (c) in regard to final payments on highway construction contracts,\nthe date determined in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (g)\nof subdivision seven of section thirty-eight of the highway law.\n 7. "Required payment date" means the date by which a contract payment\nmust be made in order for the state government not to become liable for\ninterest payments, pursuant to subdivision two or subdivision five of\nsection one hundred seventy-nine-f of this article.\n 8. "Set-off" means the reduction by the comptroller of a payment due\nto a contractor by an amount equal to the amount of an unpaid legally\nenforceable debt owed by the contractor to the state of New York.\n 9. "State agency" means any department, board, bureau, commission,\ndivision, office, council, institution, or committee in the executive,\nlegislative, or judicial branches of state government; the city\nuniversity of New York when acting on behalf of any of its senior\ncolleges; the facilities development corporation; or the state\nuniversity construction fund.\n 10. "State funds" means funds held in joint custody by the state\ncomptroller and the state commissioner of taxation and finance.\n