N.Y. Pub. Bldgs. Law § 152
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to academic buildings, dormitories and other facilities constructed, acquired, reconstructed, rehabilitated or improved for the use of the state university of New York or any state-operated institution or statutory or contract college under the jurisdiction thereof or for the use of the students, faculty and staff of the state university or any such state-operated institution or statutory or contract college under the jurisdiction thereof, and their families, or to contracts entered into by the state university construction fund or the state university trustees pursuant to article eight-a of the education law or to real property held in the name of the state for purposes of the state university of New York or a state-operated institution or statutory or contract college under the jurisdiction thereof; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect the power of any officer, department, board, commission, bureau, division, public benefit corporation, agency or instrumentality of the state from constructing, acquiring, reconstructing, rehabilitating or improving such facilities in accordance with the provisions of article eight-a of the education law if duly authorized by law; and provided further that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect the power of the state university trustees to enter into any short form contract for minor work of construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair of any such facilities operated under the jurisdiction of such trustees in accordance with the provisions of section twenty of this chapter.
N.Y. Pub. Bldgs. Law § 152