33 - Contracts for supplies and commodities needed in the administration of assistance.

§   33.    Contracts  for  supplies  and  commodities  needed  in  the  administration of assistance.  The department may    (a)   make agreements for  supplies  and  commodities  needed  in  the  administration  of  assistance and care, under which local welfare units  may, subject to the approval of the department, purchase  such  supplies  and commodities; and    (b)  in accordance with requisitions duly approved by the commissioner  of general services, purchase as the agent of local welfare units and on  their  request,  supplies or commodities needed in the administration of  assistance and care and  make  payments  therefor  after  making  proper  deductions  from  state  reimbursements  due the local units which avail  themselves of the provisions of this subdivision.