N.Y. State Fin. Law § 125
Notwithstanding any other provision of law relative to the supervision and control by departments of any of the institutions under the jurisdiction and control of the office of temporary and disability assistance, the department of health, the department of mental hygiene and the department of corrections and community supervision on the first day of January, nineteen hundred thirty-nine and of any institution which shall hereafter be under the jurisdiction of such departments, such department shall have the powers and duties prescribed by this article with respect to such institution. This section shall not impair or affect the powers of the commissioner of general services under the provisions of article eleven of this chapter with respect to estimates made pursuant to this section so far as they constitute a requisition for material, equipment or supplies.
N.Y. State Fin. Law § 125