The Secretary of Transportation and the Commissioner of Buildings and General Services, or their designees, shall develop and promote a program of joint purchasing with the municipalities by which purchases of equipment by the State are combined, where possible, with purchases of equipment by any municipality electing to participate in order to obtain volume purchasing discounts and other purchasing benefits. (Added 1985, No. 187 (Adj. Sess.), § 3; amended 1987, No. 89, § 314c; 1995, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 4(a), eff. May 6, 1996.)