N.Y. General Municipal Law § 135-a: Workshops in connection with hospitals and facilities for the aged

§ 135-a. Workshops in connection with hospitals and facilities for the

aged.

1. Any municipal corporation maintaining a hospital, sanitorium, home

for the indigent or aged or facility for the chronically ill, may

establish and maintain workshops in connection therewith for the

production of articles or supplies required by such institution, or by

any other institution or department of such municipality. Except in a

supervisory or teaching capacity no person shall be employed in such

workshop or workshops unless he is or shall have been a patient or

resident in such institution. The appropriate municipal authorities may

appropriate or provide funds for the establishment and maintenance of

the said workshops in the same manner as for the establishment and

maintenance of such institutions. Notwithstanding the provisions of the

correction law in relation to the sale of articles manufactured in the

state prisons, the products of such workshops may be used in such

institution or by any other institution or department of such

municipality. Such workshops shall be under the direction and control of

the municipal authority having direction and control of the institution

to which they may be attached.

2. The provisions of the workmen's compensation law, the unemployment

insurance law, and of articles thirteen, nineteen and twenty of the

labor law shall be inapplicable to any patient of a hospital maintained

and operated by any municipal corporation with respect to his

participation in a sheltered workshop program.