N.Y. General Municipal Law § 139-c: Sheltered workshops

§ 139-c. Sheltered workshops. Any municipal corporation may equip and

maintain sheltered workshops established by any non-profit organization

chartered by the board of regents and approved by the state education

department for the purpose of providing suitable training and retraining

for work for persons who, because of age, chronic physical illness or

impairments, cannot find training, retraining or remunerative work

elsewhere. The state education department shall make such rules and

regulations for the operation and use of such sheltered workshops as may

be necessary to carry out the purposes of this act, except that such

rules and regulations shall not contravene rules and regulations to be

made by the department of labor with regard to wages, hours of work,

conditions of work and other matters now under the jurisdiction of such

department.