N.Y. General Municipal Law § 87: Support and maintenance of charitable and other institutions

§ 87. Support and maintenance of charitable and other institutions.

Boards of estimate and apportionment, common councils, boards of

aldermen, boards of supervisors, town boards, boards of trustees of

villages and all other boards or officers of counties, cities, towns and

villages, authorized to appropriate and to raise money by taxation and

to make payments therefrom, are hereby authorized, in their discretion,

to appropriate and to raise money by taxation and to make payments from

said moneys, and from any moneys received from any other source and

properly applicable thereto, to charitable, eleemosynary, correctional

and reformatory institutions wholly or partly under private control, for

the care, support and maintenance of their incarcerated individuals and

out-patients, of the moneys which are or may be appropriated therefor;

such payments to be made only for such incarcerated individuals as are

received and retained therein pursuant to regulations established by the

state department of social services or other state department having the

power of inspection thereof. In the absence within the state of adequate

facilities conveniently accessible, payments for the support, care and

maintenance of incarcerated individuals and out-patients may be made to

institutions, wholly or partly under private control, of a charitable or

eleemosynary character, located without the state, which institutions if

located within the state would be subject to the visitation, inspection

and supervision of the department of social services. However, such

payments may be made only to institutions conducted in conformity with

the regulations of such department.