N.Y. Labor Law § 821: State training courses

§ 821. State training courses. The commissioner may provide for career

and related, institutional and on-the-job training courses as described

in section five hundred ninety-nine of this chapter and for the

administration of public work projects for recipients of public

assistance, and may contract for these purposes with public and private

agencies including public and private institutions of learning,

employers or other appropriate organizations. He shall select for and

refer to such training courses unemployed and under-employed persons who

would meet the conditions for approval as specified in section five

hundred ninety-nine of this chapter. He shall select and refer to public

work projects all public assistance recipients registered at employment

offices of the department who are neither referred thereby for

employment in the regular economy or for career training, nor assigned

to public works projects by social welfare officials. The commissioner

may provide for such payments, either in advance or by way of

reimbursement, from funds made available to carry out the purposes of

this article, as he deems necessary.