§ 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.