§ 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.