New York Libraries.




 
    §  9-111  Libraries. a. The commissioner of correction is empowered to
  set aside in the city prison a sufficient  space  for  the  purposes  of
  installing a library for the inmates. The commissioner of correction may
  do likewise in any other place in which persons are held for infractions
  of the law pending a determination by a court.
    b.   The   commissioner   of   correction   is  authorized  to  accept
  contributions  of   books,   pamphlets   and   periodicals.   All   such
  contributions shall be recorded and catalogued; an account thereof shall
  be  kept  and  a  report  concerning  the  same  shall  be  made  to the
  commissioner of correction at least once in each calendar year.