Section 12-109. Activities of mayor and other officers of the city or of any agency as officers or members of an educational corporation chartered by the board of regents of the University of the state of New York to carry out programs to encourage scholastic achievement by pupils within the city

The  provisions  of  sections eleven hundred and two thousand six  hundred four of the charter, section three of the general city  law  and
  any  other  similar provision of law, general, special or local, or rule
  or regulation or rule of law shall not apply to the mayor, the  head  of
  any  city  department or of any agency, or any other officer of the city
  or of any agency in respect to his or her activities as  an  officer  or
  member  of  an educational corporation chartered by the board of regents
  of the University of the state of New York to carry out award, citation,
  scholarship  and  other  programs  in  cooperation  with   participating
  colleges  and  universities designed to encourage scholastic achievement
  on the part of pupils attending public, private  and  parochial  schools
  within  the city of New York or to foster interest in the humanities and
  the  arts  and  to  encourage  participation   in   cultural   programs.
  Notwithstanding  any  other provision of law, general, special or local,
  the mayor, the head of any department of the city or of  any  agency  or
  any  other officer of the city or any agency may, during his or her term
  of office, serve as an officer or member of such a corporation.