Section 5-509. Items to be included in annual budget

There may annually be
  included in the budget:
    1. A sum not exceeding eight  thousand  dollars  to  be  paid  to  the
  trustees  of  the seventh regiment armory building, as an equivalent and
  in lieu of the rental of an armory for such regiment, to be  applied  to
  the  preservation,  maintenance  and improvement of the armory building,
  such sum to be paid in the month of January in each year.
    2.  The  amount  necessary  for  the  maintenance  of  the  buildings,
  instruments and equipment of:
    a. The meteorological and astronomical observatory.
    b. The American museum of natural history.
    c.  The metropolitan museum of art, not exceeding ninety-five thousand
  dollars.
    d. The Brooklyn institute of arts and sciences.
    3. Such sums to any hospitals, charitable, eleemosynary,  correctional
  or  reformatory  institution, wholly or partly under private control for
  the care, support and maintenance of its  inmates,  and  for  the  care,
  support, maintenance and secular education of inmates of orphan asylums,
  protectories,  homes for dependent children or correctional institutions
  and any other sum or sums which may heretofore have been duly authorized
  by law to be paid within the city of New York or any  part  thereof  for
  the  education  and support of the blind, the deaf and dumb and juvenile
  delinquents and such sums other than salaries for reimbursement  to  any
  duly  incorporated  charitable  institution  or  society employed by the
  commissioner of welfare in the placing out, supervision and transfer  of
  children  who are public charges; such payments to be made only for such
  inmates  as  are  received  and  retained  therein  pursuant  to   rules
  established  by  the  state board of social welfare. The city may in any
  year, and from time to time, increase or diminish, the sum authorized to
  be paid to any such institution, association,  corporation  or  society.
  The  final estimate shall specify each institution by its corporate name
  and the sum to be paid thereto, with a reference to the laws authorizing
  the appropriation, and the comptroller is authorized to pay the  sum  to
  such  institution  upon its appearing to his or her satisfaction in such
  manner as he or she shall prescribe that the expenditure thereof by  the
  institution  is  lawful  and  proper. Appropriations shall be made under
  this section to any corporation only if the mayor, or the  president  of
  the  borough  in which the chief office of such corporation is situated,
  is notified of all meetings of its board of management, and is empowered
  to attend the same or designate in writing some person to do so  in  his
  or her behalf; but this shall not be construed as impairing any existing
  powers  of  visitation vested in the supreme court or the state board of
  social welfare, or any provisions of law requiring  statements  by  such
  corporations as to their affairs.
    4.  A  sum  for  the due observance of Memorial day to be expended for
  such purpose.
    5. A sum as may be necessary to pay the salaries  of  county  officers
  within  the counties of New York, Kings, Bronx, Queens and Richmond, and
  likewise all other expenses within such counties and each of them  which
  are county as distinguished from city charges and expenses.
    6.  A  sum  sufficient,  as determined by the council and the board of
  estimate, to maintain the rates of fare of the  New  York  city  transit
  authority existing on January first, nineteen hundred sixty-six.