Section 13-E. Expenses of meeting rooms for veterans' and other organizations

Any city may appropriate and make  available  a  sum  of
  money  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars  in  any one year for each
  chapter, post, camp or garrison, as the case may be, of the  Grand  Army
  of  the  Republic,  the  United  Spanish  War  Veterans, the Veterans of
  Foreign Wars, the American Legion, the Disabled American  Veterans,  the
  Military Order of the Purple Heart, Inc., the Army and Navy Union of the
  United  States,  the  Marine  Corps League, AMVETS, American Veterans of
  World War II, the Italian American War Veterans of  the  United  States,
  Incorporated,  Veterans  of  World War I of the United States of America
  Department of New York, Inc., Polish-American Veterans of World War  II,
  Amsterdam,  N.  Y.,  Inc.,  Polish-American  Veterans  of  World War II,
  Schenectady, N. Y., Inc., Polish Legion of American Veterans, Inc.,  the
  Jewish  War  Veterans  of  the  United  States,  Inc.,  the Catholic War
  Veterans, Inc., Masonic War Veterans of the State of New York, Inc., the
  American Gold Star Mothers, Inc., Regular  Veterans  Association,  Inc.,
  the  Viet  Nam  Veterans  of  America,  the  Eastern  Paralyzed Veterans
  Association,  the  369th  Veterans  Association,  Inc.,  the  Tri-County
  Council  of  Vietnam  Veterans,  the  National  Congress of Puerto Rican
  Veterans, the Navy Seabee Veterans of America, the Korean  War  Veterans
  Association,  the  Women's  Army Corps Veterans Association, or the Navy
  Club of the U.S.A., located within its boundaries, for  the  purpose  of
  assisting  in  defraying the rental or maintenance expenses, or both, of
  rooms for the holding of meetings of any such post,  camp,  garrison  or
  chapter.   All   sums   hereby   authorized  to  be  expended  shall  be
  appropriated, raised and expended, in the  same  manner  as  moneys  for
  other  municipal  expenses  in  the  city  are  appropriated, raised and
  expended.