Section 821. State training courses

The commissioner may provide for career
  and  related, institutional and on-the-job training courses as described
  in section  five  hundred  ninety-nine  of  this  chapter  and  for  the
  administration   of  public  work  projects  for  recipients  of  public
  assistance, and may contract for these purposes with public and  private
  agencies   including   public  and  private  institutions  of  learning,
  employers or other appropriate organizations. He shall  select  for  and
  refer to such training courses unemployed and under-employed persons who
  would  meet  the  conditions  for  approval as specified in section five
  hundred ninety-nine of this chapter. He shall select and refer to public
  work projects all public assistance recipients registered at  employment
  offices   of  the  department  who  are  neither  referred  thereby  for
  employment in the regular economy or for career training,  nor  assigned
  to  public  works projects by social welfare officials. The commissioner
  may  provide  for  such  payments,  either  in  advance  or  by  way  of
  reimbursement,  from  funds  made available to carry out the purposes of
  this article, as he deems necessary.