Section 194-A. Additional power of work assignment granted to commissioner of public welfare of Monroe county

When, pursuant to the provisions  of
  subdivision  eight  of  section one hundred ninety-four of this chapter,
  the commissioner of public welfare of Monroe county deems  it  advisable
  to  assign work to an inmate, such work may be assigned and performed in
  or about not only the public home, farm and garden but  also  any  other
  property  maintained  under  his  supervision. The payment of any reward
  pursuant to such subdivision eight shall not be deemed, for the purposes
  of any law, to make the inmate receiving the same  an  employee  of  the
  public home or of the county or city maintaining such home or such other
  property maintained under the commissioner's jurisdiction.