The governing body of any municipality is hereby empowered to provide by resolution for the establishment and maintenance of a commissionary for the sale of commodities to patients, inmates, visitors of patients and inmates, and employees of any municipal institution, under rules to be adopted by the governing body. The cost of establishing the commissary may be defrayed out of the funds appropriated for current maintenance. Any profit accruing therefrom may be used by the board, committee, department or division of the municipal government administering the said municipal institution, for the recreational entertainment or other like purpose of the patients or inmates of the particular municipal institution.

L.1956, c. 67, p. 153, s. 2, eff. June 6, 1956.