N.Y. Education Law § 5711: New York state college of veterinary medicine

§ 5711. New York state college of veterinary medicine. 1. The state

veterinary college, established by chapter one hundred fifty-three of

the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-four, shall hereafter be known as

the New York state college of veterinary medicine at Cornell university,

and shall continue to be under the supervision of the state university

trustees. The object of said college of veterinary medicine shall be: To

give instruction in the normal structure and function of the animal

body, in the pathology, prevention and treatment of animal diseases, and

in all matters pertaining to biomedical science as applied to animals

and correlatively to the human family; and to conduct investigations as

to the nature, prevention and cure of all diseases of animals, including

such as are communicable to man and such as cause epizootics among

animals; and to investigate the economic questions which will contribute

to the more profitable breeding, rearing and utilization of animals.

2. All buildings, furniture, apparatus and other property heretofore

or hereafter erected or furnished by the state for such college of

veterinary medicine shall be and remain the property of the state. The

Cornell university shall have the custody and control of said property,

and, as the representative of the state university trustees, shall, with

whatever state moneys may be received for the purpose, administer the

said college of veterinary medicine as to the establishment of courses

of study, the creation of departments and positions, the determination

of the number and salaries of members of the faculty and other employees

thereof, the appointment and employment thereof, the maintenance of

discipline and as to all matters, pertaining to its educational

policies, activities and operations, including research work.

3. The state university trustees shall maintain general supervision

over the requests for appropriations, budgets, estimates and

expenditures of such college. Cornell university shall receive no

income, profit or compensation for the exercise and performance of the

powers and duties conferred and imposed by this section, but all moneys

received from state appropriations for the said college of veterinary

medicine or derived from other sources in the course of the

administration thereof, shall be kept by said university in a separate

fund from the moneys of the university, and shall be used exclusively

for said New York state college of veterinary medicine. Such moneys as

may be appropriated to be paid to the Cornell university by the state in

any year, to be expended by said university in the administration of

said college of veterinary medicine, shall be payable to the treasurer

of Cornell university in three equal payments to be made on the first

day of October, the first day of January, and the first day of April in

such year, and shall be expended upon vouchers approved by the

chancellor of the state university, as the chief administrative officer

of the state university, or by such authority or authorities in the

state university as shall be designated by the chancellor by a rule or

written direction filed with the comptroller, when and in the manner

authorized by the state university trustees.

4. The said university shall expend such moneys and use such property

of the state in administering said college of veterinary medicine, and

shall submit to the state university trustees during the month of

September in each year, a detailed statement of such expenditures and of

the general operations of the said college of veterinary medicine.

5. The tuition fees charged to students shall be regulated by Cornell

university after consultation with the state university trustees and all

other fees and charges in said college of veterinary medicine shall be

fixed by Cornell university, and the moneys so received shall be

expended for the current expenses of the said college of veterinary

medicine.