N.Y. Education Law § 5713: New York state agricultural experiment station

§ 5713. New York state agricultural experiment station. 1. The

institution known as the New York agricultural experiment station,

located in the city of Geneva, for the purposes of promoting agriculture

in its various branches by scientific investigation and experiment,

established by chapter five hundred ninety-two of the laws of eighteen

hundred eighty, shall continue to be controlled and managed by Cornell

university under the supervision of the state university trustees. Said

station shall be managed, controlled and administered by Cornell

university, as the representative of the state university trustees, in

the manner and with the powers provided by section fifty-seven hundred

twelve of this chapter. Cornell university shall have the power to

appoint a director and such other scientific and expert workers and

employees deemed necessary to accomplish the objects of such experiment

station. In such station, said university shall, besides conducting

experiments for the promotion of agricultural science, perform and

report to the commissioner of agriculture and markets such analyses and

other scientific work as such commissioner may request and consider to

be necessary for the administration of the provisions of the agriculture

and markets law. The salaries and other expenses incurred by reason of

such analyses and other scientific service shall be paid from funds

appropriated for such purposes.

2. Cornell university is hereby authorized and empowered to publish

from time to time bulletins giving information of the results of

analyses made at such station of any commodity or substance analyzed

thereat and may in like manner publish bulletins containing the results

of such analyses heretofore made and unpublished.

3. In addition to the number of copies otherwise required by law, the

commissioner of agriculture and markets may, with the approval of the

governor, cause to be printed by the state printer such number of copies

of any report of such station heretofore or hereafter made as he deems

sufficient to meet the public demand therefor. The expense of printing

such copies shall be paid out of the appropriation for legislative

printing, as provided by law. Such copies shall be delivered to such

commissioner and sold by him to the public at the actual cost thereof as

determined by the comptroller.

4. The Cornell university is hereby designated as the institution

within this state entitled to receive the benefits of the act of

congress of the United States, approved March second, eighteen hundred

eighty-seven, entitled "An act to establish agricultural experiment

stations in connection with colleges established in the several states,

under the provision of an act approved July second eighteen hundred and

sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto." Such benefits of such

act which this state is authorized thereby to apply to any college,

institution or agricultural experiment station within this state are

applied to Cornell university and this state consents that such

appropriation, money, or benefits to or for the use of this state, or of

any institution within this state, payable under or in pursuance of such

act of congress, shall be paid to the treasurer of Cornell university

who is the officer designated to receive the same, to be used by Cornell

university in such proportion that nine-tenths thereof shall be applied

to the use of the New York state college of agriculture and life

sciences and one-tenth thereof to the New York state agricultural

experiment station at Geneva. Such moneys shall be expended as provided

in such act of congress. The department of taxation and finance shall

keep an account of all moneys received by it in pursuance of such act of

congress in a separate fund to the credit of the Cornell university and

shall pay all moneys immediately upon receipt thereof by it to the

treasurer of such university, upon the warrant of the comptroller issued

upon the order of the said university.