N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 216: Automotive-medical research division

§ 216 Automotive-medical research division. The commissioner shall

establish an automotive-medical research division with such facilities

and such expert assistants as are necessary to do medical and

engineering research in the field of motor vehicle safety. The

commissioner shall from time to time make reports and recommendations to

the governor, and the legislature on the findings and studies of the

agency. The commissioner shall be empowered to contract with the

department of health for medical research necessary to carry out the

purposes of this section, and, subject to the provisions of the state

finance law, to take and administer for the state any grant, gift or

bequest to be applied, principal or income, or both, for the purposes

specified in such grant, to the maintenance and operation of a research

program under this section.