Section 5713. New York state agricultural experiment station  


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  • 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      of such analyses heretofore made and unpublished.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.