Art. 14.] Miscellajsteous Provisions 1971 



willows grown for baskets or cuttings or for nnrsery or other com- 

 mercial purposes. The jirovisions of this and the preceding sec- Exceptions. 

 tion shall not apjjly to florists' greenhonse jilants, flowers or cut- 

 tings commonly known as greenhouse stock, and no certificate shall 

 be required for stock so shipped into the state that its sale and 

 shipment become either interstate commerce traffic or commerce 

 with foreign nations. (As amended by chapter 798 of the Laws 

 of 1911.) 



§ 306. The New York agricultural experiment station. The in- 

 stitution known as the New York agricultural experiment station. 



Location. 



located in the city of Geneva, for the purpose of promoting agri- 

 culture in its various branches by scientific investigation and 

 experiment, shall continue under the control and management of control, 

 a board of trustees. Such board of trustees shall be known as the 

 board of control of the New York agricultural experiment station 

 and shall consist of nine members, except as hereinafter provided. 

 The governor and commissioner of agriculture shall be members Ex-offlcio 



members. 



of the board by virtue of their offices. The governor shall appoint Appomt- 



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the other seven members of such board, whose term of office shall board. 

 be three years, provided, however, that the present members of 

 the board of control shall continue in office until the expiration of 

 the terms to which they were appointed. Such board of control, Quorum, 

 of which five members shall constitute a quorum, shall hold an 

 annual meeting and such other meetings from time to time as they Meetings. 

 may deem necessary and shall annually elect a president from 

 their own number, and appoint a secretary and treasurer, to hold 

 their offices during the pleasure of the board. Such board of con- ^"J^^'" °* 

 trol shall have general management of the station and shall ap- 

 point a director to have oversight and management of the experi- Director, 

 ments and investigations and other scientific and expert work 

 which shall be deemed necessary to accomplish the objects of said 

 institution, and such board may employ competent and suitable 

 chemists and other experts and persons necessary for carrying on chemists 

 the work of the station, and shall fix the compensation of all 

 persons connected with the work of said station. Said station 

 shall, besides conducting experiments and investigations for the 

 promotion of agricultural science, perform and report to the com- 



etc. 



