§ 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.