CHAPTER 566

AN ACT to establish an engineering experiment station at the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, to prescribe the functions
and powers of the station and of the governing board of
Virginia Polytechnic Institute in regard thereto; and to
appropriate funds.

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Approved April 8, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. § 1. There is hereby established within the Virginia Poly-
technic Institute a division to be known as the Virginia Engi-
neering Experiment Station, hereinafter referred to as the
Station. Such Station shall be in all respects subject to the con-
trol and supervision of the governing board of the institution.
§ 2. The purpose of the Station shall be to conduct re-
searches and technical investigations and to establish engineer-
ing data which will tend to increase the economy, efficiency, and
safety of the manufacturing, mineral, transportation, construc-
tion, and other engineering and industrial enterprises of the
State and to promote the conservation and economic utilization
of its natural and human resources.

§ 8. Bulletins giving the results of such researches and
investigations shall be published from time to time. Copies of
such bulletins shall be sent to such libraries, state agencies, in-
stitutions, newspapers, industries and persons as may request
them, so far as the means of the Station will permit.

§ 4. The Board of Visitors of the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute shall provide for the administration of such Station
through the regular administrative and fiscal officers of the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and shall make appointments to
the administrative and research staff on recommendation of the
President of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. The Board of
Visitors shall establish regulations (a) to safeguard the inter-
ests of the Station and of its staff members in any patents which
may result from its activities; (b) to fix charges which may be
collected for the sale of bulletins and for testing and research
services; (c) for the licensing of the use of any patents and for
the use of the receipts therefrom.

§ 5. All receipts of the Station shall be deposited to the
credit of the general fund of the State Treasury and are hereby
appropriated to the Virginia Polytechnic Institute to be used
exclusively for the purposes of the Station.