CHAPTER 237

An Act to amend and reenact § 28.1-196 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to powers of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. CH 725)

Approved March 13, 1968

- Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 28.1-196 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 28.1-196. Use of services of other agencies; solicitation, etc., of
funds; taking fish and other marine organisms.—In conducting its studies
and investigations under the preceding section (§ 28.1-195) the Institute
is authorized to obtain and make use of the services of any agency,
public or private. The Institute is further authorized, with the prior written
approval of the Governor and subject to * any other provisions of law,
to solicit, accept and make use of such funds as are made available from
any source, public and private, for the purpose of furthering the studies
and investigations and to work and cooperate with appropriate State
agencies and with similar agencies and institutions in other states and
the United States in conducting the work authorized hereby. The Insti-
tute, its officers, agents, employees, or persons operating under its direc-
tion may take or cause to be taken for scientific purposes, any fish or
other marine organism at any time from the waters of Virginia, and
with the consent of the Commission of Fisheries, may cause or permit
to be sold such fishes or parts of fishes so taken as may not be necessary
for such purposes.