174.753. Director of the arboretum, appointment--powers and duties--director to be only employee of state. - Missouri Statutes

Director of the arboretum, appointment--powers and duties--directorto be only employee of state.

174.753. 1. The director of the Missouri arboretum may be appointed bythe president of the university and approved by the board of regents ofNorthwest Missouri State University.

2. The director of the Missouri arboretum may:

(1) Acquire, archive, process, and disseminate information onhorticultural and botanical resources that are or could be of value to thegovernor, members of the general assembly, and other policy- anddecision-makers in this state;

(2) Act as a representative of the state in horticultural matters aspertains to agriculture, both within and outside the state when necessary orappropriate, or when requested to do so by a proper authority, which shallinclude the legislative and executive branches of this state;

(3) Conduct interpretative programs, investigations, and researchpertaining to horticulture and botanical resources, including, but not limitedto, native woody plant and certain herbaceous plant species distribution inthis state, their relationships to each other and certain faunae and theirenvironment as it pertains to agriculture and horticulture;

(4) Maintain plant inventories on or near the Northwest Missouri StateUniversity campus in natural or contrived ecosystems;

(5) Establish a depository for preservation of live, native, andadaptive plant germ plasm, and the arboretum may act as a distribution sourceof such germ plasm for cooperating affiliated arboretums involved in plantevaluation, teaching and research programs;

(6) Maintain, as part of the statewide arboretum plant collections,plants which are representative of but not necessarily restricted to the floraand plant communities of Missouri, which among other benefits will supportresearch and investigative programs;

(7) Contract with private entities or state agencies to assist intraining of students and the citizenry with respect to native and introducedwoody and herbaceous plant materials and their importance to Missouri. Inconnection therewith, the director may establish a graduate level internshipprogram;

(8) The director shall be the only state employee of the Missouriarboretum.

(L. 1993 S.B. 84 § 14 subsecs. 2, 3)