A. The principal administrative officer of the Water Center shall be an executive director who shall be appointed by the president of the University, subject to the approval of the board. The executive director shall be under the supervision of the president of the University.
B. The executive director shall exercise all powers imposed upon him by law, carry out the specific duties imposed upon him by the president of the University, and develop appropriate policies and procedures, with the advice of the Virginia Water Resources Research Center Statewide Advisory Board, for (i) identifying priority research problems; (ii) collaborating with the General Assembly; federal, state, and local governmental agencies; and water user groups in the formulation of its research programs; (iii) selecting projects to be funded; and (iv) disseminating information and transferring technology designed to help resolve water and related land problems of the Commonwealth. The executive director shall employ such personnel and secure such services as may be required to carry out the purposes of this article and expend appropriated funds and accept moneys for cost-sharing on projects funded with federal and private funds.
1982, c. 379, §§ 23-135.7:11, 23-135.7:12; 2016, c. 588; 2017, c. 314.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 23.1 - Institutions of Higher Education; Other Educational and Cultural Institutions
Chapter 26 - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
§ 23.1-2600. Corporate name; name of the University
§ 23.1-2602. Meetings; officers; committees
§ 23.1-2603. Powers and duties
§ 23.1-2604. Investment of endowment funds, endowment income, etc.
§ 23.1-2607. Purchase of electric power and energy
§ 23.1-2609. Administration of the Division
§ 23.1-2610. Duties of the Service, the Program, and the Station
§ 23.1-2611. Personnel; local units
§ 23.1-2612. Division; funding sources
§ 23.1-2613. The Division and the Program; appropriations by the General Assembly
§ 23.1-2614. The Division; appropriations by local governing bodies
§ 23.1-2615. Station; soil survey
§ 23.1-2616. Station; agricultural survey
§ 23.1-2617. Hampton Roads and Eastern Shore Agricultural Research and Extension Centers established
§ 23.1-2618. Centers; function
§ 23.1-2619. Centers; Advisory board of directors
§ 23.1-2620. Centers; executive director
§ 23.1-2621. The Division and the Program; reports
§ 23.1-2622. Construction of acts relating to the Service and the Station
§ 23.1-2623. Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research established
§ 23.1-2624. Control and supervision
§ 23.1-2625. Executive director
§ 23.1-2626. Powers and duties of the Center
§ 23.1-2627. Virginia Coal Research and Development Advisory Board
§ 23.1-2628. Virginia Water Resources Research Center established
§ 23.1-2629. Control and supervision
§ 23.1-2630. Functions, powers, and duties
§ 23.1-2631. Executive director
§ 23.1-2632. Virginia Water Resources Research Center Statewide Advisory Board
§ 23.1-2633. Virginia Center for Housing Research established
§ 23.1-2634. Functions, powers, and duties
§ 23.1-2635. Control and supervision
§ 23.1-2638. Institutions receiving interest accruing on proceeds of land scrip
§ 23.1-2639. Institutions receiving money allotted to Commonwealth under act of Congress
§ 23.1-2640. Experimental farms