12-1228. Penalties as to library property authorized. The governing body of a municipality maintaining a library shall have power to pass laws or ordinances imposing suitable penalties for the punishment of injury committed to library buildings or other property and for injury to or failure to return any book or other library material belonging to […]
12-1229. Use of privately owned books or collections. The library board of any library may authorize any circulating library, reading matter or work of art belonging to private person, association or corporation, or loaned by any library or public institution, to be deposited in a library building, and to be drawn or used outside the […]
12-1230. Contracts for library service; tax levy, use of proceeds. The governing body of any municipality not maintaining a library may contract with any library for the furnishing of library service to such municipality, and to pay the costs of such library service the municipality is hereby authorized to levy a tax in the amount […]
12-1231. Regional library; resolution; petition; election; board; certain cooperating township libraries to be maintained as regional libraries. Any two (2) or more adjoining counties, or any two (2) or more adjoining townships, may establish and maintain a regional library as provided in this act. A proposition to establish and maintain a regional library may be […]
12-1232. Same; appointment of board; terms; vacancies; eligibility. The library board of a regional library shall consist of six appointed members and, in addition thereto, the official head of each participating county or township shall appoint a member of the governing body to be an ex officio member with the same powers as appointed members. […]
12-1233. Same; powers and duties. Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, the powers and duties of regional library boards, the powers and duties of officers and members of such boards, and the manner and procedure by which such powers and duties are to be exercised, shall be as provided herein for library boards generally. History: […]
12-1234. Same; tax levies; allocation of costs. (a) Each county or township participating in a regional library is authorized to, and shall annually levy a tax for the maintenance of the library in a sum the library board determines within the limitations fixed by law. Except as provided by subsection (b), the costs of maintaining […]
12-1235. Same; withdrawal of county or township; election; division of property. After a county or township has participated in a regional library for not less than three (3) years, such county or township may vote to establish and maintain a separate library, and upon so voting shall be deemed to have withdrawn from the regional […]
12-1236. Establishment of library districts; petition; agreement to transfer city property to district, when; resolution; election, notice and conduct. Any one or more cities of the third class is hereby authorized to join with any one or more townships or portions of one or more townships in one or more counties in the creation of […]
12-1237. Same; election canvass; annual tax levy. The board of county commissioners shall, at its next meeting following the holding of such election, canvass the results of said election. If a majority of the votes cast at such election on such proposition shall be in the affirmative, the board of county commissioners shall forthwith establish […]
12-1238. Same; election of directors; notice. Upon the establishment of such library district the county clerk of the county within which such library district is located, shall cause a publication notice to be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in said library district, stating that a meeting […]
12-1239. Same; annual meeting; time of. An annual meeting of the qualified voters of such library district shall be held on the first Tuesday in March of each year at 2 o’clock p.m. At the first annual meeting a majority of the qualified voters present may determine whether the subsequent annual meetings shall convene at […]
12-1240. Same; notice of annual meeting. It shall be the duty of the board of directors to give notice of every annual meeting by causing a notice to be published once each week for two (2) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in said library district. The last publication of such notice to […]
12-1241. Same; persons entitled to vote; officers of board; terms of directors; vacancies. Any person who shall have been in good faith a resident of said library district for thirty (30) days prior to the date of any district meeting or other election and who possesses the qualifications of a voter at a general election […]
12-1242. Same; powers of board of directors. The library board of a library established as herein provided shall constitute a body corporate and politic, possessing the usual powers of a corporation for public purposes under the name and style of: “library district No. ____, county of ____, state of Kansas.” And under such name may […]
12-1243. Same; regular and special meetings. The library board shall fix the date and place of its regular meetings, and special meetings may be called by the chairman of said board, and shall be called by the chairman upon the written request of a majority of the board members. Written notice stating the time and […]
12-1244. Same; election on building, equipment and site; bonds. The board of directors of said library district shall have authority to call an election of said district for the purpose of building, erecting and equipping a library building and procuring a site therefor and may issue bonds of such district for the purpose of paying […]
12-1245. Same; powers and duties. The directors of said library district shall have all of the powers and duties vested in library boards under the provisions of K.S.A. 12-1225. History: L. 1965, ch. 145, § 10; June 30.
12-1246. Same; bond of treasurer; records and reports. The treasurer of said library district shall give bond in an amount fixed and approved by the board of said library district for the safekeeping and due disbursement of all funds which may come into his or her hands as such treasurer. Said bond shall be filed […]
12-1247. Library districts; tax levy, procedure to increase levy; certification to county clerk. (a) Except as provided by subsection (b), the directors of the library district, as the governing body thereof and in the same manner as required by law applying to other taxing units, shall levy annually a tax not to exceed 1.5 mills […]
