261 – Incorporation.
§ 261. Incorporation. Within one month after taking office, the first board of trustees of any such public library or Indian library shall apply to the regents for a charter in accordance with the vote establishing the library.
262 – Use of Public and Indian Libraries.
§ 262. Use of public and Indian libraries. Every library established under section two hundred fifty-five of this chapter shall be forever free to the inhabitants of the municipality or district or Indian reservation, which establishes it, subject always to rules of the library trustees who shall have authority to exclude any person who wilfully […]
263 – Reports.
§ 263. Reports. Every library or museum, other than a school library, which enjoys any exemption from taxation or receives state aid or other privilege not usually accorded to business corporations shall make the report required by section two hundred fifteen of this chapter, and such report shall relieve the institution from making any report […]
264 – Injuries to Property.
§ 264. Injuries to property. Whoever intentionally injures, defaces or destroys any property belonging to or deposited in any incorporated library, reading-room, museum or other educational institution, shall be punished by imprisonment in a state prison for not more than three years, or in a county jail for not more than one year, or by […]
265 – Detention.
§ 265. Detention. Whoever wilfully detains any book, newspaper, magazine, pamphlet, manuscript or other property belonging to any public or incorporated library, reading-room, museum or other educational institution, for thirty days after notice in writing to return the same, given after the expiration of the time which by the rules of such institution, such article […]
265-A – Defense of Lawful Detention.
§ 265-a. Defense of lawful detention. In any action for false arrest, false imprisonment, unlawful detention, defamation of character, assault, trespass or invasion of civil rights brought by any person by reason of having been detained on or in the immediate vicinity of the premises of a public library or association library for the purpose […]
266 – Transfer of Libraries.
§ 266. Transfer of libraries. By vote similar to that required by section two hundred fifty-five of this chapter any municipality or district or tribal government or combination of districts, or by action of its trustees at a meeting duly held any association library, incorporated or registered by the regents, may, when such vote or […]
267 – Local Neglect.
§ 267. Local neglect. If the local authorities of any library supported wholly or in part by state money fail to provide for the support of such library and the public usefulness of its books, the regents shall in writing notify the trustees of said library what is necessary to meet the state’s requirements, and […]
268 – Abolition.
§ 268. Abolition. Any library established by public vote of any municipality or district, or by vote of the common council of any city, or by vote of the board of trustees of any village, or by action of school authorities, or by vote of the tribal government of an Indian reservation, or under section […]
269 – Library Extension Service.
§ 269. Library extension service. By such means, in such manner and upon such conditions as the regents may prescribe, they shall make provision for a library extension service for the promotion, organization and supervision of free libraries; for supplying information, advice, assistance or instruction on any matter pertaining to library methods or practice or […]