Section 29-6-3. – Eligibility requirements — Municipalities.
§ 29-6-3. Eligibility requirements — Municipalities. (a) To qualify for state aid under § 29-6-2, a city or town shall: (1) Appropriate from local tax revenues an amount not less than the amount appropriated the previous year from local tax revenues and expended for library operating expenses. The appropriation would exclude any state funds received […]
Section 29-6-4. – Library councils.
§ 29-6-4. Library councils. In cities or towns having more than one free public library, the boards of trustees, or other governing bodies of the libraries in the city or town, may appoint an interlibrary committee to include the principal librarian of each of the libraries and one other representative of each of the libraries, […]
Section 29-6-5. – Cooperative library services.
§ 29-6-5. Cooperative library services. (a) Any city or town may enter into an agreement with another city or town, or more than one other, to establish or maintain free public library service, or one or more aspects thereof to citizens therein, and those agreements for cooperative library service shall be valid when approved and […]
Section 29-6-6. – Construction and capital improvements.
§ 29-6-6. Construction and capital improvements. The office of library and information services may cause to be paid to a city or town treasurer, or to any free public library in the state, a grant-in-aid for the construction and capital improvement of any free public library as the chief of library services may determine is […]
Section 29-6-7. – State supported institutions.
§ 29-6-7. State supported institutions. For each state supported residential institution and the school for the deaf, the state’s share under this program to support library services for residents or students shall be gradually increased until the state’s share in fiscal year 2000 is equal to at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the amount appropriated […]
Section 29-5-3. – “State library agency” defined.
§ 29-5-3. “State library agency” defined. As used in § 29-5-1, “state library agency”, with reference to this state, means the chief of library services or his or her designated agent. History of Section.P.L. 1963, ch. 22, § 1; P.L. 1972, ch. 144, § 4; P.L. 2016, ch. 511, art. 2, § 25.
Section 29-4-3. – City or town appropriations.
§ 29-4-3. City or town appropriations. Any town or city not owning a free public library may annually, by the majority vote of the electors of the town qualified to vote and voting on the proposition, or by vote of the city council of the city, appropriate such sum or sums as it shall deem […]
Section 29-4-4. – Gifts.
§ 29-4-4. Gifts. In case any library, or funds for the establishment thereof, may be offered to any city or town on the condition that the library shall be maintained as a free public library, the city council of any city, or town council of any town, is hereby authorized to accept this gift in […]
Section 29-4-5. – Appointment of board of trustees.
§ 29-4-5. Appointment of board of trustees. Whenever any city or town shall establish a free public library, or shall become possessed, as provided in this chapter, of any free public library, the city council or town council, as the case may be, shall proceed to elect a board of trustees, to consist of not […]
Section 29-4-6. – Powers and duties of trustees.
§ 29-4-6. Powers and duties of trustees. The trustees shall take possession of the library, and shall, thereafter, be the legal guardians and custodians of the library. They shall provide suitable rooms for the library, arrange for the proper care of the library, choose one or more competent persons as librarians and fix their compensation, […]