Effective – 28 Aug 1987 182.140. Petition for library tax — rate — election — funds, management and disbursement — increase in rate, procedure — reconsideration. — 1. Whenever voters equal to five percent of the total vote cast for governor at the last election in any city petition the mayor, common council or other […]
Effective – 31 Dec 1985 182.143. Treasurer of board of trustees, duties. — 1. The treasurer of the board of trustees of a library district shall receive and be the custodian of all money belonging to the district from whatever source derived. All funds in the library district derived from local taxation for the library […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1957 182.145. Cities maintaining library prior to August 29, 1955, may levy tax for and maintain library. — Any incorporated city having lawfully established a free public library prior to the effective date of section 182.140, and having had at that time authority to levy and collect a tax for the […]
Effective – 31 Dec 1985 182.150. Election on tax to establish and maintain library, procedure — funds, management and disbursement (cities over 600,000). — 1. In cities of six hundred thousand inhabitants or over when one hundred voters of the city, or the library board of any free public library heretofore established in the city, […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1955 182.170. Trustees, number, appointment. — When any city establishes and maintains a public library under sections 182.140 to 182.301, the mayor or other proper official of the city, with the approval of the legislative branch of the city government, shall proceed to appoint a library board of nine trustees, chosen […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1955 182.180. Terms of office of trustees — removal. — The trustees shall hold office, one-third for one year, one-third for two years and one-third for three years from the first of July following their appointment, and at their first regular meeting shall cast lots for the respective terms; and annually […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1955 182.190. Vacancies, how filled — three terms disqualifies — nepotism forbidden. — Vacancies in the board of trustees, occasioned by removals, resignations or otherwise, shall be reported to the proper official and be filled in like manner as original appointments, except that if the vacancy is an unexpired term, the […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1995 182.200. Board, organization, powers, duties — funds, management and disbursement — exchange services. — 1. The trustees, immediately after appointment, shall meet and organize by the election of one of their number as president, and by the election of such other officers as they may deem necessary. 2. They shall […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1955 182.210. Annual report of librarian, contents, when submitted. — The librarian shall make, within eight weeks after the end of the fiscal year of the library, an annual report to the board of trustees, stating the condition of the library and its services on the last day of the fiscal […]
Effective – 31 Dec 1985 182.221. Treasurer, librarian and board employees — bond, duties (cities 600,000 or more). — 1. The treasurer, the librarian and such other employees as the board may designate shall, before entering upon the discharge of their duties as such, enter into bond or bonds with a corporate surety, to be […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1955 182.230. Library free to public subject to regulations. — Every library and reading room established under sections 182.140 to 182.301 shall be forever free to the use of the inhabitants of the city where located, always subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as the library board may adopt in […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1955 182.240. Council may provide penalties for damage to property. — The governing body of the city may pass ordinances imposing suitable penalties for the punishment of persons committing injury upon the library or the grounds or other property thereof, and for injury to or failure to return any book belonging […]
Effective – 31 Dec 1985 182.260. Library building tax — duration, rate, election — funds, management and disbursement (cities 10,000 or over). — Whenever in any city which has decided or shall hereafter decide to establish and maintain a free public library under the provisions of sections 182.140 to 182.301, voters equal to five percent […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1955 182.270. Plans — contracts for library building (cities 10,000 or over). — When it has been determined at the election to provide for the erection of a free public library building, the board of trustees shall proceed to have plans and specifications of a public library building prepared, shall take […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1955 182.280. Board may sell lands, when — exceptions (cities 10,000 or over). — Whenever the board of trustees of any public library acquires a lot or tract of land, and the board determines that it is not judicious to erect the library building upon the lot, the board may sell […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1990 182.291. City-county library, how organized — board of trustees, duties — effect of merger on assets and liabilities — funds, how handled — budget required. — 1. After the establishment of a county library district as provided in section 182.010, the board of trustees of any city library within the […]
Effective – 31 Dec 1985 182.296. Treasurer, librarian and board employees — bond, duties (city and county library). — 1. The treasurer, the librarian and such other employees as the board may designate shall, before entering upon the discharge of their duties as such, enter into bond or bonds with a corporate surety, to be […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1955 182.301. City or city-county library may contract for cooperative service. — Any city library board or any city-county library board may contract for cooperative service with the body having control of a city library or school library or a county or other public library or any other library within the […]
