§ 260-c. Reduction of salaries for tax-deferred annuities. The board of trustees of a library system, cooperative library system, public library or free association library, in its discretion, may enter into a written agreement with any of its employees to reduce the annual salary, as otherwise earned and payable by law, of such employee for […]
§ 260-d. Board of trustees continuing education. 1. Beginning January first, two thousand twenty-three, each member, elected or appointed, of a board of trustees of a public, free association or Indian library shall be required to complete a minimum of two hours of trustee education annually, from a provider approved by the commissioner on the […]
§ 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 […]
§ 270. Acceptance of surplus library books or property. The state education department is hereby authorized to cooperate with the United States commissioner of education, the war assets administration, and/or other federal officers and officials in the administration of any statute heretofore or hereafter enacted for the disposal of surplus library books or property, and […]
§ 271. Apportionment of state aid to Indian libraries. Any Indian library chartered by the regents or in the absence of such library any tribal government contracting for service from a chartered and registered library or approved library system, shall be entitled to receive state aid during each calendar year consisting of the following amounts: […]
§ 272. Conditions under which library systems are entitled to state aid. 1. Public library systems. a. The term “public library system” as used in this article means: (1) A library established by one or more counties. (2) A group of libraries serving an area including one or more counties in whole or in part. […]
§ 273. Apportionment of state aid to libraries and library systems. 1. Any public library system providing service under an approved plan during a calendar year shall be entitled to receive during that calendar year state aid consisting of the following amounts: a. An annual grant of: (1) Ten thousand dollars where the library system […]
* § 273-a. State aid for library construction. ** 1. State aid shall be provided for up to fifty percent of the total project approved costs, excluding feasibility studies, plans or similar activities, for projects for the installation and infrastructure of broadband services, and for the acquisition of vacant land and the acquisition, construction, renovation […]
§ 274. Use and care of school library. The school library shall be a part of the school equipment and shall be kept in the school building at all times. Such library shall be devoted to the exclusive use of the school, except as otherwise provided by the rules of the commissioner of education and […]
§ 275. Librarians of school libraries. In a school district maintaining an academic department or high school the board of education may employ, and fix the compensation of, a person to act as school librarian who may be engaged for all or a part of the time in performance of the duties of the position […]
§ 276. Existing rules continued in force. All existing provisions of law and rules established by the commissioner of education for the management of public school libraries shall hold good as to the management of such school libraries until altered by or in pursuance of law.
