The board of library trustees shall make and enforce all rules, regulations, and bylaws necessary for the administration, government, and protection of the library under its management, and all property belonging to the library.
Article 7Powers of Boards of Trustees
Section § 18400
This law explains that the board of library trustees is responsible for creating and enforcing rules and regulations to manage and protect the library and its property.
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Section § 18401
This law explains that the board of library trustees is responsible for managing any trusts set up for the library. They can receive gifts, inheritances, or donations, and hold or manage these assets. If there are no specific instructions on how to handle the assets, the board should use them to benefit the library.
The board of library trustees shall administer any trust declared or created for the library and receive by gift, devise, or bequest, and hold in trust or otherwise, property situated in this state or elsewhere, and where not otherwise provided, dispose of the property for the benefit of the library.
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Section § 18402
The board of library trustees is responsible for setting the responsibilities and authority of the librarian, secretary, and other library staff. They also decide how many people work at the library, hire them, and set their pay. These staff and officers can be kept or let go based on the board's preference.
The board of library trustees shall prescribe the duties and powers of the librarian, secretary, and other officers and employees of the library, determine the number of and appoint all officers and employees, and fix their compensation. The officers and employees shall hold their offices and positions at the pleasure of the boards.
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Section § 18403
The board in charge of library trustees is responsible for buying the books and resources the library needs.
The board of library trustees shall purchase necessary books, journals, publications, and other personal property.
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Section § 18404
This law allows the board of library trustees to buy land and to build, rent, and equip buildings or rooms, as they see fit, to fulfill their duties.
The board of library trustees shall purchase such real property, and erect or rent and equip such buildings or rooms, as in its judgment are necessary to properly carry out the provisions of this chapter.
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Section § 18405
This law says that the library's board of trustees can ask state officials to send them copies of state reports, laws, and publications that aren't already allocated elsewhere.
The board of library trustees may request the appropriate state officials to furnish the library with copies of any and all reports, laws, and other publications of the state not otherwise disposed of by law.
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Section § 18406
The library board has the authority to exchange books with other libraries and let people who don't live in the area borrow books, as long as they follow the rules set by the board.
The board of library trustees shall borrow books from, lend books to, and exchange books with other libraries, and shall allow nonresidents to borrow books upon such conditions as it may prescribe.
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Section § 18407
This section of the law gives the board of library trustees the authority to do whatever is necessary or appropriate to implement the rules and goals of their chapter effectively.
The board of library trustees shall do and perform any and all other acts and things necessary or proper to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
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Section § 18408
Each year by the end of August, library trustees must submit a report to the State Librarian in Sacramento through their librarian. This report should describe the library's condition and the number of books it had on the last day of June. The report can include other useful information, and the State Librarian might ask for additional details or provide forms for comparison purposes.
The board of library trustees shall file through the librarian on or before the last day in August of each year, a report with the State Librarian at Sacramento, giving the condition of its library and the number of volumes contained therein on the 30th day of June preceding. The report shall, in addition to other matters deemed expedient by the board of trustees or the district librarian, contain such statistical and other information as is deemed desirable by the State Librarian. For this purpose the State Librarian may send to the several district librarians instructions or question blanks so as to obtain the material for a comparative study of library conditions in the state.
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Section § 18409
The board of library trustees is responsible for deciding what hours the library will be open for the public to use.
The board of library trustees shall designate the hours during which the library will be open for the use of the public.
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Section § 18410
This law requires that all public libraries in this specific system must be available for public use whenever it is considered a reasonable time.
All public libraries established under this chapter shall be open for the use of the public at all reasonable times.
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Section § 18411
This law allows library boards and local government entities like city councils or county supervisors to make agreements so that people living nearby can borrow books from one another's libraries, as long as the borrowing library is compensated.
Boards of library trustees and the boards of trustees of neighboring library districts, or the legislative bodies of neighboring municipalities, or boards of supervisors of the counties in which public libraries are situated, may contract to lend the books of the libraries to residents of the counties, neighboring municipalities, or library districts, upon a reasonable compensation to be paid by the counties, neighboring municipalities, or library districts.
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