Section 12-NEW - [Newly enacted section not yet numbered] [Effective 7/1/2024] [Library district board]The library district board shall constitute a body corporate and politic, possessing the usual powers of a corporation for public purposes and may contract, sue and be sued and acquire, hold and convey real and personal property in accordance with law. Further, the board shall have the power to:
(a) Make and adopt rules and regulations for the administration of the library;(b) purchase or lease a site or sites and to lease or to erect a building or buildings for the use of the library;(c) acquire by purchase, gift or exchange any books, magazines, papers, printed materials, slides, pictures, films, projection equipment, phonograph records and other material and equipment deemed necessary by the board for the maintenance and extension of modern library services;(d) employ a librarian and such other employees as the board deems necessary, to remove such employees and to fix their compensation;(e) establish and maintain a library or libraries and traveling library services within the district or within any other municipality with which service contract arrangements have been made;(f) contract with other libraries or with the governing body of a municipality for the furnishing of library services to the inhabitants of such municipality to the extent and upon such terms as may be agreed upon and to contract with any school board to furnish library services to any school library or to use the library facilities of the public school to supplement the facilities of the public library;(g) receive, accept and administer any moneys appropriated or granted to it by the state or the federal government or any agency or subdivision thereof for the purpose of aiding or providing library services;(h) receive and accept any gift or donation to the library and administer the same in accordance with any provisions thereof. If no provisions are specified, the board shall have the power to hold, invest or re-invest the gift and any dividends, interest, rent or income derived from the gift in the manner the board deems will best serve the interests of the library;(i) receive and accept any grant, gift, donation or appropriated or other funds from the United States government, or its agencies, or any other source whatsoever for the purposes of the library district established under this act;(j) make annual reports to the state librarian and the governing body of the board of education each year for the preceding calendar year showing receipts and disbursements from all funds under its control and showing such statistical information relating to library materials acquired and on hand, number of library users, library services available and other information of general interest as the governing body requires; and(k) place moneys received from sources other than a tax levy for library purposes in a separate fund or funds or in the fund to which the tax levy moneys are credited, unless the grantor or donor directs how and for what purpose the money shall be handled and spent.Added by L. 2024, ch. 107,§ 14, eff. 7/1/2024.