SECTIONS 6300-6307 - California Statutes

BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE

SECTION 6300-6307

6300. There is in each county of this State a board of law library
trustees, which governs the law library established for the county
under the provisions of this chapter.

6301. (a) Except as otherwise provided by statute, a board of law
library trustees is constituted as follows:
(1) In a county where there are no more than three judges of the
superior court, each of those judges is ex officio a trustee. The
judges may at their option select only one of their number to serve
as a trustee, and in that event they shall appoint two additional
trustees who are residents of the county or members of the State Bar.
(2) In a county where there are more than three judges of the
superior court, the judges of that court shall elect either four or
five of their number to serve as trustees.
(3) Any judge of the superior court who is an ex officio or
elected member may, at the judge's option, designate a resident of
the county or a member of the State Bar to act for the judge as
trustee.
(4) The chair of the board of supervisors is ex officio a trustee,
but the board of supervisors at the request of the chair may appoint
a member of the State Bar, any other member of the board of
supervisors of the county, or a resident of the county to serve as
trustee in place of the chair. The appointment of the person selected
in place of the chair of the board of supervisors shall expire when
a new chair of the board of supervisors is selected, and that
appointment shall not be subject to the provisions of Section 6302.
(5) The board of supervisors shall appoint as many additional
trustees, who are members of the State Bar, as may be necessary to
constitute a board of at least six and not more than seven members.
(b) No more than two law library trustees may be residents of the
county who are not judges of the county, members of the State Bar, or
members of the board of supervisors of the county.

6301.1. Notwithstanding Section 6301, in San Diego County the board
of law library trustees shall be constituted, as follows:
(a) Up to five judges of the superior court, to be elected by and
from the superior court judges of the county. Each superior court
judge so elected shall serve a three-year term. In order to maintain
overlapping terms, those judges holding office as of the date of
unification of the municipal and superior courts of San Diego County
shall remain in office until the expiration of their original terms.
(b) The board of supervisors shall appoint up to four attorneys
resident in the county to the board of law library trustees, to serve
overlapping three-year terms. In order to stagger the appointments,
the board of supervisors shall, in January of 1997, appoint one
attorney to a one-year term, one attorney to a two-year term, and one
attorney to a three-year term; and as each term expires, the new
appointee shall thereafter serve three-year terms. At least one
attorney appointed pursuant to this subdivision shall be a member of
the San Diego County Bar Association.
(c) In the event a trustee cannot serve a full term, the
appointing authority for that individual shall appoint another
qualified person to complete that term. Interim appointments may be
made by the board of law library trustees in accordance with Section
6305.

6301.5. In any county where there are no more than three judges of
the superior court, the board of supervisors, with the concurrence of
the majority of the incumbent judges of the superior court, may
reduce the number of law library trustees to not less than three
members.

6302. Appointments of trustees which are to be made by the board of
supervisors of the county shall be made at the first meeting of the
board of supervisors after the establishment of a law library in the
county, the appointees to serve until the first meeting of the board
of supervisors in the succeeding January. The board shall, at any
such meeting in each succeeding January, appoint such trustees to
serve for the term of one year.

6302.5. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in Los
Angeles County appointments made by judges of the superior court
shall be for a term of four years, and appointments made by the board
of supervisors of the county shall be for a term of two years.
(b) The terms of no more than three judge-appointed members shall
expire in the same year.
(c) The term of one member appointed by the board of supervisors
shall expire each year.

6303. The office of trustee is honorary, without salary or other
compensation.

6304. Each board of law library trustees shall meet regularly each
month on such day as it shall appoint, but if it appoint no day, it
shall meet on the first Tuesday after the first Saturday of each
month, and any board may meet at such other times as it may appoint,
at a place to be designated for that purpose. The president of the
board may call a special meeting at any time for the transaction of
necessary business. A majority of the members constitutes a quorum
for business, and an affirmative vote of a majority of the members is
required to exercise the powers of the board.

6305. A board of law library trustees may remove any trustee,
except an ex officio trustee, who is absent from three consecutive
meetings of the board, and may fill all vacancies that from any cause
occur in the board.

6306. Each board shall appoint one of its number as president.

6307. Each board shall elect a secretary, who shall keep a full
statement and account of all property, money, receipts and
expenditures, and shall keep a record and full minutes in writing,
with the ayes and noes at length, of all proceedings of the board.
Under the secretary's hand, the proceedings may be verified by an
official seal adopted and provided by the board for that purpose.