SECTIONS 18960-18965 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 18960-18965

18960. Every library established pursuant to this chapter shall be
forever free to the inhabitants and nonresident taxpayers of the
municipality, subject always to such rules, regulations, and bylaws
as may be made by boards of library trustees. Any person who violates
any rule, regulations, or bylaw may be fined or excluded from the
privileges of the library.

18961. The board of library trustees and the legislative body of
any neighboring municipality or the board of supervisors of the
county in which the public library is situated, may contract for
lending the books of the library to residents of the county or
neighboring municipality, upon a reasonable compensation to be paid
by the county or neighboring municipality.

18962. The title to all property acquired for the purposes of the
library, when not inconsistent with the terms of its acquisition, or
otherwise designated, vests in the municipality in which the library
is situated, and in the name of the municipal corporation may be sued
for and defended by action at law or otherwise.

18963. Any municipal library which was established and existed on
June 11, 1909, under the provisions of an act entitled "An act to
establish free public libraries and reading rooms," approved April
26, 1880, is continued under the provisions of this chapter and shall
be considered the same as if established under the provisions of
this chapter. This chapter has no application to any library
established or governed by a city charter, and any city charter is in
no manner affected by this chapter.

18964. Any ordinance establishing a library adopted pursuant to
this chapter shall be repealed by the body which adopted it upon
being requested to do so by 51 percent of the electors of the
municipal corporation, as shown by the great register. Upon the
repeal of the ordinance the library is disestablished in the
municipal corporation.

18965. Whenever the governing bodies of two or more cities or
counties consolidate their existing public library services, as a
joint exercise of powers under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section
6500), Division 7, Title 1 of the Government Code, and the ownership
or management of the cities' and counties' library facilities and
other library assets are turned over to a newly formed joint agency,
any boards of public library trustees existing prior to the
consolidation, may be dissolved by ordinance.