§ 736. Nonresident privileges.-The trustees may extend the privileges of a public library to nonresidents either with or with

out fee for its use.

[Univ. Law, § 42, in part, rewritten, without intended change of substance.]

§ 737. Neglect by library trustees.-If the trustees of a library

supported wholly or in part by public money fail to provide for

its support and public usefulness, the University shall notify them in writing what is necessary to meet state requirements. On the service of such notice the rights of the library to further grants of money or books from the state shall be suspended till the University certifies that state requirements have been met. [Univ. Law, § 46, in part, rewritten, but without intended change in substance.]

§ 738. When regents may take control of library.-If the trustees of a public library refuse or neglect to comply with such requirements within sixty days after service of the notice, the regents may remove them from office, and thereafter all books and other library property, wholly or in part paid for from state money, shall be under full and direct control of the regents who, as seems best for the public interests of that community, may appoint new trustees to carry on the library, or may store it, or distribute its books to other libraries.

Univ. Law, § 46, in part, rewritten, but without intended change in substance.]

§ 739. Abolition of public library.-A public library may be

abolished only on adoption of a proposition therefor at two suc

The re

cessive annual elections. If the proposition is adopted, a certified copy thereof shall be transmitted to the University, which shall forthwith appraise the library property. The trustees shall thereupon deliver to the University books or other property equal in value to the aggregate sum received by the library from the state or from other sources as gifts for public use. maining books and property shall be disposed of as directed in the proposition abolishing the library But if the entire library property does not exceed in value the amount of such gifts, it may be transferred to the University for public use, and the trustees shall thereupon be freed from further responsibility. No abolition of a public library shall be lawful till the University grants a certificate that its assets have been properly distributed and its abolition completed in accordance with law.

[Univ. Law, § 51, as amended by L. 1895, chap. 859, § 7, rewritten, but without intended change of substance.]

§ 740. Abandoned libraries.-Books or other property belonging to any library which have not been in direct charge of a duly appointed librarian within one year, shall be deemed abandoned by the owners, and may be taken and thereafter owned by any public library in the same locality which has the University's written permission to collect such books, and to administer them for the benefit of the public. Any person, associa tion or corporation having possession of books or other property belonging to any school, district, or other library for public use, except books regularly borrowed and charged for a period not yet

expired, shall deliver the same on demand to the legally appointed librarian of such library, or of the public library duly authorized to take the same as provided in this section, and wilful neglect or refusal to comply with this provision shall be a misdemeanor. If a school library is so abandoned the school authorities may receive for use of the school, dictionaries, cyclopedias and books relating to the science and practice of teaching, if they request such books within thirty days after they are taken by the public library.

[Con. School Law, tit. 13, § 6, rewritten, but without intended change in substance.]

(Page 95, § 6.)

§ 741. Transfer of libraries.-The whole or any part of a library with its appurtenances may, with the approval of the University, be transferred to a library under its supervision. A public library can be so transferred only by the authorities by which it might be established, and on a like vote, but other libraries may be transferred by their trustees. The library to which such transfer is made shall thereupon, unless otherwise provided by ordinance or specified in the transfer, be entitled to receive all money, books or other property from the state or other sources to which such library so transferred would have been entitled but for such transfer, and the trustees or other body making the transfer shall thereafter be relieved of all responsibility as to property thus transferred.

[Univ. Law, § 45, rewritten, but without intended change in substance.]

§ 742. State aid to public libraries.-Library money granted for the benefit of libraries for free public use shall be apportioned by the University in accordance with its rules, and no part of such money shall be spent for books, except those approved by it and no locality shall share in the grants unless it shall raise and use for the same purpose an equal amount by taxation or otherwise; nor shall any library not registered by the University share in the grants. If any part of the apportionment is not payable directly to local library trustees, the University shall file with the comptroller vouchers showing that it has been spent in accordance with law exclusively for approved books, or other proper expenses incurred for the benefit of libraries for free public use. Books paid for by the state shall be subject to return to the University whenever the library shall neglect or refuse to conform to the ordinances under which it secured them.

[Based on Univ. Law, § 50, but mostly new.]

§ 743. Taxes.-Taxes in addition to those otherwise authorized may be voted by any municipality or district, or by the tax levying authority thereof except in a common school district, to establish, maintain or aid a public or free library therein, and fixing the maximum rate per centum which may be raised therefor annually on the property of such municipality or district, as appears by the last corrected assessment-rolls thereof. Within one year after such vote, and annually thereafter, unless the vote is rescinded or modified, the trustees of every such library shall

submit to the lax levying authority a copy of their last report to the University, with a detailed statement, verified by their presiding officer, of the amount required, after deducting money on hand and the estimated income from other sources, to maintain the library for the ensuing year, and the amount so required, not exceeding such maximum rate per centum, shall be levied and collected for the purpose named. Such vote if by the people may be rescinded or modified only by action at two consecutive annual elections or district meetings; if the rate percentum was fixed by vote of the tax levying authority, it may be rescinded or modified only by action at two annual meetings thereof. All sums received from taxation or otherwise for library purposes shall be paid to the treasurer of the library trustees and kept by him as a separate library fund, and expended under the direction of such

trustees.

[Based on Univ. Law, § 38, mostly new.]

§ 744. Local aid to free libraries.—The same authorities in the same manner herein provided for establishing and maintaining a public library, may grant aid to a registered free library under supervision of the regents, but such aid for the circulating department shall not exceed ten cents for each volume of circulation of the past year, certified by the University as of such a character as to merit a grant of public money. Aid may also be granted for the reference department, and to libraries of books for the blind 'without regard to circulation.

[Univ. Law, § 37, in part, rewritten, but without intended change of substance. The last sentence is new.]