Title 11 — Title 11: Libraries and Museums

Sec. 11-20. Establishment. Gifts. Pensions. Any town, city, borough, fire district or incorporated school district may, by ordinance, establish a public library and may expend such sums of money as may be necessary to purchase land for a suitable site and to provide and maintain …

Sec. 11-21. Board of trustees. In the absence of any other provision therefor, the management of the public library in any municipality, fire district or incorporated school district which has established such library under the provisions of section 11-20 shall be vested in a boa…

Sec. 11-22. Expenses. The officer designated by the trustees of any such library shall draw his order on the treasurer of any such municipality for such sums as may be necessary to pay the expense of such library, but such sums shall not exceed in the aggregate the amount appropr…

Sec. 11-23. State Librarian to advise and assist libraries. The State Librarian, with the approval of the State Library Board, shall give to communities advice and assistance in the organization, establishment and administration of free public libraries, shall extend to the free …

Sec. 11-23a. Library service center in Middlesex and Windham-Tolland areas. The State Library Board shall maintain a library service center in the Middlesex County area and in the Windham-Tolland County area, to serve the public libraries and public schools in each of said areas.…

Sec. 11-23b. (Formerly Sec. 10-28). Library service centers for public libraries and public schools. The State Library Board may establish and maintain library service centers to provide supplementary books and related library materials and services to public libraries and to pub…

Sec. 11-23c. Communications grant program for schools and public libraries. There is established a grant program jointly administered by the Department of Education and the State Library to provide grants on a competitive process to schools and principal public libraries with pri…

Sec. 11-24. Payments to free public libraries. Section 11-24 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 1662; 1949, 1955, S. 1023d; 1957, P.A. 126, S. 1; 1959, P.A. 450, S. 1; February, 1965, P.A. 490, S. 7; 1967, P.A. 590, S. 5.)

Sec. 11-24a. Definitions. Principal public library. Nonprincipal public library. (a) As used in sections 11-24b, 11-24c and 11-31a: (1) “Board” means the State Library Board. (2) “Public library” means a library that serves its residents through its outlet or outlets without char…

Sec. 11-24b. State grants to principal public libraries; incentive grants. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (i) of this section, each principal public library, as defined in section 11-24a, shall be eligible to receive a state grant in accordance with the provisions…

Sec. 11-24c. Construction cost grants. Emergency repair grants. (a) The State Library Board shall make construction grants to public libraries established pursuant to this chapter. The board shall establish criteria for the purpose of developing a priority listing of all construc…

Sec. 11-24d. Grants for library automation. The state, through the State Library Board, may provide financial assistance in the form of grants to support the application of automation to the state's libraries. Grants shall be made to assist in the payment of expenses associated w…

Sec. 11-25. Reports by libraries. Confidentiality of records. (a) The libraries established under the provisions of this chapter, and any free public library receiving a state appropriation, shall annually make a report to the State Library Board. (b) (1) Notwithstanding section …

Sec. 11-26. Librarians' certificates. Section 11-26 is repealed, effective July 1, 2007. (1949 Rev., S. 1664; February, 1965, P.A. 490, S. 9; P.A. 75-316, S. 16; P.A. 07-227, S. 24.)

Sec. 11-27. Library fund. All moneys collected or received in payment for library service contracted for and rendered shall be placed in the treasury of the town, city, borough, fire district or school district for which such service was rendered, to the credit of its library fun…

Sec. 11-28. Merger of library facilities. The trustees of two or more public libraries may, with the approval of the towns in which such libraries are situated, contract for the merger, in whole or in part, of the facilities of such libraries. (1949 Rev., S. 1666; P.A. 07-227, S.…

Sec. 11-29. Transfer of employees. Members of the regular staff of any free public library may be transferred to one of its contract libraries, either on a temporary or a permanent basis, without affecting their status on the library payroll or their right to promotion, because o…

Sec. 11-30. Contracts for library service. Any state agency, municipality, taxing district or public or private library may contract with any other state agency, municipality, taxing district or public or private library to provide or secure such library services as may be agreed…

Sec. 11-31. Regional library service. Any town, city, borough, fire district or school district may raise money by taxation and make appropriations for defraying the expense of contract or regional library service, and shall be subject to the duties and entitled to the benefits p…

Sec. 11-31a. Definitions. As used in section 11-31b: (a) “Connecticard” means a cooperative program among public libraries in Connecticut which allows a resident of any town in the state who holds a valid borrower card issued by his home library to use that card to borrow materia…

Sec. 11-31b. Connecticard program; state aid for services rendered to nonresidents. Any public library which is a participating library in Connecticard and any library which was a participating library in Connecticard prior to July 1, 1983, may claim and be entitled to receive st…

Sec. 11-31c. State Library Board to adopt regulations. The State Library Board shall, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, adopt regulations to implement the provisions of section 11-31b. (P.A. 82-304, S. 3, 4.)

Sec. 11-32. Legislative body of municipality may establish or operate a public library. The legislative body of any municipality may establish or operate a public library and reading room, together with such kindred apartments and facilities as the legislative body approves; and …

Sec. 11-33. Powers and duties of trustees in municipalities. Gifts. When the legislative body of any municipality has decided to establish a public library and reading room, the chief elected official of such municipality shall, with the approval of the legislative body, appoint …

Sec. 11-34. Report by trustees. The board of trustees shall make, on or before the second Monday of June, an annual report to the city council for the year ending the first of June, stating the various sums of money received from the library fund and other sources and how such mo…

Sec. 11-35. Penalties for injuries. The city council of such city may pass ordinances imposing suitable penalties for damaging the grounds or other property of such library and for damaging or failing to return any book belonging to such library. Each library director or board of…

Sec. 11-36. Municipality tax. When fifty electors of any municipality present a petition to the clerk of such municipality, asking that an annual tax be levied for the establishment or operation of a free public library and reading room in such municipality, and specify in their …

Sec. 11-37. Trustees' compensation. No trustee of any free public library and reading room, established under the provisions of this chapter in any town, city, borough, school district or fire district, shall receive any compensation for any services rendered as such trustee. (19…