Title 33 — EDUCATION

33-2601. Policy. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the state of Idaho, as a part of the provisions for public education, to promote the establishment and development of free library service for all the people in Idaho. It is the purpose of this act to assure an informed e…

33-2602. Definitions. Unless a different meaning plainly is required in this chapter: (1) "Nonpartisan" means not controlled or influenced by any single political party. (2) "Board" means the group of trustees who manage the library. (3) "Mayor" means the elected chief municipal …

33-2603. Cities may establish tax supported libraries. The city council of every city shall have power to establish a public library, and for such purpose may annually levy and cause to be collected a tax up to but not exceeding one-tenth percent (.10%) of market value for assess…

33-2604. Board of trustees — Appointment — Term of office — Compensation. (1) For the government of such library there shall be a board of five (5) library trustees appointed by the mayor and council pursuant to section 50-210, Idaho Code, from among city residents. If the city g…

33-2605. Board of trustees — Vacancies — Removal. The board shall report all vacancies to the council within five (5) working days. All such appointments shall be made in the same manner as appointments are originally made. Appointments to complete an unexpired term shall be for …

33-2606. Board of trustees — Meetings. The board of trustees shall meet at least once in each quarter unless required by city ordinance to meet more frequently. One (1) of the meetings shall be designated as the annual meeting. The purposes of the annual meeting are to elect the …

33-2607. Powers and duties of trustees. In addition to the powers elsewhere contained in this chapter and notwithstanding the provisions of title 50, Idaho Code, the board of trustees of each city library shall have the following powers and duties: (1) To establish bylaws for its…

33-2608. Library director — Duties — Other employees. (1) The board of trustees of each city library shall appoint the library director, who shall serve at the pleasure of the board. The library director shall advise the board, implement policy set by the board, supervise all lib…

33-2609. Annual appropriations — Control of expenditures. The board shall prepare and adopt an annual budget, stating anticipated revenues and expenditures, indicating what support and maintenance of the library will be required for review and approval by the city council for the…

33-2610. Donations. Donations or gifts for the benefit of the library shall be budgeted along with other library accounts and shall be used only for library purposes. Money or other funds which are donated or given to the library may be expended by the board of trustees only in a…

33-2611. Reports of trustees. The board of trustees shall annually, not later than the first day of January, file with the board of library commissioners a report of the operations of the library for the fiscal year just ended. The report shall be of such form and contain such in…

33-2612. Regional library systems — Purpose — Boundaries. It is the purpose of this act to provide a method by which the library boards which govern Idaho’s libraries, now or hereafter established in accordance with the Idaho Code, may contract to form regional library systems, i…

33-2613. Definitions. As used in this act, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Library board" means the five (5) citizens appointed, or elected, to govern a public library, a school community library, or a library district, in accordance with chapters 26 and 27, title 33,…

33-2614. Petition for establishment. Any two (2) or more library boards may petition the board of library commissioners for the establishment of a regional system. Such petition shall be prepared in cooperation with the state librarian, on forms provided by the commission for lib…

33-2615. System board of directors. Each regional system shall be governed by a board of directors, to be selected by and from the governing boards of the participating libraries. Initially, as the system is formed, each participating library shall be entitled to one (1) represen…

33-2616. Powers and duties of the system board. The system board shall serve as a liaison agency between the participating libraries and their governing bodies and library boards. The system board shall make such bylaws, rules and regulations as may be necessary for its own gover…

33-2617. Finance of regional systems — Budgets — Participating and nonparticipating units. Each regional system may be financed by any combination of available funds, federal, state, local, public and/or private. Counties, cities and library districts are hereby authorized and em…

33-2618. Addition to or withdrawal from a regional system. (1) After the establishment of a regional system as provided in this act, the board of any library which is not a part of the system, and which is within the boundaries of a library region as established by the Idaho boar…

33-2619. Administration of act by board of library commissioners. The Idaho board of library commissioners shall administer the provisions of this act, and shall adopt such rules as are necessary for approval of regional system petitions, review and amendment of regional system p…

33-2620. Failure to return borrowed material. Any person who borrows from a publicly funded lending facility any book, newspaper, magazine, manuscript, pamphlet, publication, microform, recording, film, artifact, specimen, device, exhibit or other article belonging to, or in the …