Title 27, Title 27

Any 2 or more state library agencies of 2 or more of the party states may undertake and conduct joint or cooperative library programs, render joint or cooperative library services, and enter into and perform arrangements for the cooperative or joint acquisition, use, housing and …

1. Library agreements. In order to provide for any joint or cooperative undertaking pursuant to this compact, public and private library agencies may enter into library agreements. Any agreement executed pursuant to the provisions of this compact shall, as among the parties to th…

1. Approval of attorney general. Every library agreement made pursuant to this compact shall, prior to and as a condition precedent to its entry into force, be submitted to the attorney general of each state in which a public library agency party thereto is situated, who shall de…

Nothing in this compact or in any library agreement shall be construed to supersede, alter or otherwise impair any obligation imposed on any library by otherwise applicable law, nor to authorize the transfer or disposition of any property held in trust by a library agency in a ma…

1. Funds. Any public library agency party to a library agreement may appropriate funds to the interstate library district established thereby in the same manner and to the same extent as to a library wholly maintained by it and, subject to the laws of the state in which such publ…

Each state shall designate a compact administrator with whom copies of all library agreements to which his state or any public library agency thereof is party shall be filed. The administrator shall have such other powers as may be conferred upon him by the laws of his state and …

1. Force and effect. This compact shall enter into force and effect immediately upon its enactment into law by any 2 states. Thereafter, it shall enter into force and effect as to any other state upon the enactment thereof by such state. 2. Withdrawal. This compact shall continue…

This compact shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes thereof. The provisions of this compact shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any party state or of the Unite…

The Interstate Library Compact is enacted into law and entered into by this State with all states legally joining therein in the form substantially as provided in this chapter.

No municipality of this State shall be party to a library agreement which provides for the construction or maintenance of a library pursuant to Article III, subsection 3, paragraph G, of this compact, nor pledge its credit in support of such a library, or contribute to the capita…

As used in the compact, "state library agency," with reference to this State, means the Maine State Library.

An interstate library district lying partly within this State may claim and be entitled to receive state aid in support of any of its functions to the same extent and in the same manner as such functions are eligible for support when carried on by entities wholly within this Stat…

The State Librarian shall be the compact administrator pursuant to Article X of the compact. The deputy state librarian shall be deputy compact administrator pursuant to said article.

In the event of withdrawal from the compact, the Governor shall send and receive any notices required by Article XI, subsection 2, of the compact.