Chapter 51 — LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS
123 sections in this chapter.
Repealed. Laws 1997, LB 250, § 26.
0.0K chars
[Repealed or reserved.]
Repealed. Laws 1997, LB 250, § 26.
0.0K chars
[Repealed or reserved.]
Repealed. Laws 1997, LB 250, § 26.
0.0K chars
[Repealed or reserved.]
Repealed. Laws 1997, LB 250, § 26.
0.0K chars
[Repealed or reserved.]
Repealed. Laws 1997, LB 250, § 26.
0.0K chars
[Repealed or reserved.]
Repealed. Laws 1997, LB 250, § 26.
0.0K chars
[Repealed or reserved.]
Repealed. Laws 1997, LB 250, § 26.
0.0K chars
[Repealed or reserved.]
Repealed. Laws 1997, LB 250, § 26.
0.0K chars
[Repealed or reserved.]
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-401 Nebraska Library Commission; members; term.
0.6K chars
A Nebraska Library Commission is hereby established composed of six members to be appointed by the Governor, one to serve one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years, and one for five years, and thereafter the Governor shall appoint a new member annually …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-402 Nebraska Library Commission; expenses; payment.
0.3K chars
The members of the Nebraska Library Commission shall serve without pay. They shall receive remuneration for expenses incurred while engaged in the business of the commission as provided in sections 81-1174 to 81-1177. These expenses shall be paid out of the funds of the Nebraska …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-403 Nebraska Library Commission; powers and duties; director; appointment; salary.
1.3K chars
The powers and duties of the Nebraska Library Commission shall be (1) to make rules and regulations not inconsistent with law for its government and operations, (2) to appoint a director, at a salary to be fixed by the commission, who shall be a technically trained, qualified, an…
Repealed. Laws 1959, c. 266, § 1.
0.0K chars
[Repealed or reserved.]
Repealed. Laws 1963, c. 341, § 1.
0.0K chars
[Repealed or reserved.]
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-403.03 Nebraska Library Commission; director; salary increase; when effective.
0.3K chars
Section 51-403 shall be so interpreted as to effectuate its general purpose, to provide, in the public interest, adequate compensation as therein provided for the director of the Nebraska Library Commission; and to permit a change of such salary as soon as same may become operati…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-404 Director; duties.
0.7K chars
It shall be the duty of the director of the commission (1) to administer the work and activities of the commission, (2) to purchase books, periodicals, other library materials, and all necessary equipment and supplies for the commission, (3) to keep a catalog of all books, period…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-405 Local libraries, agencies, or organizations; entitled to services, when.
0.2K chars
Any library, governmental agency, or any body of citizens or taxpayers organized for library purposes shall, upon complying with the rules prescribed by the Nebraska Library Commission, be entitled to the commission's services.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-406 Books; loans to libraries.
0.3K chars
Any books, collection of books or other property of the Nebraska Library Commission may be loaned to any library, under such rules for the safekeeping, preservation, care, handling and management of the same as may be fixed by the Nebraska Library Commission.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-407 Nebraska Library Commission; reports from all libraries required.
0.3K chars
The director shall each year obtain from all libraries in the state reports showing the conditions, growth, development and manner of conducting such libraries, together with such other facts and statistics regarding the same as may be deemed of public interest by the Nebraska Li…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-408 Nebraska Library Commission; assistance to local libraries.
0.6K chars
The director shall when asked give advice and instruction to all libraries or individuals and to all communities which may propose to establish libraries as to the best means for establishing, organizing and administering such libraries, selecting and cataloging books, and other …
Repealed. Laws 1981, LB 497, § 1.
0.0K chars
[Repealed or reserved.]
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-410 Nebraska Library Commission; disbursements; power of director.
0.4K chars
The director may from time to time as needed draw a voucher signed by himself in favor of any party to whom money is due, stating in such voucher what the money is to be used for. Upon presentation of such order the Director of Administrative Services shall draw his warrant upon …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-410.01 Nebraska Library Commission Cash Fund; created; how funded.
0.5K chars
There is hereby created a fund to be known as the Nebraska Library Commission Cash Fund, from which shall be appropriated such amounts as are available and as shall be considered incident to the administration of the Nebraska Library Commission. All funds received by the Nebraska…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-411 Terms, defined.
1.1K chars
As used in sections 51-411 to 51-418, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Print shall include all forms of printing and duplicating, regardless of format or purpose, with the exception of correspondence and interoffice memoranda; (2) State publications shall include any mu…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-412 Nebraska Publications Clearinghouse; created; duties; rules and regulations.
0.4K chars
There is hereby created, as a division of the Nebraska Library Commission, a Nebraska Publications Clearinghouse. The clearinghouse shall establish and operate a publications collection and depository system for the use of Nebraska citizens. To this end, the Nebraska Library Comm…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-413 State agencies; publications; filing with Nebraska Publications Clearinghouse.
0.9K chars
Every state agency head or his or her appointed records officer shall notify the Nebraska Publications Clearinghouse of his or her identity. The records officer shall upon release of a state publication deposit four copies and a short summary, including author, title, and subject…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-414 Depository contracts; standards; establish.
0.6K chars
The Nebraska Publications Clearinghouse may enter into depository contracts with any municipal or county public library, state college or state university library, and out-of-state research libraries. The requirements for eligibility to contract as a depository library shall be e…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-415 Official list of publications; publish; contents.
0.4K chars
The Nebraska Publications Clearinghouse shall publish and distribute regularly to contracting depository libraries, other libraries, state agencies and legislators, an official list of state publications with an annual cumulation. The official list shall provide a record of each …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-416 Current state publications; furnish.
0.2K chars
Upon request by the Nebraska Publications Clearinghouse, records officers of state agencies shall furnish the clearinghouse with a complete list of their current state publications.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-417 Distribution of state publications; restriction.
0.4K chars
The Nebraska Publications Clearinghouse shall not engage in general public distribution of either state publications or lists of publications. Sections 51-411 to 51-418 shall not affect the distribution of state publications distributed by state agencies, except that the agencies…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-418 Interlibrary loan service; provide.
0.2K chars
The Nebraska Publications Clearinghouse shall provide access to local, state, federal and other governmental publications to state agencies and legislators and through interlibrary loan service to citizens of the state.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-501 Museums; local governmental subdivisions; establishment; tax levy; limitation; authorization by election; discontinuance.
2.0K chars
(1) The city council of any city, the board of trustees of any incorporated village, the county board of any county, and the electors of any township at their annual town meeting shall have the power to establish a museum for the use of the inhabitants of such city, village, coun…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-502 Museums; city or village; establishment; museum board; members; terms; vacancy, how filled.
2.4K chars
A city or village may establish and maintain a museum pursuant to sections 51-501 to 51-513 when approved by at least fifty-one percent of the votes cast at the election by the electors of the city or village voting on the proposition. Notwithstanding the provisions of any home r…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-503 Museums; county or township; establishment; museum board; members; terms; vacancies, how filled; compensation.
1.1K chars
When the electors of any county or of any township shall have voted to establish and maintain a museum, the county board of such county or the township board of such township shall appoint a museum board of not less than five but not more than nine members, no member of which sha…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-504 Museums; trustees; officers; appointment; meetings; quorum.
0.3K chars
The trustees of any city, village, county, or township museum shall immediately after their appointment meet and organize by electing from their number a president, secretary and such other officers as may be necessary. Three members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-505 Museums; board; powers.
0.4K chars
The museum board shall have the power to make and adopt such bylaws, rules, and regulations for its own guidance and for the government of the museum as it may deem expedient and not inconsistent with the provisions of sections 51-501 to 51-512. The board shall have power to empl…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-506 Museums; board; finances; care of building.
0.3K chars
The museum board shall have exclusive control of expenditures, of all money collected or donated to the credit of the museum fund, of the renting or construction of a museum building and the supervision, care, and custody of the grounds, rooms, or buildings constructed, leased, o…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-507 Museums; funds; disbursement; acquisition from private sources; kept separate and apart; manner of disbursement.
1.0K chars
All taxes levied or collected shall be kept for the use of the museum, separate and apart from other funds of the city, village, county, or township. They shall be drawn upon and paid out by the treasurer of such city, village, county, or township upon vouchers signed by the pres…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-508 Museums; public use; admission charges; rules and regulations.
0.6K chars
Every museum supported by public tax shall be open to the use of the public, subject to such reasonable regulations and admission charges as the museum board may adopt to render such museum of the greatest use to the public. The board may exclude from the use of the museum any pe…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-509 Museums; board; report; contents.
0.7K chars
Except where a contract is entered into for the use of a museum already established, the museum board shall, on or before the second Monday in June in each year, make a report to the city council, village board, or to the county or township board as to the condition of its trust …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-510 Museums; gifts and devises; title in trust; revenue bonds; payment.
0.6K chars
Any person may make gifts or devises of money, lands, or other property to or for the benefit of any public museum. The title to property so donated or devised may be made to and shall vest in the museum board of such museum and their successors in office, and the board shall the…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-511 Museum; conveyance of real estate or other property; procedure; applicability of section.
1.2K chars
The museum board may, by resolution of the majority of the board, direct the sale, conveyance, or disposition of any real estate or other property owned by the museum board or by the museum upon such terms and conditions as the museum board deems in the best interest of the museu…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-512 Museums; property; exempt from execution and taxation.
0.3K chars
The property of any public museum, including the museum property of a contracting party set forth in a contract with a city or village for the use of a museum already established, shall be exempt from execution and taxation, as is other public property.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 51-513 Museums; revenue bonds; purpose; issuance; payable; sale; refunding.
2.6K chars
The city council of any city, the board of trustees of any incorporated village, the county board of any county and the electors of any township at their annual town meeting, who have established a museum pursuant to the provisions of sections 51-501 to 51-503, shall have the pow…
Repealed. Laws 2004, LB 940, § 4.
0.0K chars
[Repealed or reserved.]
Repealed. Laws 2004, LB 940, § 4.
0.0K chars
[Repealed or reserved.]
Repealed. Laws 2004, LB 940, § 4.
0.0K chars
[Repealed or reserved.]
Repealed. Laws 2004, LB 940, § 4.
0.0K chars
[Repealed or reserved.]
Repealed. Laws 2004, LB 940, § 4.
0.0K chars
[Repealed or reserved.]
Repealed. Laws 2004, LB 940, § 4.
0.0K chars
[Repealed or reserved.]
Repealed. Laws 2004, LB 940, § 4.
0.0K chars
[Repealed or reserved.]