Title XVI, Libraries

Any town or library official violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Trust funds given to towns and cities for the use of a public library shall be held in the custody and under the management of the trustees of trust funds. The entire income from such funds shall be paid over to the library trustees. Payment of such income shall be made by the tr…

Nothing in this chapter shall preclude the library trustees from accepting, receiving, investing, and administering directly any trust funds and donations when so specified by the donor. Library trustees administering and investing such special funds shall be governed by the prov…

Any person who shall wilfully or maliciously deface, damage or destroy any property belonging to or in the care of any gallery or museum or any state, public, school, college, or other institutional library, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Any such person shall forfeit to or fo…

Any person who willfully detains any book, newspaper, magazine, manuscript, pamphlet, publication, recording, film, or other property belonging to or in the care of any gallery or museum of any state, public, school, college, or other institutional library, may be given written n…

Any town may establish a public library by majority vote at any duly warned town meeting. Any town may vote in the same manner to accept a public library which has been provided, in whole or in part, by private donation or bequest and may accept any bequest, devise or donation fo…

The state librarian is authorized to designate no more than 25 public and academic libraries as state government information access libraries. In designating program libraries, the state librarian shall take into account geographic representation, population served, and capabilit…

A public library established or accepted by a town or city shall be deemed a "public agency," and the library trustees a "public body," for purposes of RSA 91-A, and they shall be subject to all applicable provisions of that chapter; provided, however, that any books, documents, …

Any city or town having a public library shall annually raise and appropriate a sum of money sufficient to provide and maintain adequate public library service therein or to supplement funds otherwise provided.

I. Each agency component of state government shall produce 25 copies of its tangible state government information products for deposit with the state librarian. The state librarian shall make tangible products available through distribution to program libraries and shall ensure p…

Any public library may join library cooperatives consisting of public libraries, or of public and other than public libraries including school, college and university, and special libraries. Towns are authorized to raise and appropriate sufficient money for participation in coope…

Any town may contract with another town or city, or with an institution or other organization, for any library service. If a town meeting votes to enter into such a contract, the town shall raise and appropriate sufficient money to carry out the contract.

I. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any town at an annual meeting may adopt an article authorizing indefinitely until specific rescission of such authority, the public library trustees to apply for, accept and expend, without further action by the town …

I. Any town at an annual meeting may adopt an article authorizing the public library trustees to accept gifts of personal property, other than money, which may be offered to the library for any public purpose, and such authorization shall remain in effect until rescinded by a vot…

Every public library shall remain forever free to the use of every resident of the town wherein it is located.

The state librarian shall not distribute copies of: I. The state reporter and reports provided under RSA 505. II. Intra-office or inter-office publications and forms.

Program libraries shall make government information products received or accessed through the program available for the free use of the general public. They shall organize the tangible information products in an acceptable fashion.

The library trustees shall have the entire custody and management of the public library and of all the property of the town relating thereto, including appropriations held pursuant to RSA 202-A:11, III, but excepting trust funds held by the town. Any town having a public library …

In any town where a public library has been acquired by the town, in whole or in part, by donation or bequest containing other conditions or provisions for the election of its trustees or other governing board, which conditions have been agreed to by vote of the town and which co…

The state librarian shall coordinate with each component of state government, the program libraries, and the state archivist to establish a system whereby state government information products available via state government electronic information services shall be maintained perm…

I. The state librarian shall, in cooperation with all branches and agencies of state government, develop and publish annually a plan to increase the quality and quantity of state government information available in electronic format incrementally beginning with information that i…

The trustees of a public library in a city shall be elected as provided in the city charter. In case of trustees of a city library acquired by a city in whole or in part, by donation or bequest containing other conditions or provisions for the election or appointment of trustees,…