Title 40, Title 40: MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES

40:33-13. Participation by municipalities When any municipality, maintaining a public library and situate in a county which has adopted a county library system under the provisions of this article, desires to participate in the benefits of this article, the governing body thereof…

40:33-13.1. Contracts with other municipalities for additional library service The governing body of any municipality which forms part of a county library system may, by resolution, contract with any other municipality which maintains a free public library, for the furnishing of …

40:33-13.10. Annual reports The board of trustees shall make annual reports to the boards of chosen freeholders of the participating counties, to the governing bodies of such municipalities with which it has contractual arrangements to provide library services and to the boards o…

40:33-13.11. Proposal of sum required for operation and expenses; objections; determination The board of trustees shall annually, not later than November 1, propose to the boards of chosen freeholders of each of the participating counties the total sum required for the operation …

40:33-13.12. Assessment and levy of taxes Each board of chosen freeholders shall certify to its county board of taxation the sum to be provided by that county as certified or determined pursuant to section 8 of this act. The county board of taxation shall apportion such sum, in a…

40:33-13.13. Duties of treasurer; annual audit The treasurer of the board of trustees shall receive and hold, in behalf of the board, all funds of the library and shall pay out or transfer such funds, as directed by resolution of the board of trustees, by check signed by him and …

40:33-13.14 Agreements with municipalities not served by regional library. 12. The board of trustees may enter into agreements with the governing body of any municipality which is not then served by the regional library to increase or improve the library services available to the…

40:33-13.15. Disposition of revenues Money paid to the regional library for lost or damaged books or other library materials, for use of "pay" or "rental" collections and for the sale of library books or other library property shall be held by the board of trustees and spent only…

40:33-13.16. County library commission; termination; assets and obligations Upon the establishment of a regional library, the terms of office of all members of any county library commission of any participating county shall terminate. The assets and obligations of any such commis…

40:33-13.17. Regional library as "public agency or organization" within Public Employees' Retirement Act Any regional library established pursuant to this act shall be deemed a "public agency or organization" as that term is used in the Public Employees' Retirement Act (P.L.1954,…

40:33-13.18. Withdrawal of participating county If the board of chosen freeholders of any participating county shall determine by resolution to withdraw its participation in the support, maintenance and control of the regional library, it shall give notice thereof to the boards o…

40:33-13.2. Use of money received under contract The governing body of such other municipality may, by resolution, enter into contract as provided in this act and all sums of money paid under such contract shall be appropriated and used for library purposes in accordance with the…

40:33-13.2a. Authority to acquire real property or other interest; maintaining facilities; bonds; ad valorem taxes Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the board of chosen freeholders of any county is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire real property or any int…

40:33-13.2b. Agreements with respect to provision, leasing, use, operation or maintenance; payments on account Said board of chosen freeholders and any county library commission, governing body of any municipality or board of trustees of any free public library in the county are …

40:33-13.2c. Employee of county library system formerly employee of municipal free public library; classified service Any former employee of a municipal free public library who has become an employee of a county library system pursuant to an agreement providing for the admission …

40:33-13.2d. Short title This act shall be known and may be cited as the "County Library Reorganization Law." L.1981, c. 489, s. 1, eff. Jan. 12, 1982.

40:33-13.2e. County library study commission; establishment; petition; members; chairman; reimbursement of expenses The governing body of any county which has established a county library as provided in chapter 33 of Title 40 of the Revised Statutes may, by ordinance or resolutio…

40:33-13.2f. County library commission; duties It shall be the duty of the county library study commission to study the county library system, assess its needs, and evaluate its ability to provide library services to county residents. The library study commission may report and r…

40:33-13.2g. Offices; expenses; payment; employees, consultants and clerical staff; report of findings and recommendations; referendum question on reorganization of system a. The governing body of the county shall provide the county library study commission with such offices as m…

40:33-13.2h. Question of reorganization; form on ballot; publication of report; vote necessary The question of the reorganization of the county library system shall be submitted to the voters in substantially the following form: "Shall the county library system be reorganized pur…

40:33-13.2i "Branch Development Option." 6. The option for reorganization of the county library system provided in this section shall be known as the "Branch Development Option" and shall govern the county library system of any county whose voters have adopted it pursuant to sect…

40:33-13.2j "Service Contract Option." 7. The option for reorganization of the county library system provided in this section shall be known as the "Service Contract Option" and shall govern the county library system of any county whose voters have adopted it pursuant to section …

40:33-13.2k "Tax Base Sharing Option." 8. The option for reorganization of the county library system provided in this section shall be known as the "Tax Base Sharing Option," and shall be available only to any county in which revenues from the dedicated county library tax establi…

40:33-13.2l . County with tax base sharing option; exclusion of appropriations as county tax levy under Cap Law For the first 2 years following the reorganization of a county library system pursuant to section 8 of this act, any appropriation made by the county governing body for…

40:33-13.2m. Evaluation of county library system after rejection by voters or after reorganization; time interval after election a. Except as provided in subsection c. of this section, the governing body of any county which has rejected a question placed on the ballot pursuant to…

40:33-13.2n Rules, regulations. 11. The State Librarian, with the approval of the President of Thomas Edison State College is authorized to promulgate, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), such rules and regulations as it deems nec…

40:33-13.3. Establishment by joint agreement Any 2 or more counties may, by joint agreement adopted by similar resolutions of their boards of chosen freeholders, provide for the establishment and maintenance of a regional library for the use and benefit of the residents of the mu…

40:33-13.4. Provisions of agreement The regional library agreement shall provide for: (a) the establishment and maintenance of a regional library upon the approval of such agreement by such counties as the agreement shall provide; (b) a proposed initial budget for the regional li…

40:33-13.5 Amendment of regional library agreement; filing copy. 3. The regional library agreement may, from time to time, be amended or supplemented by the adoption of similar resolutions by all the boards of chosen freeholders of the participating counties. A copy of the origin…

40:33-13.6. Resolution; public inspection; publication Upon the introduction of a resolution approving such agreement, or any amendment or supplement thereto, such resolutions, agreement, amendment, or supplement shall be and remain on file for public inspection in the office of …

40:33-13.7. Board of trustees; membership; appointment; vacancies; compensation The regional library shall be under the management and control of a board of trustees to be designated as "the trustees of the (names of the participating counties) regional library" or by other appro…

40:33-13.8. Organization of board; officers; term of office The board of trustees shall organize annually and elect, from among its members, a president and vice-president. It shall also appoint a treasurer and secretary. The treasurer may be treasurer of one of the participating…

40:33-13.9. Boards as body public and corporate; powers The board of trustees shall be a body public and corporate and may: (a) sue and be sued; (b) adopt a corporate seal; (c) hold in trust and manage all property of the regional library; (d) acquire and dispose of any real and …

40:33-13.9a. Regional library administrators, duties 37. The director or other chief administrative officer of each regional library established under the provisions of P.L.1962, c.134 (C.40:33-13.3 et seq.) shall: a. cause copies of the voter registration forms and instructions …

40:33-13a. Withdrawal from county system Any municipality which is a member of a county library system not exempted as provided hereafter, may withdraw from that system by resolution of the governing body adopted after a public hearing held thereon. Within 30 days of the adoption…

40:33-13b. Withdrawal from county library system Any municipality which is a member of a county library system pursuant to R.S. 40:33-1 on the effective date of this amendatory and supplementary act shall continue as a member of the county library system unless the governing body…

40:33-14. Law library; maintenance; purchase of books; annual expenditures limited 40:33-14. The board of chosen freeholders may maintain at the courthouse a law library for the use of the courts held in the county, and for that purpose shall purchase such reports and statutes of…

40:33-15. Morris County; reorganization of free county library; resolution Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the board of chosen freeholders of any county having a population of not less than 350,000 nor more than 450,000 according to the 1970 Federal census which …

40:33-16. Definitions As used in this act: a. "First level services" means services provided by a free county library which are coextensive with those provided by free public libraries established pursuant to chapter 54 of Title 40 of the Revised Statutes which may include but ar…

40:33-17. County library commission; members The "county library commission" in such counties shall consist of seven members. On or before the effective date of such reorganization, the board of chosen freeholders shall appoint the two additional members to the commission, for te…

40:33-18. Proposal of operational amount for ensuing calendar year The county library commission in such counties shall annually, not later than November 1, propose to the board of chosen freeholders the total sum required for the operation of the library for the ensuing calendar…

40:33-19. Funding county library services Following the passage of a resolution to reorganize the free county library pursuant to the provisions of this act and annually thereafter, the board of chosen freeholders shall determine a sum sufficient for the maintenance of first and …

40:33-2. Referendum No such library shall be established until assented to by the legal voters of the county at any election at which the question of the establishment thereof shall be submitted. In counties which have heretofore adopted the provisions of an act entitled "An act …

40:33-20. Municipalities; continuation of receipt of services from free county library; exceptions Municipalities receiving benefits from the free county library prior to the adoption of a resolution by the board of chosen freeholders to reorganize the free county library pursuan…

40:33-21. Report on effectiveness of second level services Within 18 months following the reorganization of the free county library pursuant to this act, after consultation with all the libraries in the county, the county library commission shall submit a report to all the munici…

40:33-22. Application of provisions on free county libraries All free county libraries reorganized pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be governed by the provisions of article 1, chapter 33, Title 40 of the Revised Statutes insofar as they are not inconsistent with the p…