The board of directors shall have the following powers and duties: 1. To make and adopt such bylaws, rules, and regulations relating to the duties of the officers of the board as may be expedient and not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter. 2. To make and adopt such bylaws, rules, and regulations for the management of the library and reading room as are expedient and not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter. 3. To control, exclusively, the expenditures of all moneys collected for or contributed to the library fund.
4. To have the supervision, care, and custody of the library property, and of the rooms or buildings constructed, leased, or set apart for use of library purposes. 5. To contract to furnish library service and to receive library service from other counties, school districts, and cities of the state of North Dakota and adjoining states, and the state library. 6. To employ qualified personnel to administer the public library and dispense library services.
40-38-05. Board of directors may purchase, build, or lease building for library - Library building fund - Public hearing required. The board of directors, with the approval of the city or county governing body, may build, lease, lease-purchase, or purchase an appropriate building for a library and purchase a site therefor. Such lease, purchase, or contract shall not be valid without the approval of the governing body of the city or county. Prior to any actions on such proposals, the governing body shall hold a public hearing on the proposals. Notice of the hearing shall be published at least once, not less than six days prior to the hearing, in a newspaper of general circulation within the city or county. The governing body shall seek the advice and comment of the state library and the general public at the hearing. After such hearing, the governing body of a city or county may establish by resolution a library building fund for the purpose of construction, enlargement, or alteration of a building or for the purchase of an existing building to be used as a public library. The city auditor or county treasurer shall place in the library building fund all moneys for such purposes as may be appropriated by the governing body or received for such purposes from federal, state, county, city, or private sources. The library building fund shall not revert to the library general fund or the general fund of the city or county without authorization by formal resolution from both the library's board of directors and the governing body of the city or county.