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2000 SESSION

99-0612

08/02

SENATE BILL 89-LOCAL

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill requires library trustees to direct that funds raised and appropriated for library purposes be paid over by the town or city treasurer according to a payment schedule agreed upon by the library trustees and the town selectmen or city council.

This bill also allows the appointment of alternate library trustees.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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99-0612

08/02

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

9:1 Surety Bond Required; Library Trustees. Amend the introductory paragraph of RSA 41:6, I to read as follows:

I. Town treasurers, trustees as provided in RSA 31:22 and 23, trustees as provided in RSA 53-B:8-a, I, library trustees [investing funds as provided in RSA 202-A:23] including alternate library trustees, if any, town clerks, tax collectors and their deputies, and agents authorized to collect the boat fee shall be bonded by position under a blanket bond from a surety company authorized to do business in this state. The bond shall indemnify against losses through:

9:2 Public Libraries; Library Trustees; Alternates; Custody and Management of Appropriations. Amend RSA 202-A:6 to read as follows:

202-A:6 Library Trustees; Election; Alternates. The library trustees shall have the entire custody and management of the public library and of all the property of the town relating thereto, [except] including appropriations held pursuant to RSA 202-A:11, III, but excepting trust funds held by the town. Any town having a public library shall, at a duly warned town meeting, elect a board of library trustees consisting of any odd number of persons which the town may decide to elect. Such trustees shall serve staggered 3-year terms or until their successors are elected and qualified. There may be no more than 3 alternates as provided in RSA 202-A:10.

9:3 Library Trustees; Vacancies; Alternates. Amend RSA 202-A:10 to read as follows:

202-A:10 Library Trustees; Vacancies; Alternates. Vacancies occurring on any board of library trustees in a town shall be filled as provided in RSA 669:75. A vacancy occurring among the publicly elected members of the board of library trustees of a city library shall be filled by the city council or other appropriate appointing authority within 2 months of the notice by the remaining members of the board of trustees. The board of library trustees may recommend to the appointing authority names of persons for appointment to vacancies on expired terms. The board of library trustees may recommend to the appointing authority the names of no more than 3 persons who may serve as alternate members on the board when elected members of the board are unable to attend a board meeting. The alternate members shall be appointed to one-year terms.

9:4 Library Trustees; Powers and Duties. Amend RSA 202-A:11, III to read as follows:

III. Expend all moneys raised and appropriated by the town or city for library purposes and shall direct that such moneys be paid over by the town or city treasurer pursuant to a payment schedule as agreed to by the library trustees and the selectmen or city council. All money received from fines and payments for lost or damaged books or for the support of a library in another city or town under contract to furnish library service to such town or city, shall be used for general repairs and upgrading, and for the purchase of books, supplies and income-generating equipment, shall be held in a nonlapsing separate fund and shall be in addition to the appropriation;

9:5 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

(Approved: February 16, 2000)

(Effective Date: April 16, 2000)