12-1225.   Powers and duties of board.Library boards shall have the following powers and duties: (a) To makeand adopt rules and regulations for the administration of the library;

      (b)   with the approval of the governing body of the municipality, topurchase or lease a site or sites and to lease or erect a building orbuildings for the use of the library;

      (c)   to acquire by purchase, gift or exchange, books, magazines, papers,printed materials, slides, pictures, films, projection equipment,phonograph records and other material and equipment deemed necessary by theboard for the maintenance and extension of modern library service;

      (d)   to employ a librarian and such other employees as the boarddeems necessary and to remove them and to fix their compensation, exceptas provided in K.S.A. 12-1225b;

      (e)   to establish and maintain a library or libraries and travelinglibrary service within the municipality or within any other municipalitywith which service contract arrangements have been made;

      (f)   to contract with other libraries established under the provisions ofthis act or with the governing body of a municipality not maintaining apublic library for the furnishing of library service to the inhabitants ofsuch municipality to the extent and upon such terms as may be agreed upon,and to contract with any school board to furnish library service to anyschool library or to use the library facilities of the public school tosupplement the facilities of the public library;

      (g)   to receive, accept and administer any money appropriated or grantedto it by the state or the federal government or any agency thereof for thepurpose of aiding or providing library service;

      (h)   to receive and accept any gift or donation to the library andadminister the same in accordance with any provisions thereof. If noprovisions are specified, the board shall have the power to hold, invest orreinvest the gift and any dividends, interest, rent or income derived fromthe gift in the manner the board deems will best serve the interests of the library;

      (i)   to make annual reports to the state librarian and the governing bodyof the municipality on or before January 31 of each year for thepreceding calendar year, showing receipts and disbursements from all fundsunder its control, and showing such statistical information relating tolibrary materials acquired and on hand, number of library users, libraryservices available, and other information of general interest as thegoverning body requires;

      (j)   as to money received from sources other than a tax levy for librarypurposes, in its discretion, to place such money in a separate fund orfunds, or to place the money in the fund to which the tax levy money iscredited unless the grantor or donor directs how and for what purposethe money shall be handled and spent.

      History:   L. 1951, ch. 485, § 8; L. 1953, ch. 65, § 1; L. 1965,ch. 103, § 1; L. 1965, ch. 104, § 1; L. 1984, ch. 69, § 7; L. 1984, ch. 69,§ 2; Jan. 1, 1985.