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Chapter 19.--COUNTIES AND COUNTY OFFICERS


Article 26.--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

     
19-2668.   Same; specific powers of board.
Museum boards shall have the following powers and duties:

     
(a)   To make and adopt rules and regulations for the administration of a
museum or cultural center;

     
(b)   with the approval of the board of county commissioners, to purchase
or lease a site or sites and to lease or erect a building or buildings for
the use of the museum or cultural center;

     
(c)   to acquire by purchase, gift or exchange, books, magazines, papers,
printed materials, slides, pictures, films, projection equipment, any and
all items of a historical interest, and other material and equipment deemed
necessary by the board for the maintenance of a museum or cultural center;

     
(d)   to employ a curator or museum or cultural center director and such
other employees as the board shall deem necessary and to remove them and to
fix their compensation;

     
(e)   to receive and accept any gift or donation to a museum or cultural
center and administer the same in accordance with any provision thereof;

     
(f)   to contract with nonprofit corporations for the operation and
maintenance of a museum.

     
History:   L. 1967, ch. 148, § 6; April 13.