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Subchapter
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MUNICIPAL LIBRARIES
(Cite as: 22 V.S.A. § 146)
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§ 146. Public documents and volumes
(a) The governing body of the municipality may vote to place in the library a copy of
any documents and volumes received by the municipality and also a copy of any documents
and volumes received from the State, except library materials provided by law to be
kept in the office of the town clerk, as it shall designate. These materials shall
remain the property of the municipality, but their use shall be enjoyed by the library
until the governing body votes otherwise.
(b) The State Librarian shall deliver to a public library that has been voted the use
of documents owned by the municipality, the duplicate documents and volumes published
or provided by the State that, in the judgment of the Board of Libraries, can be delivered
without prejudice to the Department of Libraries. The documents and volumes shall
remain the property of the State, but the library shall use them until the State Librarian
is directed by law to demand their return to the Department of Libraries.
(c) When a public library exists in a municipality and is not established by it, the municipality
may, at an annual meeting, by a two-thirds vote, make the provisions of subsection
(a) of this section apply to the library; and, in case of such vote, the provisions
of subsection (b) of this section shall apply to the library the same as if it were
established and maintained by the municipality. (Amended 1989, No. 28, § 15.)