Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 27 Libraries, Museums, And Historical Activities - Chapter 27.12 Public Libraries

27.12.010 Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning: (1) "Governmental unit" means any county, city, town, rural county library district, intercounty ...

27.12.020 Policy of state
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the state, as a part of its provision for public education, to promote the establishment and ...

27.12.025 Authorization
Any governmental unit has power to establish and maintain a library, either by itself or in cooperation with one or more other governmental units.[1941 c ...

27.12.030 Libraries, how established
A library may be established in any county, city, or town either (1) by its legislative body of its own initiative; or (2) upon the ...

27.12.040 Rural library districts -- Establishment
The procedure for the establishment of a rural county library district shall be as follows: (1) Petitions signed by at least ten percent of the ...

27.12.050 Rural library districts -- Board of library trustees -- Tax levies
After the board of county commissioners has declared a rural county library district established, it shall appoint a board of library trustees and provide funds ...

27.12.060 Rural library districts -- General powers
A rural county library district shall be a public corporation with such powers as are necessary to carry out its functions and for taxation purposes ...

27.12.070 Rural county library districts or rural partial-county library districts -- Disbursement of revenues and collection of taxes
The county treasurer of the county in which any rural county library district or rural partial-county library district is created shall receive and disburse all ...

27.12.079 Disincorporation of district located in county with a population of two hundred ten thousand or more and inactive for five years
See chapter 57.90 RCW. ...

27.12.080 Regional libraries
Two or more counties, or other governmental units, by action of their legislative bodies, may join in establishing and maintaining a regional library under the ...

27.12.090 Intercounty rural library districts -- Establishment
Intercounty rural library districts may be established to provide throughout several counties free public library service similar to that provided within a single county by ...

27.12.100 Intercounty rural library districts -- Establishment -- Procedure
An intercounty rural library district shall be established by joint action of two or more counties proceeding by either of the following alternative methods: (1) ...

27.12.110 Intercounty rural library districts -- Expansion of existing districts
An existing rural county library district may be expanded into an intercounty rural library district or an established intercounty rural library district may be expanded ...

27.12.120 Intercounty rural library districts -- Assumption of property, assets, liabilities
All property, assets and liabilities of preexisting library districts within the area included in an intercounty rural library district shall pass to and be assumed ...

27.12.130 Intercounty rural library districts -- Board of trustees
Immediately following the establishment of an intercounty rural library district the boards of county commissioners of the counties affected shall jointly appoint a board of ...

27.12.140 Intercounty rural library districts -- Name may be adopted
The board of trustees of an intercounty rural library district may adopt a name by which the district shall be known and under which it ...

27.12.150 Intercounty rural library districts -- Tax levies
Funds for the establishment and maintenance of the library service of the district shall be provided by the boards of county commissioners of the respective ...

27.12.160 Intercounty rural library districts -- District treasurer
The board of trustees of an intercounty rural library district shall designate the county treasurer of one of the counties included in the district to ...

27.12.170 Intercounty rural library districts -- Powers of board -- Procedures
Except as otherwise specifically provided intercounty rural library districts and the trustees thereof shall have the same powers as are prescribed by RCW 27.12.040 through ...

27.12.180 Contracts for library service
Instead of establishing or maintaining an independent library, the legislative body of any governmental unit authorized to maintain a library shall have power to contract ...

27.12.190 Library trustees -- Appointment, election, removal, compensation
The management and control of a library shall be vested in a board of either five or seven trustees as hereinafter in this section provided. ...

27.12.210 Library trustees -- Organization -- Bylaws -- Powers and duties
The trustees, immediately after their appointment or election, shall meet and organize by the election of such officers as they deem necessary. They shall: (1) ...

27.12.212 Community revitalization financing -- Public improvements
In addition to other authority that a rural county library district or intercounty rural library district possesses, a rural county library district or an intercounty ...

27.12.215 Job recruitment expenditures authorized
The trustees of a library or a library district have the authority to spend funds to recruit job candidates. The trustees have the authority to ...

27.12.220 Rural, island, and intercounty rural districts -- Budget for capital outlays -- Accumulation of funds
The trustees of any rural county library district, any island library district, or any intercounty rural library district may include in the annual budget of ...

27.12.222 Rural, island, and intercounty rural districts -- General obligation bonds -- Excess levies
A rural county library district, intercounty rural library district, or island library district may contract indebtedness and issue general obligation bonds not to exceed an ...

27.12.223 Bonds -- Sale -- Security for deposit
Bonds authorized by RCW 27.12.222 shall be issued and sold in accordance with chapter 39.46 RCW. All such bonds shall be legal securities for any ...

27.12.240 Annual appropriations -- Control of expenditures
After a library shall have been established or library service contracted for, the legislative body of the governmental unit for which the library was established ...

27.12.260 Annual report of trustees
At the close of each year the board of trustees of every library shall make a report to the legislative body of the governmental unit ...

27.12.270 Rules and regulations -- Free use of libraries
Every library established or maintained under *this act shall be free for the use of the inhabitants of the governmental unit in which it is ...

27.12.280 Use by nonresidents -- Exchange of books
The board of trustees of a library, under such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary and upon such terms and conditions as may ...

27.12.285 Library services for Indian tribes
The legislature finds that it is necessary to give the several boards of library trustees in this state additional powers in order to effectuate the ...

27.12.290 Violators may be excluded
A board of library trustees may exclude from the use of the library under its charge any person who wilfully and persistently violates any rule ...

27.12.300 Gifts -- Title to property
The title to money or property given to or for the use or benefit of a library shall vest in the board of trustees, to ...

27.12.305 Sale of library materials authorized -- Disposition of proceeds
Any public library, including the state library created pursuant to chapter 27.04 RCW, shall have the authority to provide for the sale of library materials ...

27.12.310 Charter provisions superseded
Every existing free public library shall be considered as if established under *this act, and the board of trustees and the legislative body of the ...

27.12.320 Dissolution -- Disposition of property
A library established or maintained under this chapter (except a regional or a rural county library district library, an intercounty rural library district library, or ...

27.12.321 School district public libraries abolished -- Disposition of assets
School district public libraries organized under chapter 119, Laws of 1935, as amended prior to *this 1965 amendatory act, are hereby abolished as of January ...

27.12.330 Penalty for injury to property
Whoever intentionally injures, defaces, or destroys any property belonging to or deposited in any public library, reading room, or other educational institution, shall be guilty ...

27.12.340 Wilfully retaining books -- Infraction
It is a class 4 civil infraction for any person to wilfully retain any book, newspaper, magazine, pamphlet, manuscript, or other property belonging in or ...

27.12.350 Executory conditional sales contracts for purchase of property -- Limit on indebtedness -- Election, when
See RCW 39.30.010. ...

27.12.355 Rural county library district, island library district, or intercounty rural library district -- Withdrawal or reannexation of areas
(1) As provided in this section, a rural county library district, island library district, or intercounty rural library district may withdraw areas from its boundaries, ...

27.12.360 Annexation of city or town into rural county library district, island library district, or intercounty rural library district -- Initiation procedure
Any city or town with a population of one hundred thousand or less at the time of annexation may become a part of any rural ...

27.12.370 Annexation of city or town into library district -- Special election procedure
The county legislative authority or authorities shall by resolution call a special election to be held in such city or town at the next special ...

27.12.380 Annexation of city or town into library district -- Withdrawal of annexed city or town
The legislative body of such a city or town which has annexed to such a library district, may, by resolution, present to the voters of ...

27.12.390 Annexation of city or town into library district -- Tax levies
The annual tax levy authorized by RCW 27.12.050, 27.12.150, and 27.12.420 shall be imposed throughout the library district, including any city or town annexed thereto. ...

27.12.395 Annexation of city or town into library district -- Assumption of liabilities
(1) All liabilities of a city or town that is annexed to a rural county library district or intercounty rural library district, which liabilities were ...

27.12.400 Island library districts -- Establishment -- Procedure
The procedure for the establishment of an island library district shall be as follows: (1) Petitions signed by at least ten percent of the registered ...

27.12.410 Island library districts -- Restrictions on establishment
An island library district may not be established if there is in existence a library district serving all of the area of the county not ...

27.12.420 Island library districts -- Board of trustees -- Tax levies
Immediately following the establishment of an island library district, the board of county commissioners shall appoint a board of library trustees for the district in ...

27.12.430 Island library districts -- Name may be adopted
The board of trustees of an island library district may adopt a name by which the district shall be known and under which it shall ...

27.12.440 Island library districts -- Powers and limitations for indebtedness
Except as otherwise specifically provided, island library districts and the trustees thereof shall have the same powers and limitations as are prescribed by RCW 27.12.060 ...

27.12.450 Island library districts -- Dissolution, when
If after an island library district serving a single island has been established, a rural county library district serving all of the area of the ...

27.12.470 Rural partial-county library districts
A rural partial-county library district may be created in a portion of the unincorporated area of a county as provided in this section if a ...