New York Education Law Part 2 - LIBRARIES

• 245 - State Library, How Constituted.
  All books, pamphlets, manuscripts, records, archives and maps, and all other property appropriate to a general library, if owned by the state and not placed...
• 246 - State Medical Library.
  The state medical library shall be a part of the New York state library under the same government and regulations and shall be open for...
• 247 - State Law Library; Legislative Reference Library.
  The state law library and the legislative reference library shall be parts of the New York state library under the same government and regulations and...
• 248 - Manuscript and Records "on File".
  Manuscript or printed papers of the legislature, usually termed "on file," and which shall have been on file more than five years in custody of...
• 249 - State Library, When Open; Use of Books.
  The state library shall be kept open at least eight hours each day on five days every week in the year except the legal holidays...
• 249-a - Libraries of Public Institutions of Higher Education; Access and Use.
  The state university trustees and the board of higher education of the city of New York are hereby authorized to establish such rules and regulations...
• 250 - Duplicate Department.
  The regents shall have charge of the preparation, publication and distribution, whether by sale, exchange or gift, of the colonial history, natural history and all...
• 251 - Transfers From State Officers.
  The librarian of any library owned by the state, or the officer in charge of any state department, bureau, board, commission or other office may,...
• 252 - Other Libraries Owned by the State.
  The report of the state library to the legislature shall include a statement of the total number of volumes or pamphlets, the number added during...
• 253 - Public and Association Libraries and Museums.
  1. All provisions of this section and of sections two hundred fifty-four to two hundred seventy-one inclusive shall apply equally to libraries, museums, and to...
• 254 - Standards of Library Service.
  The regents shall have power to fix standards of library service for every free association, public and hospital library or, with the advice of the...
• 255 - Establishment of a Public Library.
  1. By a majority vote at any election, or at a meeting of the electors duly held, any county, city, village, town, school district or...
• 256 - Contracts.
  1. Any authority named in section two hundred fifty-five may, individually or jointly with another municipal or district body or tribal government, grant money for...
• 257 - Acceptance of Conditional Gift.
  By majority vote at any election or at a meeting of the electors, duly held, any municipality or district or by three-fourths vote of its...
• 258 - Closing of Museum; Admission Fee During Certain Hours.
  The trustees of any institution supported under this chapter by public money, in whole or in part, may, so far as consistent with free use...
• 258-a - Purchases by Museums, Historical Societies, Zoological Gardens, Aquariums, Botanical Gardens and Arboreta Through Office of General Services.
  Museums, historical societies, zoological gardens, aquariums, botanical gardens and arboreta which are chartered or incorporated by the regents or otherwise formed pursuant to section two...
• 259 - Library Taxes.
  1. a. Taxes, in addition to those otherwise authorized, may be voted for library purposes by any authority named in section two hundred fifty-five of...
• 260 - Trustees.
  1. Public libraries authorized to be established by action of the voters or their representatives shall be managed by trustees who shall have all the...
• 260-a - Meetings of Board of Trustees.
  Every meeting, including a special district meeting, of a board of trustees of a public library system, cooperative library system, public library or free association...
• 260-b - Reduction of Salaries for Purchase of Annuities.
  Each board of trustees of a library system, cooperative library system, public library or free association library in its discretion, may enter into a written...
• 260-c - Reduction of Salaries for Tax-Deferred Annuities.
  The board of trustees of a library system, cooperative library system, public library or free association library, in its discretion, may enter into a written...
• 261 - Incorporation.
  Within one month after taking office, the first board of trustees of any such public library or Indian library shall apply to the regents for...
• 262 - Use of Public and Indian Libraries.
  Every library established under section two hundred fifty-five of this chapter shall be forever free to the inhabitants of the municipality or district or Indian...
• 263 - Reports.
  Every library or museum, other than a school library, which enjoys any exemption from taxation or receives state aid or other privilege not usually accorded...
• 264 - Injuries to Property.
  Whoever intentionally injures, defaces or destroys any property belonging to or deposited in any incorporated library, reading-room, museum or other educational institution, shall be punished...
• 265 - Detention.
  Whoever wilfully detains any book, newspaper, magazine, pamphlet, manuscript or other property belonging to any public or incorporated library, reading-room, museum or other educational institution,...
• 265-a - Defense of Lawful Detention.
  In any action for false arrest, false imprisonment, unlawful detention, defamation of character, assault, trespass or invasion of civil rights brought by any person by...
• 266 - Transfer of Libraries.
  By vote similar to that required by section two hundred fifty-five of this chapter any municipality or district or tribal government or combination of districts,...
• 267 - Local Neglect.
  If the local authorities of any library supported wholly or in part by state money fail to provide for the support of such library and...
• 268 - Abolition.
  Any library established by public vote of any municipality or district, or by vote of the common council of any city, or by vote of...
• 269 - Library Extension Service.
  By such means, in such manner and upon such conditions as the regents may prescribe, they shall make provision for a library extension service for...
• 270 - Acceptance of Surplus Library Books or Property.
  The state education department is hereby authorized to cooperate with the United States commissioner of education, the war assets administration, and/or other federal officers and...
• 271 - Apportionment of State Aid to Indian Libraries.
  Any Indian library chartered by the regents or in the absence of such library any tribal government contracting for service from a chartered and registered...
• 272 - Conditions Under Which Library Systems are Entitled to State Aid.
  1. Public library systems. a. The term "public library system" as used in this article means: (1) A library established by one or more counties....
• 273 - Apportionment of State Aid to Libraries and Library Systems.
  1. Any public library system providing service under an approved plan during a calendar year shall be entitled to receive during that calendar year state...
• 273-a - State Aid for Library Construction.
  * 1. State aid shall be provided for up to fifty percent of the total project approved costs, excluding feasibility studies, plans or similar activities,...
• 274 - Use and Care of School Library.
  The school library shall be a part of the school equipment and shall be kept in the school building at all times. Such library shall...
• 275 - Librarians of School Libraries.
  In a school district maintaining an academic department or high school the board of education may employ, and fix the compensation of, a person to...
• 276 - Existing Rules Continued in Force.
  All existing provisions of law and rules established by the commissioner of education for the management of public school libraries shall hold good as to...
• 277 - Authority to Raise and Receive Money for School Library.
  Each city and school district in the state is hereby authorized to raise moneys by tax in the same manner as other school moneys are...
• 278 - Authority to Transfer School Library Property to a Free Library.
  The board of education in any city or union free school district or the electors of any other district, by legal vote duly approved by...
• 279 - Fees.
  A fee of five dollars shall be paid for each public librarian's certificate or school librarian's certificate issued under part two of this article.
• 280 - Penalty for Disobedience to Library Law, Rules or Orders.
  The commissioner of education is hereby authorized to withhold its share of public school moneys from any city or district which uses school library moneys...
• 281 - Loans and Extensions of Credit to Infants.
  A contract hereafter made by an infant after he has attained the age of sixteen years in relation to obtaining a loan or extension of...
• 282 - Establishment of School Library Systems.
  The commissioner is authorized to approve the establishment of school library systems, each system to be composed of school districts which are located within a...
• 283 - Functions of School Library Systems.
  The functions of school library systems shall include but not be limited to: (a) creating and developing a union catalog of materials listing the resources...
• 284 - State Aid for School Library Systems.
  1. Each school library system established pursuant to section two hundred eighty-two of this part and operating under a plan approved by the commissioner shall...
• 285 - State Aid for Cooperation With Correctional Facilities.
  1. Each public library system operating under an approved plan of service which has a state correctional facility or facilities within its area of service...

Last modified: February 3, 2019