Texas Local Government Code Title 10, Chapter 336 - Multi-jurisdictional Library Districts

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 336.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Board" means the district's board of trustees. (2) "District" means a multi-jurisdictional library district created under this chapter. (3) "Executive director"...
• Texas Section 336.002 - Nature Of District
  A district created under this chapter is a special district and a political subdivision of this state. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 883...

SUBCHAPTER B CREATION OF DISTRICT; ELECTIONS

• Texas Section 336.003 - Multi-jurisdictional Public Library
  (a) A district created under this chapter shall establish, equip, support, operate, and maintain one or more public libraries for the dissemination of educational programs...
• Texas Section 336.021 - Lead Governmental Entity; Participation By Other Counties And Municipalities
  (a) A district may be created by a lead governmental entity that, by resolution, proposes the creation of a district for specific counties and municipalities...
• Texas Section 336.022 - Territory Included In District
  (a) The lead governmental entity shall describe the initial district territory in the resolution creating the district under Section 336.021. The initial district territory must...
• Texas Section 336.023 - Election
  (a) A district may call an election to approve one or both of the following: (1) a sales tax; or (2) an ad valorem tax...
• Texas Section 336.027 - Ballot Proposition
  (a) If the board calls an election to approve a sales tax, the ballot for the election shall be printed to permit voting for or...
• Texas Section 336.028 - Results Of Election
  (a) If a majority of the voters voting in the election favor the adoption of a sales tax or of an ad valorem tax, the...
• Texas Section 336.029 - Initial Board And Presiding Officer
  (a) Appointments to the initial board are made as provided by Subchapter C, except that the initial trustees shall agree to stagger their terms, with...

SUBCHAPTER C BOARD OF TRUSTEES

• Texas Section 336.030 - Repayment Of Organizational Expenses
  (a) The district may: (1) pay all costs and expenses necessarily incurred in the creation and organization of the district; and (2) reimburse any person...
• Texas Section 336.051 - Governing Body
  A district is governed by a seven-member board of trustees. The board has control over and shall manage the affairs of the district. Added by...
• Texas Section 336.052 - Appointment
  (a) The lead governmental entity shall appoint four trustees to the board. (b) The most populous county in which the district is located shall appoint...
• Texas Section 336.053 - Eligibility For Appointment
  A person is eligible for appointment to the board if the person: (1) resides in the district; (2) is registered to vote in a county...
• Texas Section 336.054 - Terms
  (a) Trustees serve staggered two-year terms. (b) A trustee may not serve more than two consecutive terms or more than four terms. (c) A trustee...
• Texas Section 336.055 - Vacancy
  A vacancy on the board shall be filled by appointment for the remainder of the unexpired term by the governmental entity that appointed the vacating...
• Texas Section 336.056 - Officers
  (a) The board shall elect a trustee to serve as the board's presiding officer. The presiding officer presides at all board meetings and is the...
• Texas Section 336.057 - Meetings And Notice
  (a) The board may establish regular meetings to conduct district business and may hold special meetings at other times as the business of the district...

SUBCHAPTER D OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 336.058 - Conflict Of Interest In Contract
  (a) For purposes of this section, a trustee who is an employee of, or a trustee related within the second degree by affinity or consanguinity...
• Texas Section 336.101 - Bylaws
  The board may adopt bylaws to govern: (1) the time, place, and manner of conducting board meetings; (2) the powers, duties, and responsibilities of the...
• Texas Section 336.102 - Employees
  (a) The board may employ any person the board considers necessary for conducting the district's affairs. (b) The board may remove any employee. Added by...
• Texas Section 336.103 - Executive Director
  (a) The board may employ an executive director to administer the affairs of the district under policies and requirements established by the board. (b) The...
• Texas Section 336.104 - Qualifications Of Executive Director Or Library Director
  The board shall ensure that the executive director or a subordinate library director has all necessary qualifications to oversee library services in the district. Added...
• Texas Section 336.105 - Bond
  The board may require an officer or employee to execute a bond payable to the district and conditioned on the faithful performance of the person's...
• Texas Section 336.106 - Employee Plans
  (a) The board may provide for and administer a workers' compensation, health benefit, retirement, disability, or death compensation plan for district employees. (b) The board...

SUBCHAPTER E POWERS AND DUTIES

• Texas Section 336.107 - Records; Secretary
  (a) The secretary is responsible for ensuring that all district books and other records are properly maintained. (b) The board may appoint the executive director...
• Texas Section 336.151 - General Powers Of District
  A district has all authority necessary to accomplish district purposes. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 883 (S.B. 1205), Sec. 2, eff. June 17,
• Texas Section 336.152 - Rules; Violation Of Rules
  (a) The board may adopt reasonable rules to accomplish district purposes. (b) The board may set monetary charges in reasonable amounts for the violation of...
• Texas Section 336.153 - Location Of Public Library Facilities
  A district may locate a public library facility at any place in the district, including the territory of a political subdivision within the district. Added...
• Texas Section 336.154 - Contracts
  A district may contract with any person for any district purpose. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 883 (S.B. 1205), Sec. 2, eff. June...
• Texas Section 336.155 - Agreements With Other Political Subdivisions
  (a) A district may contract with a municipality, county, or other political subdivision for the district to provide public library services outside the district. (b)...
• Texas Section 336.156 - Property And Equipment
  (a) A district may construct, acquire, own, lease, operate, maintain, repair, or improve any land, works, materials, supplies, improvements, facilities, equipment, vehicles, machinery, appliances, or...
• Texas Section 336.157 - Surplus Property
  A district may sell, lease, or dispose of in any other manner and at any time: (1) any right, interest, or property of the district...
• Texas Section 336.158 - Suits
  (a) A district may sue and be sued in any court of this state in the name of the district. (b) A court of this...
• Texas Section 336.159 - Expansion Of District
  (a) The district may expand to include additional territory if the commissioners court of the county in which the district is located holds an election...

SUBCHAPTER F GENERAL FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 336.160 - Donation Of Library Assets By County Or Municipality
  A county or municipality, including the lead governmental entity, that creates or joins the district may donate library assets to the district without compensation from...
• Texas Section 336.201 - Borrowing
  A district may borrow money. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 883 (S.B. 1205), Sec. 2, eff. June 17, 2005.
• Texas Section 336.202 - Fees; General
  (a) A district may impose any necessary charges or fee for providing a district service. (b) A district may discontinue a service to enforce payment...
• Texas Section 336.203 - Library Fees
  A library created under this chapter may charge reasonable fees to remove certain materials from the library or for other services provided by the library....
• Texas Section 336.204 - Depository
  (a) The board shall designate one or more banks inside or outside of the district to serve as the depository for district money. (b) The...
• Texas Section 336.205 - Expenditures
  A district may disburse district money only by check, draft, money order, or another instrument that must be signed by one or more officers or...
• Texas Section 336.206 - Accounts And Records; Audits
  (a) A district shall keep a complete system of accounts. (b) The district shall have an annual audit of the district affairs performed by an...
• Texas Section 336.207 - Fiscal Year
  The fiscal year of the district is from October 1 to September 30, unless the board adopts another fiscal year. Added by Acts 2005, 79th...

SUBCHAPTER G TAXES

• Texas Section 336.208 - Grants And Donations
  A district may accept and administer a grant or donation from any source for any district purpose. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 883...
• Texas Section 336.251 - Ad Valorem Tax Assessment And Collection
  (a) A district may impose an ad valorem tax. (b) If the district imposes an ad valorem tax, the board shall have the taxable property...
• Texas Section 336.252 - Imposition, Computation, Administration, And Governance Of Sales Tax
  (a) A district may impose a sales and use tax. (b) Chapter 323, Tax Code, to the extent not inconsistent with this chapter, governs the...
• Texas Section 336.253 - Sales And Use Tax Rates
  The permissible rates for a sales and use tax imposed under this chapter are one-eighth of one percent, one-fourth of one percent, three-eighths of one...
• Texas Section 336.254 - Abolition Of Or Change In Ad Valorem Tax Rate
  (a) The board by order may decrease or abolish the ad valorem tax rate or may call an election to increase, decrease, or abolish the...

SUBCHAPTER H BONDS

• Texas Section 336.255 - Use Of Tax
  A tax collected under this subchapter may be used only for a district purpose and may be pledged as collateral for borrowing money to further...
• Texas Section 336.301 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "bond" includes a note. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 883 (S.B. 1205), Sec. 2, eff. June 17, 2005.
• Texas Section 336.302 - General Power To Issue Bonds
  (a) A district may issue bonds at any time and for any amount it considers necessary or appropriate to acquire, construct, equip, or improve district...
• Texas Section 336.303 - Lead Governmental Entity's Consent Required
  The district may not issue bonds under this subchapter unless the lead governmental entity's governing body by resolution consents to the issuance. Added by Acts...
• Texas Section 336.304 - Short-term Bonds
  (a) The board by resolution may issue bonds that are secured by revenue or taxes of the district if the bonds: (1) have a term...
• Texas Section 336.305 - Election Required For Certain Bonds Secured By Taxes
  Except for short-term bonds issued under Section 336.304, bonds payable wholly or partly from taxes may not be issued unless authorized by a majority of...
• Texas Section 336.306 - Security Pledged
  (a) To secure the payment of a district's bonds, the district may: (1) pledge all or part of revenue realized from any tax that the...
• Texas Section 336.307 - Lien On Revenue
  The expense of operation and maintenance of library facilities, including salaries, labor, materials, and repairs necessary to provide efficient service, and every other proper item...
• Texas Section 336.308 - Exchange Of Bonds For Existing Library Facilities
  A district's revenue bonds may be exchanged, in lieu of cash, for the property of all or part of existing library facilities to be acquired...

SUBCHAPTER I DISSOLUTION

• Texas Section 336.309 - Governmental Entities Not Responsible For District Obligations
  A governmental entity, other than the district, is not required to pay a bond or other district obligation. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch....
• Texas Section 336.351 - Procedure For Dissolution
  (a) The board by resolution may dissolve a district if the governing body of the lead governmental entity by resolution consents to the dissolution. (b)...

Last modified: September 28, 2016