AN ORDINANCE TO ESTABLISH A FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY, TO PROVIDE FOR 
THE APPOINTMENT, POWERS, AND DUTIES OF A BOARD OF LIBRARY 
TURSTEES, AND TO PROVIDE PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS.

Be it enacted by the Council of the City of Central City, Iowa:

SECTION 1. Establishment.
	
	There is hereby established a free public library for the use of the residents
of the City of Central City, Iowa and rural residents of Linn County, Iowa, to be known
as the J.C. Clegg Public Library.
	
SECTION 2. Library Trustees.
	
	The Mayor, with the approval of the City Council, shall appoint nine (9) persons
to constitute a Board of Library Trustees, hereafter referred to as the Board. He or she
shall appoint bonafide citizens and residents of the City of Central City, Iowa or rural
Linn County over the age of twenty-one (21) years. However, at no time shall more than
two members of the Board be non-residents of the City.	
	
SECTION 3. Organization of the Board.  
	
	1. Terms of office.  The originally appointed Trustees shall cast lots at their
first meeting to determine their respective terms of office and shall report the results to 
Council.  Three (3) Trustees shall hold office for two (2) years, three (3) Trustees 
shall hold office for four (4) years, and three (3) Trustees shall read six (6) years from 
the first day of July following the date of their appointment.  All subsequent 
appointments shall be for six (6) years, except to fill vacancies.

	2. Vacancies.  The position of any Trustee shall be vacant if he or she moves 
permanently from the City of Central City, Iowa, of if he or she is absent without due 
explanation from six (6) consecutive regular meetings of the Board, except in case of 
sickness, or if he or she is removed for cause by the Mayor with approval of the 
Council.  The Board may nominate for consideration by the Mayor nominees for 
appointment to fill any vacancy by appointment of a new Trustee to fill the unexpired 
term.  The Mayor, with the approval of the Council, is not bound to appoint a 
nominee of the Board, but may appoint his own nominee.

	3. Quorum and voting.  All action by the Board shall require a majority vote of the 
whole number of members appointed to the Board.  The removal of a Librarian, 
assistant or employee, however, shall require two-thirds (2/3) vote of the Board as 
provided in Section 4.5 of this Ordinance.

SECTION 4. Powers and Duties.

	The Board shall have an exercise the following powers and duties:

	1. To meet and elect from its members a President, Vice-President, a Secretary and
 	such other officers as it deems necessary. The City Clerk shall serve as Board
 	Treasurer, but shall not be a member of the Board.

	2. To have charge, control and supervision of the Library, its appurtenances,
 	fixtures and rooms.

	3. To direct and control all of the affairs of the Library.

	4. To employ a Librarian, assistants, and other employees necessary for the proper 
	management of the Library, and to fix their salaries.

	5. To remove by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the Board, the Librarian, assistants, or 
	employees for misdemeanor, incompetency or inattention to duty, subject to the
 	provisions of Chapter 70 Code of Iowa.

	6. To select and purchase all items considered necessary for the operation of the
 	Library within the budgetary limits set by the City Council.

	7. To authorize the use of the Library by non-residents of Linn County and to fix 
	charges for this privilege.

	8. To make and adopt, amend, modify or repeal By-Laws, rules and regulations for
 	the care, use, government and management of the Library and the business of the
 	Board, and to fix and enforce penalties for violations.  Copies of such By-Laws,
 	rules and regulations shall be posted in the Library where they can be seen by the
 	public.

	9. To control exclusively the expenditure of all portions of the municipal
 	enterprise fund allocated for the Library purposes by the Council, and of all the
 	money available by gift or otherwise for the erection of Library buildings, and of
 	all other money belonging to the Library fund, including fines and rentals
 	collected under the rules of the Board.

	10. To make and send to the Council, on or before the first day of January in each
 	year, an estimate of the amount necessary for the improvement, operation, and
 	maintenance of the Library for the coming year, the amounts expended for like
 	purposes for the two preceding years, and the amount of income expected for the
 	next fiscal year from sources other than taxation.

	11. To accept gifts, in the name of the Library, of real property, personal
 	property, or mixed property, and devises and bequests including trust funds, to
 	execute deeds and bills of sale for the conveyance of such property, and to expend
 	the funds received from such gifts for the improvement of the library.

	12. To enforce the performance of conditions on gifts, donations, devises, and
 	bequests accepted by the City of Central City, by action against the Council.

	13. To keep a record of its proceedings.

SECTION 5. Gifts to the City.

	All gifts, donations, devises, and bequests that may be 
made to the City explicitly and solely for the purpose of establishing, increasing, or 
improving the Library shall be administered by the Board.

SECTION 6. Power to Contract for the Use of the Library.

	1. The Board may contract with any other Town, City, School Corporation, Township, 
	County, or with the Trustees of a County Library district for the use of the
	Library by their respective residents.  Such a contract between the Board and a
	County shall supersede all contracts between the Board and Townships or School
	Corporations outside of cities or towns in that County.  All contracts levied by
	the other City, Town, School Corporation, Township, County or County Library
 	district.

	2. Termination.  Such a contract may be terminated at any time by mutual consent of
 	the contracting parties.  Such a termination proposition shall be submitted to the
 	electors by the governing body of a contracting party on a written petition of not
 	less than five (5) percent in number of the electors who voted for Governor in the
 	territory of the party at the last general election.  The petition must be 
	presented to the governing body not less than forty (40) days before the election.  	
	The proposition may be submitted at any election provided by law that is held in 	
	the territory of the party who is seeking to terminate the contract.

SECTION 7. Non-resident Use of the Library.

	The Board may authorize, the use of the Library by non-residents of the City in 
any one or more of the following ways:

	1. By lending library books to the non-residents on the same conditions as to 
	   residents of the City of Central City, Iowa.
	2. By establishing depositories of library books to be loaned to non-residents.
	3. By establishing a traveling library so that books may be loaned to non-
	   residents.
	4. By establishing branch libraries for lending books to non-residents.

SECTION 8. Annual Report.

	The Board shall make a report to the City Council immediately after the close of 
the municipal fiscal year.  This report shall contain statements of the condition of the
Library, the number of books added, the number circulated, the number lost or not returned,
the amount of fines collected, the amount of money expended for maintenance of the Library 
during the year, and further information required by the Council.

SECTION 10.  Recovery of Library Books.
	
	If any book or other property of the Library is retained by any person beyond the 
period provided by the rules and regulations of the Board and is not returned upon 
request of the Librarian, the Mayor, upon written request of the Board, may issue an 
order to the Linn County Sheriff’s Department to obtain the book or other property and to 
collect any fine set by the Board for such retention or for damage to the book or property.  
This order shall be sufficient authority for the Linn County Sheriff’s Department to take 
lawful possession of the book or the property, collect the fine, and return the book or 
property and the fine to the Librarian.

SECTION 11.  Injury to Library Property.

	Any person who willfully, maliciously or wantonly tears, defaces, mutilates, 
injures, or destroys, in whole or in part, any newspaper, periodical, book, map, chart, 
picture, or other property belonging to the Library shall be deemed guilty of a 
misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or 
imprisoned for not more than thirty (30) days.