Status and duties of Public Library Board
11(1)A Public Library Board shall be a body corporate known as (insert the name of the community here) Public Library Board.
11(2)A Public Library Board
(a)
may receive, hold and administer bequests and gifts of real and personal property and raise funds for library use,
(b)
may augment materials in a library, including collections of a special local interest, with the approval of the Provincial Librarian,
(c)
may initiate, facilitate and augment local library programs,
(d)
may recruit volunteers to assist with the provision and delivery of library services,
(e)
may perform those activities conducive to proper public library service in the community,
(f)
may vote for the representative from the library region who is to sit as a member of the New Brunswick Public Libraries Board,
(g)
shall enter into an arrangement with the Minister respecting the delivery of library services,
(h)
shall submit annually an estimate in detail of its requirements to the municipality or association of persons with respect to equipping and maintaining the library,
(i)
shall submit to the Minister, in advance of the Province’s annual budget process, an estimate in detail for the following year of its requirements with respect to staff, materials and incidental expenditures, and
(j)
shall submit to the Minister and municipality or association of persons at the end of each year a report of its activities.
R.S.1973, c.L-5, s.15; 1997, c.49, s.17