010-88-Ordinance-Library Board Appointment Term and Qualifications-06/10/1988CITY OF SANGER
ORDINANCE 010-88
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A LIBRARY BOARD, PROVIDING
FOR THE APPOINTMENT, TERM OF OFFICE, QUALIFICATIONAND
DEFINING THE POWER AND DUTIES OF SAID BOARD, PROVIDING
FOR REPEAL OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT, A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS:
SECTION I
A. Creation and Appointment of Board, Qualifications and
Terms of Office
There is hereby created a Library Board to be composed of
a Chairperson and six (6) members, appointed -by the City
Council and they shall serve from July 1 of the year of
appointment for staggered terms of two (2) years, and may
be re -appointed to three (3) successive terms of office for
a total of six (6) years, subject to approval by the City
Council. The members of the board shall be identified by
place numbers one (1) through seven (7). The even numbered
places shall expire in the even numbered years; the odd
numbered places shall expire in the odd numbered years.
Said determination of respective places shall be deter-.
mined by lottery at the initial, meeting of --board following
adoption of this ordinance and -appointment of the members.
Newly appointed members shall be installed at the first
regular board meeting after their appointment. Vacancies
shall be filled for any unexpired term in the same manner
as provided for regular appointments. Each member of the
Board shall be entitled to one vote. The City Librarian
shall serve as an ex-officio member of the Board.
B. Qualifications of Board Members.
Members of the Library Board shall have the same qualifi-
cations as are required for membership on the Sanger Indepen-
fnt School District Board,
C. Selection of Officers
At its organizational meeting, and annually thereafter when
new members are appointed to the Library Board by the City
Council, the Board shall elect from its own membership a
vice -chairperson and a secretary. Any four (4) of the regu-
larly appointed members shall constitute a quorum. The
Board shall determine its own rules and order of business.
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The Board shall meet at least once a
times as called by the Chairperson or
the Board; all meetings shall be open
shall be posted as according to the
Meetings Act, and a permanent record
be maintained.
quarter and at other
four (4) members of
to the public; and
Texas State Open
of proceedings shall
D. Powers and Duties of the Library Board
1. The Board shall serve the City of Sanger as a consulting,
advisory, supervis037y body to study and recommend policies
relating to the operation, promotion, enlargement, future
planning, and such other matters involving the city -owned
Library as may be referred to it by the City Council.
2. The annual budget for the Library shall be prepared by
the Board and submitted to the City Administrator for
review and submittal to the City Council for final adoption.
Proposed expenditures during the year that are not included
in the budget adopted by the City Council shall be referred
to the City Administrator for review and submittal to the
City Council for budget admendment.
3. Reports to or items requiring action by the City Council
shall be submitted to the City Administrator for review
and submittal to the City Council.
E. Library rules and regulations
The general rules and regulations for the operation and use
of the library shall be promulgated by the Library Board and
approved by the City Council. The books, newspapers, magazines,
pamphlets, manuscripts, or other property of the city public
library shall be the property of the city, any person injuring
or defacing any such property shall be liable to account
therefor to the librarian. The Library Board shall have
authority to establish fines for any person retaining any
such book, newspaper, magazine, pamphlet, manuscript or other
property beyond the expiration of the time which by the rules
of the library such property may be kept.
F. Illegal removal of materials; fine.
Every person, parent or guardian of a child: who is under the
age of seventeen (17) years, who shall take or borrow from
t#e Sanger Public Library any book, pamphlet, periodical,
paper or. •other property except in accordance with the rules
of such library, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of
not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than twenty-five
dollars ($25.00) for each offense.
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G. Return of borrowed materials; fine.
Every person, parent or guardian of a child under the age
of seventeen (17) years who shall take or borrow from the
Sanger Public Library any book, pamphlet, periodical, paper
or other property and neglect, refuse or fail to return the
same within two (2) weeks after the date of mailing a notice
by certified mail with return receipt requested to his or her
address noted on the current library card shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof, shall be
punished by a fine not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200.00)
for each offense, plus all fines normally assessed by the
library for each day's violation of its rules.
H. Defacinct of library materials, fine.
Every person, parent or guardian of a child under the age of
seventeen (17) years who shall willfully or wantonly cut,
mutilate, mark, tear, write upon, deface or otherwise destroy
or injure in whole or in part, any book, pamphlet, periodical,
map or document, picture, or written or engraved or printed
paper or any other library property belonging to the city of
The Sanger Public Library, or shall suffer any such injury to
be inflicted while such property is in his custody, or shall
willfully or wantonly injure any of the furniture or property
in,the building of The Sanger Public Library, or shall will-
fully or wantonly mark or deface or in any way injure The
Sanger Public Library or any part thereof, or any fixtures
therein or appurtenances thereto, shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished
by a fine of not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than
two hundred dollars ($200.00) for each offense.
I. Penalties
That any .person, parent or guardian of a child under the age
of seventeen (17) years who violates any of the provisions
of this chapter shall be subject to the penalties as provided
for herein, and where the amount of .the penalty is not speci-
fically provided for herein, any person guilty of violating
any of the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to a
fine not exceed the sum of two hundred dollars ($200.00) for
each offense.
SECTIONII
All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith
are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed.
SECTION III
It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council
CITY SECRETARY
ORIGINAL COPY
that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, and
phrases of the Ordinance are severable and, if any phrase,
clause, sentence, paragraph, or section of this.Ordinance
shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid judgment or
decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such unconsti-
tutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases,
clauses, sentences, paragraphs, and sections of this Ordi-
nance, since the same would have been enacted by the City
Council without the incorporation in this Ordinance of any such
unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, or section.
SECTION IV
This Ordinance will take effect immediately from and after
its passage and the publication of the caption as the law in
such cases provides.
PASSED AND APPROVED this day of ` 1 _ _, &J'
by the City Council of the City of Sanger, Texas,
APPROVED:
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Secretary