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1 AN ACT concerning libraries.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Illinois Library System Act is amended by
5 changing Section 5 as follows:
6 (75 ILCS 10/5) (from Ch. 81, par. 115)
7 Sec. 5. Each cooperative public library system or
8 multitype library system created by conversion of a
9 cooperative public library system as provided in Section 4 of
10 this Act shall be governed by a board of directors numbering
11 at least 5 and no more than 15 persons. In cooperative
12 public library systems the members shall be elected or
13 selected from the governing boards of the participating
14 public libraries. In multitype library systems the board
15 shall be representative of the variety of library interests
16 in the system, and at least a majority shall be elected or
17 selected from the governing boards of the member public
18 libraries, with not more than one director representing a
19 single member library. The number of directors, the manner
20 of election or selection, the term of office and the
21 provision for filling vacancies shall be determined by the
22 system governing board except that all board members must be
23 eligible electors in the geographical area of the system. No
24 director of any library system, however, shall be permitted
25 to serve for more than a total of 6 years unless 2 years have
26 elapsed since his sixth year of service.
27 The board of directors shall elect a president, secretary
28 and treasurer. Before entering upon his duties, the treasurer
29 shall be required to give a bond in an amount to be approved
30 by the board, but in no case shall such amount be less than
31 50% of the system's area and per capita grant for the
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1 previous year, conditioned that he will safely keep and pay
2 over upon the order of such board all funds received and held
3 by him for the library system. The funds of the library
4 system shall be deposited in a bank or savings and loan
5 association designated by the board of directors and shall be
6 expended only under the direction of such board upon properly
7 authenticated vouchers.
8 No bank or savings and loan association shall receive
9 public funds as permitted by this Section, unless it has
10 complied with the requirements established pursuant to
11 Section 6 of the Public Funds Investment Act.
12 The members of the board of directors of the library
13 system shall serve without compensation but their actual and
14 necessary expenses shall be a proper charge against the
15 library fund.
16 (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)