Kansas Library Laws

Read "Public Libraries" in The Kansas Public Library Handbook, 1988.

• Establishment, petition, resolution, election, transfer of city property, etc: 12-1236


• Can library districts be created from townships in more than one county or more than one regional library system? Attorney General Opinion 73-167


• Can district libraries lease their library building? Attorney General Opinion 78-285


• Townships donating money to library districts. Attorney General Opinion 82-180


• Can county commissioners dissolve a district library? Attorney General Opinion 78-243
  


• Establishment, election and annual tax levy: 12-1237


• Can district libraries be excluded from a regional library mill levy? Attorney General Opinion 73-312


• Election of directors, public notice of election: 12-1238


• Annual meeting time: 12-1239


• Annual meeting notice: 12-1240


• Notice of election of board of directors. Attorney General's Opinion 80-105


• Annual meeting, voting, officers, terms of directors, vacancies: 12-1241


• Board of directors powers: 12-1242



• Regular and special meetings: 12-1243


• Election on building and equipping library: 12-1244


• Can the library board of a district library call an election on issuing bonds for acquiring an existing building? Attorney General's Opinion 86-105


• Board of directors powers and duties: 12-1245


• Does Kansas law say Kansas libraries must or must not withhold the names of library card holders or the specific titles of items checked out by patrons? Attorney General Opinion 78-255


• Can district libraries get loans? Attorney General Opinion 76-40


• Board of directors - bond of treasurer, records and reports: 12-1246


• Tax levy, procedures to increase tax levy, certification of city clerk: 12-1247


• Townships donating money to library districts. Attorney General's Opinion 82-180


• Acceptance of grants: 12-1248


• Townships donating money to library districts. Attorney General's Opinion 82-180