FIRST REGULAR SESSION
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES WILSON (119), SMITH (118), WASSON, SCHLOTTACH, WALLACE, SANDER, COOPER (120) (Co-sponsors), LIPKE, DETHROW, ANGST, GOODMAN, TAYLOR, RECTOR, SELF, BISHOP, BURNETT, YOUNG, WALKER, BOUGH, CRAWFORD, RICHARD, HOBBS, KING, SUTHERLAND AND SMITH (14).
Read 1st time February 27, 2003, and copies ordered printed.
STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 182.050, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to county library boards.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 182.050, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 182.050, to read as follows:
182.050. 1. For the purpose of carrying into effect sections 182.010 to 182.120, in case a county library district is established and a free county library authorized as provided in section 182.010, within sixty days after the establishment of the county library district, there shall be created a county library board of trustees, of five members, who shall be residents of the library district, none of whom shall be elected county officials. The members shall be appointed by the county commission for terms of four years each, except that as to the members of the first board, two shall be appointed for one year, and one each shall be appointed for two years, three years, and four years, respectively, from the first day of July following their appointment; and annually thereafter before the first day of July the county commission shall appoint successors. Vacancies in the board occasioned by removals, resignations or otherwise shall be reported to the county commission and shall be filled in like manner as original appointments; except that if the vacancy is in an unexpired term, the appointment shall be made for only the unexpired portion of that term. No member of the board shall receive compensation as such. No person shall be employed by the board of library trustees or by the librarian who is related within the third degree by blood or by marriage to any trustee of the board.
2. In lieu of the appointment process in this subsection, any county of the third classification may elect library board members pursuant to this subsection at the general election in 2006 and every four years thereafter. Appointed library board members in each county desiring to elect members pursuant to this subsection shall continue the term in office until a successor is elected. A library board member elected pursuant to this section shall serve a term of four years until a successor is elected. Any vacancies on an elected board due to resignation, removals, or incapacity shall be filled by appointment by the county commission for the remainder of the unexpired term.