Chap. 314.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 351 of the Code of Virginia
(as it amended former Section 360 of the Code), relating to The Library
Board, appointment, terms, certain powers and duties, and so forth. [H 154]

Approved March 29, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section three hundred fifty-one of the Code of Virginia (as
it amended former section three hundred sixty of the Code), be amended
and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 351. Library Board, How Appointed; Term of Office;
Certain Powers and Duties——(a) The State Library shall be managed
by a board of directors, consisting of seven members, six to be appointed
by the Governor, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction ex officio,
which shall be and remain a corporation under the style of “The Library
Board” (sometimes called the ‘“Board”); but the Supreme Court of
Appeals shall have the management of the Law Library and shall appoint
the librarian and other employees of the Law Library.

(b) The directors in office when this amendment takes effect are
continued until their respective terms expire. On or before July one,
nineteen hundred forty-four, the Governor shall appoint two members
each for terms of five years, one to fill the vacancy then occurring, the
other the appointive member added by this amendment. Thereatter
within sixty days preceding July one of the year in which the terms
of office respectively of the members expire by limitation the Governor
shall appoint to fill the vacancies so occasioned qualified persons whose
terms shall be for five years from the day on which that of their im-
mediate predecessors expired.

(c) Appointments to fill other vacancies shall be for the unexpired
term.

(d) No person shall be eligible to serve for or during more than
two successive terms and incumbency during the current term when this
amendment takes effect constitutes the first of the two successive terms
with respect to eligibility for appointment.

(e) The Governor may remove any member for misconduct, in-
capacity, or neglect of duty and he shall be the sole judge of the suf-
ficiency of the cause for removal. He shall report every such removal
at once to the General Assembly if it is in session, and if not at the
beginning of the next session.

({) The Board shall meet and organize by electing one of its
number chairman. It shall appoint a librarian and other employees
whose terms of office shall be at the pleasure of the Board. The State
Librarian, assistants, and employees shall be paid such salaries from
appropriations out of the public treasury as are provided by law.

(g) The Board shall keep complete minutes of all its proceedings
neatly recorded in a substantial book, which shall be signed by the chair-
man and attested by the secretary, and a record of all receipts and dis-
bursements, all of which shall be preserved as public records.

(h) It may from time to time acquire books and other library
matter by gift, purchase, exchange, or loan; and may edit, or cause
to be edited, arranged and published, as the funds at its disposal permit,
the State records now or hereafter deposited in the library and such
other special matter as it deems of sufficient value. It shall make rules
and regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government and use
of the library, and may by general or special regulation determine what
books and other possessions of the library may not be removed there-
from.

(1) The Board shall superintend all expenditures of the library
funds.

(j) The members of the Board shall receive no compensation for
their services as such; but reasonable expenses incurred as members
of the Board in the discharge of their duties shall be paid out of library
funds.

(k) The Board shall annually make a report to the Governor
of all receipts and expenditures, and of the condition of the library, and
all other matters in relation thereto that it deems expedient for his
information and that of the General Assembly.

(1) It may purchase and procure books and other necessary equip-
ment for the establishment of libraries known as “traveling libraries” ;
and may engage in such promotional activities in aid of city, county,
regional, and other public libraries as will serve to develop the library
system of the State. (Code eighteen hundred eighty-seven, section two
hundred fifty-four; nineteen hundred two, three and four, page eight
hundred seventy-three; nineteen hundred four, page ninety-four; nine-
teen hundred sixteen, page seven hundred forty-five; Code nineteen
hundred nineteen, section three hundred sixty. )