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                                  HOUSE BILL 1950

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Representatives Horn, Haugen, Ferguson, Cooper, Nelson, Mitchell, Phillips, Neher, May, Holland, Zellinsky, Wood, Bray, Van Luven, Roland, Wynne, Vance, Nealey, Franklin, Rayburn, Brumsickle, Paris, Wilson, Edmondson and Forner.

Read first time February 15, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Local Government.Requiring reciprocal service agreements for certain library districts.

     AN ACT Relating to the relationship between city libraries and county rural library districts; and adding a new section to chapter 27.12 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 27.12 RCW to read as follows:

     Each county rural library district must enter into a reciprocal service agreement with each city or town located in the same county as the library district, if the city or town provides library services to its residents and the number of books per capita in the permanent library collection of the city or town is at least equal to the number of books per capita in the permanent library collection of the rural county library district.  The population of the entire county rural library district, including the population of any city or town that has annexed to the county rural library district, shall be used to calculate the number of books per capita for the county rural library district.

     Under a reciprocal service agreement, residents of the city or town may borrow materials and use the interlibrary loan system of the county rural library district, under the same conditions as the residents of the county rural library district shall be eligible to borrow materials and use the interlibrary loan system of the city or town library, under the same conditions as the residents of the city or town.

     If, after, January 1, 1992, a reciprocal service agreement has not been entered into, a city, town, or county rural library district may submit the matter to arbitration under chapter 7.04 RCW.