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                          HOUSE BILL 2763

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State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By Representatives Lisk and Rayburn

Read first time 01/24/94.  Referred to Committee on Local Government.

Changing initial terms for library trustee appointments.

    AN ACT Relating to library trustee appointment terms; and amending RCW 27.12.190.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 27.12.190 and 1982 c 123 s 8 are each amended to read as follows:

    The management and control of a library shall be vested in a board of either five or seven trustees as hereinafter in this section provided.  In cities and towns five trustees shall be appointed by the mayor with the consent of the legislative body.  In counties, rural county library districts, and island library districts, five trustees shall be appointed by the board of county commissioners.  In a regional library district a board of either five or seven trustees shall be appointed by the joint action of the legislative bodies concerned.  In intercounty rural library districts a board of either five or seven trustees shall be appointed by the joint action of the boards of county commissioners of each of the counties included in a district.  The first appointments for boards comprised of but five trustees shall be for terms of one, two, and three years, and two of four((, and five)) years respectively, and thereafter a trustee shall be appointed annually to serve for ((five)) four years.  The first appointments for boards comprised of seven trustees shall be for terms of one, two, three, and four((, five, six, and seven)) years respectively, and thereafter a trustee shall be appointed annually to serve for ((seven)) four years.  No person shall be appointed to any board of trustees for more than two consecutive terms.  Vacancies shall be filled for unexpired terms as soon as possible in the manner in which members of the board are regularly chosen.

    A library trustee shall not receive a salary or other compensation for services as trustee, but necessary expenses actually incurred shall be paid from the library funds.

    A library trustee in the case of a city or town may be removed only by vote of the legislative body.  A trustee of a county library, a rural county library district library, or an island library district library may be removed for just cause by the county commissioners after a public hearing upon a written complaint stating the ground for removal, which complaint, with a notice of the time and place of hearing, shall have been served upon the trustee at least fifteen days before the hearing.  A trustee of an intercounty rural library district may be removed by the joint action of the board of county commissioners of the counties involved in the same manner as provided herein for the removal of a trustee of a county library.

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