[Ord. No. 5-94 § 2-22.1]
There is hereby established a Free Public Library within the
corporate limits of the Borough of Jamesburg.
[Ord. No. 5-94 § 2-22.2]
a.
Corporate Name; Organization. The Board of Trustees shall be a body
corporate under the name of The Trustees of the Free Public Library
of the Borough of Jamesburg. It shall have corporate powers of succession,
may sue and be sued and adopt a corporate seal. It shall meet at a
convenient time and place in the Borough within 10 days after its
appointment, and shall immediately proceed to organize by the election
from its members of a President, Treasurer and Secretary who shall
hold their offices for one year until their successors are elected.
b.
Recording and Filing. The members shall make and execute under their
hand and seal a certificate setting forth their appointment and their
organization and the names of the offices elected. The certificate
shall be acknowledged in the same manner as is required of conveyances
of real estate, and recorded in the Middlesex County Clerk's
Office. A certified copy of the certificate shall be sent to the Secretary
of State to be filed of record.
c.
Membership, Appointment and Term. A Board of Trustees shall be formed
to consist of nine members, one of whom shall be the Mayor and one
of whom shall be the local Superintendent of Schools. Additionally,
six of whom shall be residents of the Borough. The appointments shall
be for terms of one, two, three, four and five years, respectively
as they may be selected by the Mayor with the advice and consent of
the Council.
d.
Alternates. The Mayor and Superintendent of Schools, serving as a
member of the Board, may appoint an alternate to act in his place
and stead with authority to attend all meetings of the Board, in his
absence, to vote on all questions before the Board.
e.
Vacancies. Upon the expiration of the term of office of any Trustee,
the Mayor shall appoint a citizen for a term of five years with the
advice and consent of the Council. Vacancies occurring in the Board
of Trustees shall be filled for the unexpired term only, in the same
manner as the original appointment was made.
[Ord. No. 5-94 § 2-22.3]
The Trustees shall receive no compensation for their services,
and shall not incur any expense or enter into any obligations to an
amount in excess of the annual appropriation for library purposes
and of the funds on hand.
[Ord. No. 5-94 § 2-22.4]
The Treasurer of the Board shall give bond in an amount to be
fixed by the Borough Council payable to the Borough by its corporate
name, conditioned for the faithful performance and discharge of its
duties. The Board shall, by its Treasurer, upon its warrant signed
by its President, receive from the disbursing officer of the Borough,
the money raised therein for library purposes.
[Ord. No. 5-94 § 2-22.5]
The Board shall hold in trust and manage all property of the
library. It may rent rooms, or when proper, construct buildings for
the use of the library, purchase books, pamphlets, documents, papers
and other reading matter, hire librarians, and other necessary personnel,
and fix their compensation, make proper rules and regulations for
the government of the library, and generally do all things necessary
and proper for the establishment and maintenance of the Free Public
Library in the Borough.
[Ord. No. 5-94 § 2-22.6]
The Board of Trustees shall annually make a report of its transactions,
accounts and the state and condition of the library to the Borough
Council.
[Ord. No. 5-94 § 2-22.7]
The Borough Council shall annually appropriate and raise by
taxation, a sum equal to one-third of a mil on every dollar of assessable
property within the Borough. The Council may, in its judgment, appropriate
such additional sum as it deems necessary for the proper maintenance
of a Free Public Library, such sum to be raised by taxation annually.
[Ord. No. 5-94 § 2-22.8]
The Borough Council may appropriate in the annual budget, for
the use of the free public library of the Borough, a sum equal to
the amount of money paid into the general treasury by the free public
library in the preceding fiscal year. This sum so appropriated shall
be available for expenditure by the Board of Trustees of the Free
Public Library for library purposes, and shall be in addition to sums
otherwise appropriated by law for library purposes and shall be controlled
by the same laws as other budget appropriations.
[Ord. No. 5-94 § 2-22.9]
The Board of Trustees of the Free Public Library may invest
its funds in any interest bearing obligations of the United States
of America, or in interest bearing bonds of the State of New Jersey,
or any county or municipality of the State, or in any other securities
authorized for investments by Trustees under and in accordance with
the provisions of N.J.S.A. 3A:15-2; provided the authorization to
invest in any such obligations or bonds or securities shall be by
resolution adopted by a majority vote of all of the members of the
Board.
[Ord. No. 5-94 § 2-22.10]
The Board of Trustees of the Free Public Library may use and
expend for library purposes all monies received from library fines
and shall account for such receipts and expenditures in the same manner
as is required as to funds appropriated to the Board of Trustees by
the Borough Council.
[Ord. No. 5-94 § 2-22.11]
The Board of Trustees may receive, hold and manage any devise,
bequest or donation heretofore made or hereafter to be made, and given
for the establishment, increase or maintenance of the Free Public
Library within the Borough.
[Ord. No. 5-94 § 2-22.12]
The Free Public Library may accept gifts and bequests of paintings,
statuary, ceramics and other art objects, and may care for and maintain
them in accordance with the provisions of such gift or bequest.
[Ord. No. 10-94 §§ 1
— 6]
a.
Failure to return book or property prohibited. No person shall detain
or fail to return any book, periodical, pamphlet, artistic reproduction,
phonograph recording, audiovisual material, VCR or any other article
borrowed from the Jamesburg Public Library, hereinafter referred to
as "Library," after 10 days have elapsed from the date of posting
by certified mail, return receipt requested, of a notice demanding
return thereof and informing the person in such notice that the book
or material is overdue and that such person is subject to prosecution
pursuant to this section. Such notice shall be mailed to the person
at the last known address that the person furnished to the Library.
b.
Failure to pay fine notice. Any person who shall fail to pay any
fine due and assessed for overdue borrowed materials or articles under
established rules and regulation of the library, shall be liable to
the penalties set forth in paragraph f herein, if the fine is not
paid after 10 days have elapsed following the date of posting by certified
mail, return receipt requested, of a written notice addressed to such
person at their last address furnished to the library, which notice
shall state the fine due, demand the payment thereof and advise such
person of the penalty for violations of this section.
c.
Damaging of a book or other library property prohibited. No person
shall cut, tear, deface, disfigure, damage or destroy any book or
any other library article or any part thereof which is owned by, or
is in the custody of the Jamesburg Public Library of the Borough of
Jamesburg.
d.
Giving false information prohibited. No person shall register or
furnish a false name or address, or use any card other than the one
issued to the person for the purpose of borrowing any book or any
article or material from such library.
e.
Enforcement. The provisions of this section shall be enforced by
the Director of the Library or such person as may be designated by
the Board of Trustees of the Library. That person shall be authorized
to file a complaint in Municipal Court seeking the enforcement of
this section. The enforcement shall be carried out with the advice
of the Board of Trustees of the Library.
f.
Violations and Penalties. Any person violating any provision of this
section shall upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not to
exceed $100 for each offense. Continued failure to return any book
or Library article for a period of 30 days after conviction of a violation
of this section shall constitute a separate offense under this section.
