256.70 - LIBRARY COMPACT AUTHORIZED.
256.70 LIBRARY COMPACT AUTHORIZED.
The division of libraries and information services of the
department of education is hereby authorized to enter into interstate
library compacts on behalf of the state of Iowa with any state
bordering on Iowa which legally joins therein in substantially the
following form and the contracting states agree that:
1. Article I -- Purpose. Because the desire for the services
provided by public libraries transcends governmental boundaries and
can be provided most effectively by giving such services to
communities of people regardless of jurisdictional lines, it is the
policy of the states who are parties to this compact to cooperate and
share their responsibilities in providing joint and cooperative
library services in areas where the distribution of population makes
the provision of library service on an interstate basis the most
effective way to provide adequate and efficient services.
2. Article II -- Procedure. The appropriate state library
officials and agencies having comparable powers with those of the
Iowa commission of libraries of the party states or any of their
political subdivisions may, on behalf of said states or political
subdivisions, enter into agreements for the cooperative or joint
conduct of library services when they shall find that the execution
of agreements to that end as provided herein will facilitate library
services.
3. Article III -- Content. Any such agreement for the
cooperative or joint establishment, operation or use of library
services, facilities, personnel, equipment, materials or other items
not excluded because of failure to enumerate shall, as among the
parties of the agreement:
a. Detail the specific nature of the services, facilities,
properties or personnel to which it is applicable;
b. Provide for the allocation of costs and other financial
responsibilities;
c. Specify the respective rights, duties, obligations and
liabilities;
d. Stipulate the terms and conditions for duration, renewal,
termination, abrogation, disposal of joint or common property, if
any, and all other matters which may be appropriate to the proper
effectuation and performance of said agreement.
4. Article IV -- Conflict of laws. Nothing in this compact
or in any agreement entered into hereunder shall alter, or otherwise
impair any obligation imposed on any public library by otherwise
applicable laws, or be constituted to supersede.
5. Article V -- Administrator. Each state shall designate a
compact administrator with whom copies of all agreements to which the
state or any subdivision thereof is party shall be filed. The
administrator shall have such powers as may be conferred by the laws
of the administrator's state and may consult and cooperate with the
compact administrators of other party states and take such steps as
may effectuate the purposes of this compact.
6. Article VI -- Effective date. This compact shall become
operative when entered in by two or more entities having the powers
enumerated herein.
7. Article VII -- Renunciation. This compact shall continue
in force and remain binding upon each party state until six months
after any such state has given notice of repeal by the legislature.
Such withdrawal shall not be construed to relieve any party to an
agreement authorized by articles II and III of the compact from the
obligation of that agreement prior to the end of its stipulated
period of duration.
8. Article VIII -- Severability -- construction. The
provisions of this compact shall be severable. It is intended that
the provisions of this compact be reasonably and liberally construed.
Section History: Recent Form
93 Acts, ch 48, §33; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §201
Referred to in § 256.51, 331.381