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Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 13-2-102. Multijurisdictional system agreements - All county public libraries created under the authority of §...
§ 13-2-103. Library computer use — Policy — Signed agreement form required - (a) The board of directors of each library operated as...
Subchapter 2 - Arkansas State Library
§ 13-2-201. State and local publications defined — Exemptions - (a) As used in this subchapter, the terms “state publication”...
§ 13-2-202. Effect of subchapter - (a) (1) Nothing in this subchapter shall repeal, alter, or...
§ 13-2-203. Arkansas State Library created - (a) There is created and established within the Department of...
§ 13-2-204. State Librarian - (a) The Arkansas State Library shall be headed by the...
§ 13-2-205. State Library Board - (a) There is created the State Library Board. (b) (1)...
§ 13-2-206. Meetings of board - (a) The State Library Board shall meet at such place...
§ 13-2-207. Powers and duties generally - Within the limitations of facilities and funds provided for the...
§ 13-2-208. Cooperation with other libraries - (a) The Arkansas State Library shall cooperate with the public...
§ 13-2-209. Agreements with Arkansas State Archives and Secretary of State - (a) The Arkansas State Library, acting through the State Library...
§ 13-2-210. Depository for federal, state, and local documents - The Arkansas State Library shall serve as the state's regional...
§ 13-2-211. Depository agreements and eligibility - (a) The Arkansas State Library may enter into depository agreements...
§ 13-2-212. State and Local Government Publications Clearinghouse - (a) The Arkansas State Library shall create and maintain a...
§ 13-2-213. Number of copies provided clearinghouse - (a) If sufficient funds are available, each state and local...
§ 13-2-214. Libraries of colleges and universities — Contracts — Status - (a) The Arkansas State Library is authorized to enter into...
Subchapter 3 - Library of the Secretary of State
§ 13-2-301. Librarian - The Secretary of State shall be librarian for the Library...
§ 13-2-302. Binding of books and documents - The Secretary of State shall cause to be bound, if...
§ 13-2-304. Procuring copies of missing books - Where there shall be a deficiency in any of the...
§ 13-2-306. Expenses of procuring works - All expenses of procuring copies of acts, journals, and other...
§ 13-2-307. Accounts - The Auditor of State shall adjust the accounts of the...
§ 13-2-308. Privilege of using books - The officers of the several departments of the state, who...
§ 13-2-309. Removal of books - (a) No person shall be permitted to remove any book...
§ 13-2-310. Injury to or failure to return books or charts — Penalty - If any person shall injure or fail to return any...
Subchapter 4 - County Libraries
§ 13-2-401. Establishment - (a) The county quorum courts of the several counties shall...
§ 13-2-402. Librarian - (a) No person shall be appointed to the office of...
§ 13-2-403. Multidistrict counties - In any county in this state which is divided into...
§ 13-2-404. County public library fund — Claims - (a) (1) All tax and other county-appropriated funds of the...
§ 13-2-405. Surplus funds — Matching funds - (a) The governing board of any county public library is...
§ 13-2-406. Library services for outside the county — Fees for county public libraries - (a) Any county public library may extend the privilege and...
§ 13-2-407. Joint city-county and regional public library systems - (a) (1) Any county library board, with the consent of...
§ 13-2-408. Injuries to county public library property — Penalty - (a) In addition to any penalties prescribed and notwithstanding any...
§ 13-2-409. County library tax petition — Filing fee - When a petition is filed as authorized in Arkansas Constitution,...
Subchapter 5 - Municipal Libraries and Reading Rooms
§ 13-2-501. Establishment — Appropriations - (a) (1) The city council or governing body of any...
§ 13-2-502. Board of trustees - (a) (1) When any city council or governing body of...
§ 13-2-503. Powers of trustees — Librarian and staff - (a) (1) All moneys received for library purposes, whether by...
§ 13-2-504. Surplus funds — Matching funds - (a) The board of trustees of any city public library...
§ 13-2-505. Donations for library - (a) Any person desiring to make donations of money, personal...
§ 13-2-506. Injuries to library property — Penalty - (a) In addition to any penalties prescribed and notwithstanding any...
§ 13-2-507. Contracts for library services outside the city — Fees for special library services - (a) The board of trustees of the library may extend...
§ 13-2-508. Joint municipal libraries — Joint city-county libraries - (a) When any city council or governing body of a...
§ 13-2-509. Trustees' report - (a) At the end of each fiscal year, the board...
§ 13-2-510. City and town library services - (a) (1) Any city of the first class, city of...
Subchapter 6 - Interstate Library Compact
§ 13-2-601. Definition - As used in this compact, “state library agency”, with reference...
§ 13-2-602. Compact enacted - The Interstate Library Compact is enacted into law and entered...
§ 13-2-603. Compact administrators - The Governor shall appoint an officer of this state who...
§ 13-2-604. Notice of withdrawal - In the event of withdrawal from the compact, the Governor...
§ 13-2-605. Prerequisites for construction or maintenance of libraries - No county, city, town, or combination thereof acting as a...
§ 13-2-606. Interstate library districts included - (a) An interstate library district lying partly within this state...
Subchapter 7 - Confidentiality of Patrons' Records
§ 13-2-701. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Confidential library records” means...
§ 13-2-702. Penalty - (a) Any person who knowingly violates any of the provisions...
§ 13-2-703. Disclosure prohibited - (a) Library records which contain names or other personally identifying...
§ 13-2-704. Disclosure permitted - A library may disclose personally identifiable information concerning any patron...
§ 13-2-705. Construction — Statistics - (a) No provision of this subchapter shall be construed to...
§ 13-2-706. Use of information in evidence - Personally identifiable information obtained in any manner other than as...
Subchapter 8 - Arkansas Library Materials Security Law
§ 13-2-801. Short title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 13-2-802. Definitions - For the purposes of this subchapter: (1) “Library materials” means...
§ 13-2-803. Unauthorized removal or willful mutilation of library materials - (a) (1) It shall be unlawful for any person to...
§ 13-2-804. Applicability - This subchapter shall apply to all libraries, museums, archives, and...
§ 13-2-805. Reasonable detention and questioning to determine whether offense was committed - (a) If a person employed by a library or a...
§ 13-2-806. Relation with other criminal or civil proceedings - (a) The provisions of this subchapter are supplemental to other...
Subchapter 9 - Regional Library System Law
§ 13-2-901. Title - This subchapter may be referred to and cited as the...
§ 13-2-902. Purpose - (a) In order to better coordinate the services of libraries...
§ 13-2-903. Creation of a regional library system - (a) Any two (2) or more municipalities, any two (2)...
§ 13-2-904. Board of trustees - (a) (1) (A) The management and control of a regional...
§ 13-2-905. Powers and duties - (a) (1) Immediately after their initial appointment, the board of...
§ 13-2-906. Annual reports - At the end of each calendar year, the board of...
§ 13-2-907. Contracts for library services and with other libraries - (a) Regional library systems are authorized to contract with other...
Subchapter 10 - Arkansas Digital Library Act
§ 13-2-1001. Title - This subchapter may be referred to as the “Arkansas Digital...
§ 13-2-1002. Creation - (a) (1) The Division of Higher Education and the Arkansas...