Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 190 - Public Libraries
Section 11-31a. - Definitions.

As used in section 11-31b:

(a) “Connecticard” means a cooperative program among public libraries in Connecticut which allows a resident of any town in the state who holds a valid borrower card issued by his home library to use that card to borrow materials from any public library in the state that is participating in the program;
(b) “Connecticard transaction” means each lending of a recognized unit of library material by a participating library to a person who is a resident of any Connecticut town except the town in which the library is located or any towns for which the library has been designated the principal public library and who has presented a valid Connecticard borrower card at the library making the loan;
(c) “Net plus transaction” means the library services, based on the number of items loaned, rendered to nonresidents of towns normally served by libraries offering state-wide services in excess of the library service rendered to residents of such towns by other libraries;
(d) “Participating library” means a library which has signed a letter of agreement on file with the State Library;
(e) “Resident” means that a person is principally domiciled in a town. A borrower who holds dual residency or who owns property in more than one town is considered a resident only in the town where he is principally domiciled. In all other towns, that borrower shall be a nonresident.
(P.A. 73-645, S. 1, 5; P.A. 82-304, S. 1, 4.)
History: P.A. 82-304 repealed text concerning state-wide library services and substituted definitions for the Connecticard program.

Structure Connecticut General Statutes

Connecticut General Statutes

Title 11 - Libraries and Museums

Chapter 190 - Public Libraries

Section 11-20. - Establishment. Gifts. Pensions.

Section 11-21. - Board of trustees.

Section 11-22. - Expenses.

Section 11-23. - State Librarian to advise and assist libraries.

Section 11-23a. - Library service center in Middlesex and Windham-Tolland areas.

Section 11-23b. (Formerly Sec. 10-28). - Library service centers for public libraries and public schools.

Section 11-23c. - Communications grant program for schools and public libraries.

Section 11-24. - Payments to free public libraries.

Section 11-24a. - Definitions. Principal public library. Nonprincipal public library.

Section 11-24b. - State grants to principal public libraries; incentive grants.

Section 11-24c. - Construction cost grants. Emergency repair grants.

Section 11-24d. - Grants for library automation.

Section 11-25. - Reports by libraries. Confidentiality of records.

Section 11-26. - Librarians' certificates.

Section 11-27. - Library fund.

Section 11-28. - Merger of library facilities.

Section 11-29. - Transfer of employees.

Section 11-30. - Contracts for library service.

Section 11-31. - Regional library service.

Section 11-31a. - Definitions.

Section 11-31b. - Connecticard program; state aid for services rendered to nonresidents.

Section 11-31c. - State Library Board to adopt regulations.

Section 11-32. - Legislative body of municipality may establish or operate a public library.

Section 11-33. - Powers and duties of trustees in municipalities. Gifts.

Section 11-34. - Report by trustees.

Section 11-35. - Penalties for injuries.

Section 11-36. - Municipality tax.

Section 11-37. - Trustees' compensation.