§ 259. Library taxes. 1. a. Taxes, in addition to those otherwise\nauthorized, may be voted for library purposes by any authority named in\nsection two hundred fifty-five of this part and shall, unless otherwise\ndirected by such vote, be considered as annual appropriations therefor\nuntil changed by further vote and shall be levied and collected yearly,\nor as directed, as are other general taxes. In the case of a school\ndistrict the appropriation for library purposes shall be submitted to\nthe voters of the district as proposed by the library board of trustees\nin a separate resolution and shall not be submitted as a part of the\nappropriation of the necessary funds to meet the estimated expenditures\nof the school district. All moneys received from taxes or other public\nsources for library purposes shall be kept as a separate library fund by\nthe treasurer of the municipality or district making the appropriation\nand shall be expended only under direction of the library trustees on\nproperly authenticated vouchers, except that money received from taxes\nand other public sources for the support of a public library or a free\nassociation library or a cooperative library system shall be paid over\nto the treasurer of such library or cooperative library system upon the\nwritten demand of its trustees. All such moneys paid over to a public\nlibrary treasurer shall be deposited and secured in the manner provided\nby section ten of the general municipal law and the library trustees or\nthe library treasurer, if the trustees shall delegate such duty to him,\nmay invest such moneys in the manner provided by section eleven of such\nlaw.\n b. (1) Except as provided in subparagraph two of this paragraph,\nwhenever twenty-five qualified voters of a municipality shall so\npetition and the library board of trustees shall endorse, the question\nof establishing or increasing the amount of funding of the annual\ncontribution for the operating budget of a registered public or free\nassociation library by such municipality to a sum specified in said\npetition, shall be voted on at the next general election of such\nmunicipality, provided that due public notice of the proposed action\nshall have been given. An increase in library funding provided pursuant\nto this paragraph shall not apply to a municipal budget adopted prior to\nthe date of such election.\n (2) Solely for the purposes of this paragraph, the term "municipality"\nshall:\n (i) not include a city with a population of one million or more,\n (ii) mean only a county when the public libraries located in such\ncounty are members of a federated public library system whose central\nlibrary is located in a city of more than three hundred thousand\ninhabitants.\n 2. In the case of a joint public library authorized to be established\nby two or more municipalities or districts pursuant to section two\nhundred fifty-five of this chapter, the governing bodies of the\nparticipating municipalities and districts shall enter into an agreement\ndesignating the treasurer of one of the participating municipalities or\ndistricts to be the treasurer of the joint public library. The agreement\nshall be for a period of not less than one year nor more than five years\nand the state comptroller and the commissioner of education shall be\nnotified in writing by the board of library trustees of such agreement\nand designation.\n The municipality or district whose treasurer is designated to serve as\ntreasurer of a joint public library may be compensated for the services\nrendered by such official to the library. The amount to be paid for such\nservices shall be determined by agreement between the governing body of\nthe municipality or district and the board of library trustees, and\nshall be paid at least annually from the public library fund.\n 3. The treasurer of a joint public library shall maintain the separate\nlibrary fund required by subdivision one of this section and shall\ncredit to such fu
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