§ 273. Apportionment of state aid to libraries and library systems. 1.\nAny public library system providing service under an approved plan\nduring a calendar year shall be entitled to receive during that calendar\nyear state aid consisting of the following amounts:\n a. An annual grant of:\n (1) Ten thousand dollars where the library system serves less than one\ncounty, or\n (2) Twenty thousand dollars where the library system serves one entire\ncounty, or\n (3) Where the library system serves more than one county the system\nshall be entitled to receive twenty-five thousand dollars for each\nentire county served and/or ten thousand dollars for each county, any\npart of which is served by the library system. If an entire county is\nserved by two or more library systems, each of which serves a part\nthereof, each of such library systems shall be entitled to receive a\ngrant of ten thousand dollars and in addition, a pro rata share of an\nadditional sum of ten thousand dollars, such share to be computed in\naccordance with the ratio which the population of the area of the county\nserved by such library system bears to the total population of the\ncounty, as determined under subdivision one of section two hundred\nseventy-two of this article.\n b. In a library system which submits a plan for further development of\nand access to central library services, which plan shall be approved by\nthe commissioner pursuant to the commissioner's regulations, the amount\nof central library services aid shall be:\n (1) thirty-two cents per capita of the population within the chartered\narea of service of such library system with a minimum amount of one\nhundred five thousand dollars, and\n (2) an additional seventy-one thousand five hundred dollars.\n (3) Ownership of library materials and equipment purchased with such\ncentral library services aid provided by this paragraph shall be vested\nin the public library system.\n c. The sum of one dollar and sixty-two cents per capita of population\nof the area served.\n d. Each public library system with an automation program to support\nbibliographic control and interlibrary sharing of information resources\nof member libraries, and to coordinate and integrate the automated\nsystem or systems of such member libraries consistent with regulations\nof the commissioner, shall be eligible to receive an amount equal to two\nand nine hundred thirty-eight thousandths percent of the amount earned\nin paragraph (c) of this subdivision, or seventy-six thousand five\nhundred dollars, whichever is more.\n e. The sum of fifty-two dollars per square mile of area served by the\nlibrary system in the case of library systems serving one county or\nless. Such sum shall be increased by five dollars for each additional\nentire county served, provided, however, that no apportionment pursuant\nto this paragraph shall exceed seventy-two dollars per square mile of\narea served. If an entire county is served by two or more library\nsystems, each of which serves a part thereof, each of such library\nsystems shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the aid computed in\naccordance with the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, a pro rata\nshare of an increase of five dollars to be computed as follows: the sum\nresulting from the computation of five dollars per square mile of area\nserved by the one of such library systems which would receive the\nlargest amount of aid pursuant to this paragraph shall be pro rated\namong the library systems serving such county in accordance with the\nratio which the population of the area served by each of such library\nsystems bears to the population of the county as determined under\nsubdivision one of section two hundred seventy-two of this article.\n f. (1) Local library services aid. Except in cities with a population\nin excess of one million inhabitants, each chartered and registered\npublic and free association library meeting standards of service\npromulgated by the c
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