Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 27 Sec. 110

• Appeals board: means the Maine Library Commission acting, on request from interested citizens, as a board of review for decisions made concerning the State's library plan. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 27 Sec. 110
• Area reference and resource center: means a large public, school or academic library designated by the State Librarian and receiving state aid for the purposes of making its resources and services available without charge to all residents within a library region, of providing supplementary library services to local libraries within the library region and of coordinating the services of all local libraries within the library region that by contract become part of the library region. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 27 Sec. 110
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Local library board: means the body which has the authority to give administrative direction or advice to a library through its librarian. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 27 Sec. 110
• Maine Library Advisory Council: means an advisory body representing a constituency of participating libraries from all geographical library regions, as described in section 114-A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 27 Sec. 110
• Maine State Library consultant or specialist: means an individual who acts as a general library consultant or specialist to one or more library regions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 27 Sec. 110
• Municipality: includes cities, towns and plantations, except that "municipality" does not include plantations in Title 10, chapter 110, subchapter IV; or Title 30?A, Part 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Public library: means a library freely open to all persons and receives its financial support from a municipality, private association, corporation or group. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 27 Sec. 110
• region: means a defined geographic area consisting of local libraries. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 27 Sec. 110
• Regional library system: means a network of library regions interrelated by formal or informal contract for the purpose of organizing library resources and services for research, information and recreation to improve statewide library service and to serve collectively the entire population of the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 27 Sec. 110
• Research center: means any library designated as such by the State Librarian and receiving state aid for the purposes of making its major research collections, under such rules and regulations as are defined by its governing board and head librarian, available to the residents of the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 27 Sec. 110