Terms Used In Michigan Laws 397.33

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Public library: means a library, the whole interests of which belong to the general public, lawfully established for free public purposes by any 1 or more counties, cities, townships, villages, school districts or other local governments or any combination thereof, or by any general or local act, but shall not include a special library such as a professional or technical library or a school library. See Michigan Laws 397.31
  • Qualified public library: means any public library which is open to and available to the public at least 10 hours per week or any library which has a contract with a public library board to furnish library services to the public. See Michigan Laws 397.31
     In any county where there is no public library, or in any county within the boundaries of which there are municipalities which have not established public library service or which do not maintain public libraries, the county board of supervisors shall appoint a county library board to receive the per capita portion of penal fine moneys to be allocated for such areas. The county library board shall consist of 5 members appointed by the county board of supervisors for terms of 5 years each, except that the first members shall be appointed for 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 years respectively. The board may contract with a qualified public library, within or without the county, to provide public library service for all residents of the county without legal access to a public library.
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