22-1-403. Participation in the federation. (1) When a library federation shall have been established, the legislative body of any government unit in the designated library federation area may decide, with the concurrence of the board of trustees of its library if it is maintaining a library, to participate in the library federation. Each local entity may determine the amount of services it wishes to supply to fulfill the needs of its unit. After the necessary contract has been executed and beginning with the next fiscal year, the governmental unit shall participate in the library federation and its residents shall be entitled to the benefits of the library federation and property within its boundaries shall be subject to taxation for library federation purposes.
     (2) The board of regents of higher education may contract with the government of any city or county, or the governments of both the city and the county, in which a unit of the Montana university system is located for the establishment and operation of joint library services. Any such contract which proposes the erection of a building shall be subject to the approval of the legislature. Any joint library services established pursuant to this section shall be operated and supported as provided in such contract and under this part.

     History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 132, L. 1939; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 249, L. 1963; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 357, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 44-213.