Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 25 - CULTURAL RESOURCES
Part VII - State Library
Subpart 4 - State Aid to Public Libraries Grant
Chapter 31 - Disbursement of State Aid Grants
Section VII-3105 - Eligibility

Universal Citation: LA Admin Code VII-3105

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

A. Each library or consolidated library system represented by the applicant must be legally established according to Louisiana Revised Statutes Title 25, Section 211, except for the New Orleans Public Library which was established prior to the enactment of Title 25.

B. Each library or consolidated library system must agree to serve all patrons with free basic library service with no denial of service by reason of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, or political affiliation.

C. Each library or consolidated library system shall show evidence of working toward the standards for public library service in Louisiana as adopted by the Louisiana Library Association.

D. Each library or consolidated library system participating in the program of supplemental grants shall endorse and comply with the interlibrary loan code adopted by the Louisiana Library Association to assure the interlibrary availability of materials purchased from funds granted herein.

E. A parish library which serves all residents of the parish, a municipal library which serves all residents of a parish which does not have a parish library, and a consolidated library system shall be eligible to apply to receive supplemental grants if other conditions of eligibility are met.

F. If eligibility to receive state grants under the rules is lost for any reason, the following conditions must be met to re-establish eligibility.

1. The state librarian will be notified that the library or consolidated library system will be ineligible to participate in the program of supplemental grants by submission of the annual report which when filed by July 1 will indicate the inability to "maintain effort". Said library or consolidated library system shall not be declared ineligible until after the receipt of their annual report.

2. The library or consolidated library system which has been declared ineligible in writing by the state librarian shall not receive state aid funds for the succeeding state fiscal year (July 1-June 30).

3. The ineligible library or consolidated library system shall continue to make annual application to the State Library to be filed for the next succeeding year so when circumstances permit participation in the supplemental grants program the library or consolidated system will have an application on file and will be eligible.

4. When an ineligible library or consolidated library system submits evidence in the form of the annual report of a return to the required level of maintenance of effort for the expenditure on library materials and total income received from local sources for the stipulated period of time, that library or consolidated library system will be declared eligible for participation in this program. Payments will begin with the state's next fiscal year.

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 25:14.

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