Bill Text: IN SB0201 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Libraries.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-05-18 - Effective 07/01/2011 [SB0201 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2011-SB0201-Introduced.html
Citations Affected: IC 36-12.
Synopsis: Libraries. Allows a library board to provide severance pay
to a library employee who is voluntarily separated from employment
with the library. Allows the library board to appropriate funds to
provide membership of library employees in local, state, and national
associations of a civic, educational, professional, or governmental
nature.
Effective: July 1, 2011.
January 5, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Local Government.
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(b) The library board shall employ and discharge librarians and other individuals that are necessary in the administration of the affairs of the library. The board shall:
(1) fix and pay the compensation;
(2) classify and adopt schedules of salaries; and
(3) determine the number and prescribe the duties;
of the librarians and other individuals, with the advice and recommendations of the library director.
(c) In exercising the powers of the library board under this section, the library board may reimburse:
(1) candidates for employment for expenses reasonably incurred while interviewing; and
(2) new employees for the reasonable moving expenses of the employees.
If the library board exercises authority under this subsection, the board shall establish reasonable levels of reimbursement for the purposes of this subsection.
(d) A library board may provide severance pay to a library employee who is
(1) the public library; and
(2) library employees;
in local, state, and national associations of a civic, an educational, a professional, or a governmental nature that have as their purpose the betterment and improvement of library operations.