AB 797

Under current law, a county that does not maintain a consolidated public

library for the county and that contains residents who are not residents of a

municipality that maintains a public library (covered county) must pay to each

public library in the county, and to each public library in an adjacent county, an

amount that is equal to at least 70 percent of the amount computed by multiplying

the number of loans of material made by that library to residents of the county who

are not residents of a municipality that maintains a public library by the library's

average operational cost per loan (library service payment).

Under this bill, a covered county may opt out of making library service

payments to counties that maintain a consolidated public library. To opt out, the

covered county must adopt a resolution to that effect and provide a copy of the

resolution to each adjacent county that maintains a consolidated public library. Also

under this bill, if a covered county opts out of making library service payments, a

library in a county that has received an opt-out notice may charge an individual from

a covered county for library services and may refuse to provide library services to

those individuals who have not paid these charges within 90 days.