65-4-101.

§65-4-101.


    Counties, cities and towns are hereby authorized and empowered to
join in creation, development, operation and maintenance of public
libraries to serve multicounty systems, and to appropriate and
allocate funds for the support of such systems.  Such systems shall
provide equitable library services to all persons in the district.
    To insure the effective development of library service in all
rural and urban areas, the creation and organization of library
systems and the district to be served shall be subject to approval by
the Oklahoma Department of Libraries Board in accordance with the
provisions of Article X, Section 10A of the Oklahoma Constitution.
After establishment, library systems shall be subject to
accreditation by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries Board.
    Parts of an adjacent county may be added to or included in
multicounty systems if these additions are determined by agreement of
the system board, the petitioning parties, and the Oklahoma
Department of Libraries Board to be the most feasible way to provide
public library services to such part of a county.
    Special levies of any and all taxes authorized to be levied by
counties, cities and towns under this and other Oklahoma Statutes as
amended and the Oklahoma Constitution as amended are hereby
authorized to be levied for support of library systems.
    When any multicounty system is established under provisions of
this act, existing public libraries in the district may be
incorporated into the system under a unified administration by act of
local governing bodies or vote of the people as provided in the
procedure for establishment.  Existing public libraries not
incorporated into the system shall have the same relationship to the
system as similar public libraries outside the district have to the
local system and to other systems.