2005 California Government Code Sections 26170-26170.24 Article 1. General Provisions

26170.  This chapter shall be known, and may be cited as, the Shasta
County Regional Library Facilities and Services Act.
26170.2.  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) The existing state of library facilities and services in
Shasta County conflicts with the goal of the Legislature and the
Shasta County Board of Supervisors that each citizen have access to
library materials and services adequate to promote literacy among the
general population and to encourage the self-sufficiency available
through access to knowledge.
   (b) It is in the public interest to create the Shasta County
Regional Library Facilities and Services Commission so that regional
library facility and service needs may be addressed in an expeditious
and appropriate fashion on a countywide basis.
   (c) It is in the public interest to support the educational needs
of the citizens of Shasta County for library facilities and services,
including literacy programs.
26170.4.  As used in this chapter, "board of supervisors" means the
Board of Supervisors of the County of Shasta.
26170.8.  As used in this chapter, "commission" means the Shasta
County Regional Library Facilities and Services Commission created
pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 26171).
26170.10.  As used in this chapter, "county" means the County of
Shasta.
26170.12.  As used in this chapter, "library facility" means a
building or vehicle used to provide library services.
26170.14.  As used in this chapter, "library services" means the
process of collecting, acquiring, organizing, maintaining, and making
available for public borrowing, printed and audiovisual materials.
"Library services" shall include, but not be limited to, outreach
services, including the use of community access or public television
broadcast channels, access to reference materials, including
computerized and electronically and optically stored information, and
on-line data bases, and provision of literacy programs.
26170.16.  As used in this chapter, "master plan" means a plan for
constructing, furnishing, acquiring, leasing, maintaining, and
operating library facilities, and structures necessary or convenient
to those facilities, and providing library services.  Subject to the
limitations on the commission's powers, as set forth in this chapter,
the master plan may include, but is not limited to, all of the
following:
   (a) The library facilities to be constructed, furnished, acquired,
leased, maintained, or operated throughout the county.
   (b) The time schedule for constructing, acquiring, leasing, or
furnishing the facilities referenced in subdivision (a).
   (c) The kinds and levels of library services to be provided at or
through each library facility.
   (d) The actions proposed to meet the goals and objectives of
subdivisions (a), (b), and (c).
   (e) Projections of revenues, including revenues expected to be
derived from any source of revenue authorized by this chapter,
together with other federal, state, and local funds, gifts,
donations, and endowments, and expenditures for capital, maintenance,
and library facilities and services purposes.
   (f) Any other requirements the commission, in carrying out its
responsibility for the provision of library facilities and services,
deems necessary or appropriate.
26170.18.  This chapter shall be liberally construed to effectuate
its purposes.  No inadvertent error, irregularity, informality, or
the inadvertent neglect or omission of any officer, in any procedure
taken under this chapter, other than fraud, shall void or invalidate
that proceeding or any levy imposed to finance regional library
facilities or services within the county.
26170.20.  Any action to determine the validity of the creation or
organization or any action of the commission shall be brought
pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of
Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
26170.22.  If any provision of this chapter or the application
thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity
shall not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter
which can be given effect without the invalid provision or
application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are
severable.
26170.24.  (a) This chapter shall not be operative unless and until
the board of supervisors enacts an ordinance declaring this chapter
to be operative.
   (b) This chapter shall become inoperative on January 1, 1995, if
the commission has not secured by that date one or more sources of
revenue authorized by Section 26172.2.