What legislation applies to a public library board?
Municipalities are given the power under the Public Libraries Act to establish public library boards. If established, public library boards are governed specifically by the Public Libraries Act. But since public library boards are both local boards of a municipality and are corporations, the general legislation that applies to those entities also applies to public library boards. A number of statutes affect public libraries other than the Public Libraries Act; however, if there were an inconsistency between a provision of the general legislation and a provision of the specific legislation, the Public Libraries Act provision would take precedence with respect to a public library board. This is the case, unless the general legislation indicates otherwise, e.g. where the legislation states that it operates “despite any other Act”.
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