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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="23-206" title_number="23" title_name="Libraries" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Resource Centers and Cooperative Programs">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Any two or more boards of library trustees acting as incorporators under this section and the nonstock corporation laws may organize a cooperative library corporation to administer joint library projects in their counties.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The membership of the corporation consists of the members of each board of library trustees that signs the articles of incorporation.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If each of the member boards agree, another county may become a member of the corporation.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The member boards may delegate any of their intracounty powers and duties to the corporation to the extent necessary to enable it to carry out and administer joint library projects.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Professional and clerical employees of a cooperative library corporation shall join the Teachers’ Retirement System.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Each cooperative library corporation:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is entitled to use the library fund;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Shall have the annual audit required for a library;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Shall make the annual report required of a board of library trustees; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Is exempt from taxation under § 7-202 of the Tax - Property Article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
