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shall expire each year and that a new trustee shall be elected or 



appointed annually to serve for five years. 



Source. Education L. 1909, § 1033, revised from former Univ. L. (L. 1892,, 

 ch. 378) § 39. 



§ 1 124 Incorporation. Within one month after taking office 

 the first board of trustees of any such free public library [museum] 

 shall apply to the Regents for a charter in accordance with the vote 

 establishing the library [museum]. 



Source. Education L. 1909, § 1034, revised from former Univ. L. (L. 1892, 

 ch. 378) § 40. 



Reference. Application for, and grant of charter, Education Law, §§ 60-62. 



§ 1 125 Use of free public libraries [museums]. Every library 

 [museum] established under section 1118 of this chapter shall be 

 forever free to the inhabitants of the locality which establishes it, 

 subject always to rules of the library [museum] trustees, who shall 

 have authority to exclude any person who wilfully violates such 

 rules ; and the trustees may, . under such conditions as they think 

 expedient, extend the privileges of the library [museum] to persons 

 living outside such locality. 



Source. Education L. 1909, § 1035, revised from former Univ. L. (L. 1892, 

 ch. 378) § 42, as amended by L. 1895, ch. 859. 



§ 1 126 Reports. Every library or museum which receives state 

 aid or enjoys any exemption from taxation or other privileges not 

 usually • accorded to business corporations shall make the report 

 required by section 58 of this chapter, and such report shall relieve 

 the institution from making any report now required by statute or 

 charter to be made to the Legislature, or to any department, court 

 or other authority of the State. These reports shall be summarized 

 and transmitted to the Legislature by the Regents with the annual 

 reports of the State Library and State Museum. 



Source. Education L. 1909, § 1036, revised from former Univ. L. (L. 1892, 

 ch. 378) § 41. 



§ 1 12 7 Injuries to property. Whoever intentionally injures, 

 defaces or destroys any property belonging to or deposited in any 

 incorporated library, reading-room, museum or other educational 

 institution, shall be punished by imprisonment in a state prison for 

 not more than three years, or in a county jail for not more than one 

 year, or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by both 

 such fine and imprisonment. 



Source. Education L. 1909, § 1037, revised from former Univ. L. (L. 1892, 

 ch. 378) § 43. 



Reference. Removal of books in libraries and injuries to books, works of art, 

 etc. in libraries and museums, a misdemeanor, Penal Law, §§ 1427, 1428. 



