Metropolitan Toronto Library Board
171. (1) The corporation known as the Metropolitan Toronto Library Board is continued under the name Metropolitan Toronto Library Board in English and Conseil des bibliothèques de la communauté urbaine de Toronto in French, and shall be composed of, (a) one person appointed by the council of each area municipality who shall be a resident in the area municipality and who may be a member of a public library board; (b) the chair of the Metropolitan Council; (c) one person appointed by The Metropolitan Toronto School Board who shall be a resident in the Metropolitan Area; (d) one person appointed by the Metropolitan Separate School Board who shall be a resident in the Metropolitan Area; and (e) two persons appointed by the Metropolitan Council who shall be residents in the Metropolitan Area. Time of appointment (2) Appointments of members of the Library Board shall be made in the month of December in every year in which a regular election is held for the metropolitan councillors. Term of office (3) Members appointed under subsection (2) shall hold office for a three-year term, commencing on the 1st day of January after they are appointed and may be reappointed. Exception (4) Despite subsections (2) and (3), members of the Library Board in office on the 19th day of December, 1989 shall continue in office until the 31st day of December, 1991. Chair may appoint delegate (5) The chair of the Metropolitan Council may designate any member of the Metropolitan Council to be his or her delegate at any or all of the meetings of the Library Board. Chair and quorum (6) The Library Board, from among its members, shall elect a chair and may elect a vice-chair, and a majority of the members of the Library Board constitutes a quorum. Acting chair (7) In the absence of the chair or the vice-chair, if any, the Library Board may appoint one of its members as acting chair. Finances (8) The Library Board shall submit annually to the Metropolitan Council an estimate of its financial requirements for the year, and the Metropolitan Council may amend such estimate and shall pay to the Library Board out of the money appropriated for the Library Board such amounts as may be requisitioned from time to time. Power to acquire land (9) The Library Board may, (a) with the approval of the Metropolitan Council, acquire by purchase, lease or otherwise any land required for its purposes and sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any land or buildings when no longer required for its purposes; and (b) erect, maintain and repair buildings on its lands and make additions to or alterations of such buildings and may, with the approval of the Metropolitan Council, acquire or erect on its land, buildings larger than are required for library or branch library purposes, and may lease any parts of the buildings not so required, and shall be deemed to have always had such powers. Power of Metropolitan Corporation to acquire land (10) The power of the Metropolitan Corporation to acquire land for the purposes of the Metropolitan Corporation includes the power to acquire land for the purposes of the Library Board. Actions, etc., against Library Board (11) All claims, actions and demands arising from or relating to the operations of the Library Board or the exercise of any of its powers shall be made upon and brought against the Library Board and not upon or against the Metropolitan Corporation. Idem (12) The Library Board may sue and be sued in its own name. R.S.O. 1990, c. M.62, s. 171.