Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 25 - CULTURAL RESOURCES › Part VII - State Library › Subpart 4 - State Aid to Public Libraries Grant › Chapter 31 - Disbursement of State Aid Grants › Section VII-3105 - Eligibility

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Each library or
				  consolidated library system represented by the applicant must be legally
				  established according to Louisiana Revised Statutes Title 25, Section 211,
				  except for the New Orleans Public Library which was established prior to the
				  enactment of Title 25.
B. Each
				  library or consolidated library system must agree to serve all patrons with
				  free basic library service with no denial of service by reason of race, color,
				  national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, or political
				  affiliation.
C. Each library or
				  consolidated library system shall show evidence of working toward the standards
				  for public library service in Louisiana as adopted by the Louisiana Library
				  Association.
D. Each library or
				  consolidated library system participating in the program of supplemental grants
				  shall endorse and comply with the interlibrary loan code adopted by the
				  Louisiana Library Association to assure the interlibrary availability of
				  materials purchased from funds granted herein.
E. A parish library which serves all
				  residents of the parish, a municipal library which serves all residents of a
				  parish which does not have a parish library, and a consolidated library system
				  shall be eligible to apply to receive supplemental grants if other conditions
				  of eligibility are met.
F. If
				  eligibility to receive state grants under the rules is lost for any reason, the
				  following conditions must be met to re-establish eligibility.
1. The state librarian will be notified that
				  the library or consolidated library system will be ineligible to participate in
				  the program of supplemental grants by submission of the annual report which
				  when filed by July 1 will indicate the inability to "maintain effort". Said
				  library or consolidated library system shall not be declared ineligible until
				  after the receipt of their annual report.
2. The library or consolidated library system
				  which has been declared ineligible in writing by the state librarian shall not
				  receive state aid funds for the succeeding state fiscal year (July 1-June
				  30).
3. The ineligible library or
				  consolidated library system shall continue to make annual application to the
				  State Library to be filed for the next succeeding year so when circumstances
				  permit participation in the supplemental grants program the library or
				  consolidated system will have an application on file and will be
				  eligible.
4. When an ineligible
				  library or consolidated library system submits evidence in the form of the
				  annual report of a return to the required level of maintenance of effort for
				  the expenditure on library materials and total income received from local
				  sources for the stipulated period of time, that library or consolidated library
				  system will be declared eligible for participation in this program. Payments
				  will begin with the state's next fiscal year.