(A) The town hereby establishes a free public library to be located within the town, to be known as the “Salem Free Public Library.”
(B) The management of said free public library shall be vested in a Board of Directors consisting of six members who shall be electors of the town.
(C) At the next town election held after the adoption of this section, there shall be elected to said Board of Directors six members; two of whom shall hold office for two years, two for four years, and two for six years. At each town election held thereafter, members shall be elected for six-year terms to fill vacancies arising by expiration of terms. Vacancies arising before expiration of terms shall be tilled until the next town election by the Selectmen. At said next town election, the electors shall vote on filling the unexpired terms.
(D) Within 30 days after the adoption of this section, the Board of Selectmen shall appoint six members to said Board of Directors to serve until their successors shall be elected as hereinbefore provided.
(E) No more than three of the appointed or elected members of the Board of Directors shall be members of the same political party.
(F) Said Board of Directors shall have and exercise all the powers conferred upon similar boards of directors of public libraries under the provisions of Conn. Gen. Stat. Chapter 190, being §§ 11-20 to 11-37, as presently in force and such amendments thereto as may subsequently be made, subject to all and the singular limitations therein contained. Said Board of Directors may make bylaws for its government consistent with the powers conferred upon it, and shall have the exclusive right to expend all money appropriated by the town for said library.
(G) All of the personal property, and the building, and so much of the land reasonably required, in the judgment of the Board of Selectmen, for use in connection with such library, as may be given to the Salem Library, Incorporated, a private corporation, shall be used and devoted to the purpose of tree public library herein established.
(Ord. passed 3-3-1962)