Ch. 64                               MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                  117

(1)       Appoint a Director of the State Library who shall receive such
compensation as provided in the State budget.

(2)    Make rules and regulations as it may deem necessary and proper for the
conduct and operation of said Library.

(3)    Direct the Director to purchase from time to time such books, maps and
periodicals as it may deem advisable for the use of the Library.

(d) The Director of the State Library shall:

(1)    Have power to appoint, with the approval of the library committee, such
employees as he shall deem necessary to carry out the performance of his duties,
and the persons so appointed shall receive such compensation as provided in the
State budget.

(2)   Distribute, under the supervision and direction of the library committee, the
bound copies of the laws and journals of the General Assembly, the Maryland
Reports and Maryland Appellate Reports, including the advance reports to the
Maryland Reports. The remaining copies shall be retained in the State Library or
may be used by the State Library for exchange purposes.

(3)    Deliver to each public circulating library, or library association which may
make application therefor, one copy of the laws and journals, provided there be at
the time of application more than twenty-five copies of the volume applied for in
the Library.

(4)    Not allow any book, map or documents to be taken out of said Library
except by the Executive and Legislative Departments, and other State agencies
located in Annapolis, members of the General Assembly, Judges of the Court of
Appeals, Court of Special Appeals, and on inter-library loan to other libraries.

(5)    Have, with the approval of the library committee, the power and authority
to sell and/or exchange from time to time such books, including the Maryland
Reports, Maryland Appellate Reports, Session Laws, Codes, maps and periodicals,
in the State Library, as he considers prudent and desirable to sell and/or exchange,
and the proceeds of such sales, after deducting the expenses incident thereto, shall
be paid over to the State Treasurer within thirty days after the receipt thereof;
provided no book, map or periodical shall be so sold if its sale would break a set.

(6)    Report in writing to the library committee as often as may be required by
the Committee upon the operations of the Library.

(7)   Perform such other duties as may be assigned to him by law.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved April 26, 1973.