Authorizes the board of trustees of a consolidated public library district to change the dates of the fiscal year, the official text

FIRST REGULAR SESSION
                        [TRULY AGREED TO AND FINALLY PASSED]

               SENATE BILL NO. 396

               103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
                                2025

    0394S.01T

                       AN ACT

    To repeal section 182.645, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to
                 consolidated public library districts.

    Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

1              Section A. Section 182.645, RSMo, is repealed and one new

2 section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 182.645,

3 to read as follows:

1              182.645. 1. The fiscal year for each consolidated

2 public library district shall be July first to June

3 thirtieth unless otherwise set by the board of trustees, and

4 each year the librarian shall submit to the board of

5 trustees a budget for the forthcoming fiscal year. The

6 board shall approve the budget after making any changes

7 therein that it deems necessary. The budget shall be

8 approved on or before [June thirtieth] the last day of the

9 fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which the budget

10 was prepared. The board on its own motion or at the request

11 of the librarian, from time to time, may amend or modify the

12 approved budget. A copy of the approved budget shall be

13 filed with each county commission or county executive office

14 of the counties comprising the consolidated public library

15 district, and with the state auditor.

16             2. The treasurer of the board of trustees of a

17 consolidated public library district shall receive and be

    EXPLANATION-Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in this bill is not enacted
    and is intended to be omitted in the law.
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18 the custodian of all money belonging to the district from

19 whatever source derived. All funds of the consolidated

20 public library district derived from local taxation to be

21 used for normal operations of the district and received from

22 the county collector, shall be kept in a consolidated

23 library operating fund. All funds belonging to the district

24 which are to be used for building purposes shall be kept in

25 a consolidated library building fund; all funds derived from

26 state aid or federal grants, other than land, building and

27 furnishing grants, shall be kept in the consolidated library

28 operating fund; and the board may establish any other funds

29 that it deems necessary. The treasurer shall deposit all

30 moneys belonging to the consolidated public library district

31 in the depositaries that are selected by the board of

32 trustees. The treasurer shall also be the custodian of all

33 bonds or other securities belonging to the consolidated

34 public library district.

35          3. Consolidated public library district moneys shall

36 be disbursed by the treasurer by appropriate instrument of

37 payment only upon due authorization of the consolidated

38 public library district board of trustees and duly certified

39 for payment by the president. The certification shall

40 specify the amount to be paid, to whom payment is to be made

41 and the purpose for which payment is being made. The board

42 by resolution may direct that the signature of the president

43 or treasurer be a facsimile signature in the manner provided

44 by sections 105.273 to 105.278.

45          4. No authorization or certification shall be made,

46 and no instrument of payment issued for the payment of any

47 consolidated public library district indebtedness unless

48 there is sufficient money in the treasury and the proper
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49 fund for the payment of the indebtedness and be in the

50 proper form.

51          5. The treasurer of the board of trustees shall submit

52 to the board of trustees, at each regularly scheduled

53 meeting of the board, an accounting reflecting receipt and

54 disbursement of funds belonging to the consolidated public

55 library district.

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