Utah Code § 9-7-402
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§ 9-7-402. Establishment and maintenance of public library -- Library board of directors -- Expenses.
Official statutory text
(1) A city's governing body may establish and maintain a public library. (2) When the city governing body decides to establish and maintain a city public library under the provisions of this part, it shall appoint a library board of directors of not less than five members and not more than nine members, chosen from the citizens of the city and based upon their fitness for the office. (3) Only one member of the city governing body may be, at any one time, a member of the library board. (4) Each director shall serve without compensation, but their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties may be paid from library funds.
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