Maharashtra Public Libraries Act, 1967

No: 34 Dated: Dec, 20 1967

THE MAHARASHTRA PUBLIC LIBRARIES ACT, 1967

ACT No. XXXIV OF 1967

    An Act to provide for the establishment, maintenance, organisation and development of public libraries in the State of Maharashtra.

    WHEREAS, it is expedient to provide for the establishment, maintenance, organisation and development of public libraries, in the State of Maharashtra and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid;

It is hereby enacted in the Eighteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows :—

CHAPTER I

PRELIMINARY

1. Short title, extent and commencement:- (1) This Act may be called the Maharashtra Public Libraries Act, 1967.

(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Maharashtra.

(3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint in that behalf; and different dates may be appointed for bringing this Act into force in different areas of this State.

2. Definitions:- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— 

(i) "book" include every volume, part or division of a volume and pamphlet in any language, and every sheet of music, map, chart or plan separately printed or lithographed, newspapers, periodicals, paintings, films, slides, discs, or tapes used for audio-visual information and such other materials;

(ii) "Committee" means a Library Committee appointed under section 13;

(iii) "compensatory allowance" means the travelling allowance, the daily allowance or such other allowance which is paid to the members of the Council or Committee for the purpose of meeting the personal expenditure incurred by them in attending the meetings of such Council or Committee or in performing any other functions as such members for the purposes of this Act;

(iv) "Council" means the State Library Council constituted under section 3;

(v) "Director" means the Director of Libraries appointed under section 8;

(vi) "district" means a revenue district;

[(vii) "Division" means a revenue division specified under clause (i) of sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966;]

(viii) "municipal corporation" means a municipal corporation constituted under the [Mumbai] Municipal Corporation Act, or the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations, Act, 1949 or the City of Nagpur Corporation Act, 1948:

[(ix) "Municipal Council" means a Municipal Council constituted or deemed to be constituted under the Maharashtra Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Industrial Townships Act, 1965;]

(x) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act:

(xi) "public library" means, -

(a) a library established and maintained by the State Government for the use of the public;

(b) a library recognized by the Director for the purposes of grant-in-aid from the Library Fund; and

(c) any other library which the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette declares to be a public library for the purposes of this Act;

(xii) "Year" means the financial year.