Connecticut § 11-31a Definitions.

Connecticut Statutes

§ 11-31a — Definitions.

Connecticut § 11-31a

Title 11Libraries and Museums

Ch. 190Public Libraries

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Bluebook

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 11-31a (2026).

Text

As used in section 11-31b:

(a)“Connecticard” means a cooperative program among public libraries in Connecticut which allows a resident of any town in the state who holds a valid borrower card issued by his home library to use that card to borrow materials from any public library in the state that is participating in the program;

(b)“Connecticard transaction” means each lending of a recognized unit of library material by a participating library to a person who is a resident of any Connecticut town except the town in which the library is located or any towns for which the library has been designated the principal public library and who has presented a valid Connecticard borrower card at the library making the loan;

(c)“Net plus transaction” means the library services, based on the number

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As used in section 11-31b: (a) “Connecticard” means a cooperative program among public libraries in Connecticut which allows a resident of any town in the state who holds a valid borrower card issued by his home library to use that card to borrow materials from any public library in the state that is participating in the program; (b) “Connecticard transaction” means each lending of a recognized unit of library material by a participating library to a person who is a resident of any Connecticut town except the town in which the library is located or any towns for which the library has been designated the principal public library and who has presented a valid Connecticard borrower card at the library making the loan; (c) “Net plus transaction” means the library services, based on the number of items loaned, rendered to nonresidents of towns normally served by libraries offering state-wide services in excess of the library service rendered to residents of such towns by other libraries; (d) “Participating library” means a library which has signed a letter of agreement on file with the State Library; (e) “Resident” means that a person is principally domiciled in a town. A borrower who holds dual residency or who owns property in more than one town is considered a resident only in the town where he is principally domiciled. In all other towns, that borrower shall be a nonresident.

Legislative History

(P.A. 73-645, S. 1, 5; P.A. 82-304, S. 1, 4.) History: P.A. 82-304 repealed text concerning state-wide library services and substituted definitions for the Connecticard program.