Iowa § 298.7 Contract for use of library — tax levy

Iowa Statutes

§ 298.7 — Contract for use of library — tax levy

Iowa § 298.7

Title VIIEDUCATION, HISTORY, AND CULTURE

Ch. 298SCHOOL TAXES AND BONDS

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Iowa Code § 298.7 (2026).

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1.The board of directors of a school corporation in which there is no free public library may contract with a free public library for the free use of the library by the residents of the school district, and pay the library the amount agreed upon for the use of the library as provided by law. During the existence of the contract, the board shall certify annually a tax sufficient to pay the library the consideration agreed upon, not exceeding twenty cents per thousand dollars of assessed value of the taxable property of the district. During the existence of the contract, the school corporation is relieved from the requirement that the schooltreasurerwithholdfundsforlibrarypurposes. Thissectiondoesnotapplyintownships where a contract for other library facilities is in existence.

2.However,

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1. The board of directors of a school corporation in which there is no free public library
may contract with a free public library for the free use of the library by the residents of
the school district, and pay the library the amount agreed upon for the use of the library
as provided by law. During the existence of the contract, the board shall certify annually a
tax sufficient to pay the library the consideration agreed upon, not exceeding twenty cents
per thousand dollars of assessed value of the taxable property of the district. During the
existence of the contract, the school corporation is relieved from the requirement that the
schooltreasurerwithholdfundsforlibrarypurposes. Thissectiondoesnotapplyintownships
where a contract for other library facilities is in existence.
2. However, if a school district which is qualified to contract for library services under
subsection1leviesataxnottoexceedtwentycentsperthousanddollarsofassessedvaluation
of the taxable property for school library purposes in the fiscal year before a reorganization

involving the district, the tax levy shall remain valid for succeeding fiscal years, and shall
be levied and collected against the taxable property of the former district which is part of
the reorganized district for school library purposes. The contract and the tax levy may be
discontinued by a petition signed by eligible electors residing in the former district. The
petition requesting the discontinuance must be signed by no fewer than one hundred eligible
electors or thirty percent of the number voting at the last preceding school election in the
formerdistrict, whicheverisgreater. Thepetitionmustbefiledwiththesecretaryoftheboard
of directors of the school district at least seventy-five days before the next regular school
election. The proposal to discontinue the levy shall be deemed adopted if the vote in favor of
the discontinuance is equal to at least a majority of the total vote cast on the proposal by the
electors of the former school district.