ENROLLED
Senate Bill No. 537
(Originating in the Committee on Education.)
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[Passed April 10, 1997; to take effect July 1, 1997.]
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AN ACT to amend and reenact section thirteen, article one, chapter ten of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to setting the salary of the secretary of the West Virginia library commission.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section thirteen, article one, chapter ten of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1. PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
§10-1-13. State library commission -- Officers.
The officers of the commission shall be a chairman, elected from the members of the commission, for a term of one year, and a secretary, who shall be a person trained in modern library methods, not a member of the commission. The secretary shall be appointed by the commission and shall serve at the will of the commission. Notwithstanding any other provision of the code to the contrary, the salary of the secretary shall be sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars per year. The commission may establish headquarters or maintain its office at such point in the state as it may determine.
The secretary shall keep a record of the proceedings of the commission, have charge of its work in organizing new libraries and improving those already established, supervise the work of the traveling libraries, and in general perform such duties as may from time to time be assigned to him or her by the commission.