Chapter V Chapter V

Disqualification and Affiliation

No person to be a member of more than one Council 60[****].— Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions, no person shall be a member of more than one District Library Council or of more than one 61[Taluk Library Council] and if a person is chosen as a member of more than one District Library Council or 62[Taluk Library Council] and he does not specify the Council 63[***] of which he desires to be a member within thirty days from the date of last election or nomination, as the case may be, then on the expiration of such period his membership in all the Councils 64[*****] shall cease.

Disqualification of members of State Library Council, District Library Council and Taluk Library Council.— A person shall be disqualified for being chosen as, or for being, a member of the State Library Council, the District Library Council or the Taluk Library Council,—

1. (a) if he absents himself without leave being granted by the State Library Council or the District Library Council or the Taluk Library Council, as the case may be, from three consecutive meetings of the Council; or
2. (b) if he ceases to hold the office or be a member of the body or authority by virtue of which he has been elected; or
3. (c) if he has been sentenced by a criminal court for an offence involving moral turpitude and punishable with imprisonment for a term exceeding three months, such sentence not having been subsequently reversed, quashed or remitted; or
4. (d) if he is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court.

Affiliation of Libraries.—

1. (1) Any library other than a library established or maintained by the State Library Council or a District Library Council or a Taluk Library Council may apply, in such form as may be prescribed, to the Taluk Library Council of the Taluk in which it is situated for recognition as an affiliated library under this Act.
2. (2) The Taluk Library Council shall consider the application and it is satisfied that the conditions prescribed for granting affiliation have been complied with, recommend the application through the District library /council to the State Library Council for affiliation and on such affiliation being granted, the library shall be treated as an affiliated library.
3. (3) A person aggrieved by any decision of the Taluk Library Council with regard to the affiliation of library may appeal to the state library council in writing through the District Library Council within thirty days of such decision, and the decision of the State Library Council after obtaining the opinion of the District Library Council thereon shall be final.