§ 249. State library, when open; use of books. The state library
shall be kept open at least eight hours each day on five days every week
in the year
except the legal holidays known as Independence day, Thanksgiving day
and Christmas day. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the regents from open-
ing the state library on other days and times. Members of the legis-
lature, judges of the court
of appeals, justices of the supreme court and
heads of state departments
may borrow from the library books for use in
Albany, but shall be
subject to such restrictions and penalties as may
be prescribed by the
regents for the safety or greater usefulness of the
library. Under such
rules and conditions as the regents may prescribe,
the state library may
lend its books and printed material for a limited
time to other
individuals and institutions conforming to said rules and
conditions.
Such service shall be free to residents of this state as
far as
practicable, but the regents may, in their discretion, charge a
proper
fee to nonresidents or for assistance of a personal nature or for
other
reason not properly an expense to the state, but which may be
authorized
for the accommodation of users of the library.
[Amended 2011]