SEC. 13. That in order to secure the benefits of the appropriations for the salaries of teachers, supervisors, or directors of agricultural subjects, or for the salaries of teachers of trade, home economics, and industrial subjects, or for the training of teachers as herein provided, any State shall, through the legislative authority thereof, appoint as custodian for said appropriations its State treasurer, who shall receive and provide for the proper custody and disbursement of all money paid to the State from such appropriations.

(20 U.S.C. 23) Enacted Feb. 23, 1917, C. 114, P.L. 347, 64th Cong., sec. 13, 39 Stat. 935.

SEC. 14. That the Federal Board for Vocational Education shall annually ascertain whether the several States are using, or are prepared to use, the money received by them in accordance with the provisions of this Act. On or before the first day of January of each year the Federal Board for Vocational Education shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury each State which has accepted the provisions of this Act and complied therewith, certifying the amounts which each State is entitled to receive under the provisions of this Act. Upon such certification the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay quarterly to the custodian for vocational education of each State the moneys to which it is entitled under the provisions of this Act. The moneys so received by the custodian for vocational education for any State shall be paid out on the requisition of the State board as reimbursement for expenditures already incurred to such schools as are approved by said State board and are entitled to receive such moneys under the provisions of this Act.

(20 U.S.C. 24) Enacted Feb. 23, 1917, C. 114, P.L. 347, 64th Cong., sec. 14, 39 Stat. 935.

SEC. 15. That whenever any portion of the fund annually allotted to any State has not been expended for the purpose provided for in this Act, a sum equal to such portions shall be deducted by the Federal board from the next succeeding annual allotment from such fund to such State.

(20 U.S.C. 25) Enacted Feb. 23, 1917, C. 114 P.L. 347, 64th Cong., sec. 15, 39 Stat. 936.

SEC. 16. That the Federal Board for Vocational Education may withhold the allotment of moneys to any State whenever it shall be determined that such moneys are not being expended for the purposes and under the conditions of this Act.

If any allotment is withheld from any State, the State board of such State may appeal to the Congress of the United States, and if the Congress shall not direct such sum to be paid it shall be covered into the Treasury.

(20 U.S.C. 26) Enacted Feb. 23, 1917, C. 114, P.L. 347, 64th Cong., sec. 16, 39 Stat. 936.

SEC. 17. That if any portion of the moneys received by the custodian for vocational education of any State under this Act, for any given purpose named in this Act, shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by such State, and until so replaced no subsequent appropriation for such education shall be paid

to such State. No portion of any moneys appropriated under this Act for the benefit of the States shall be applied, directly or indirectly, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings or equipment, or for the purchase or rental of lands, or for the support of any religious or privately owned or conducted school or college.

(20 U.S.C. 27) Enacted Feb. 23, 1917, C. 114, P.L. 347, 64th Cong., Sec. 17, 39 Stat. 936.

SEC. 18. That the Federal Board for Vocational Education shall make an annual report to Congress, on or before December first, on the administration of this Act and shall include in such report the reports made by the State boards on the administration of this Act by each State and the expenditures of the money allotted to each State.

(20 U.S.C. 28) Enacted Feb. 23, 1917, C. 114, P.L. 347, 64th Cong., sec. 18, 39 Stat. 936.

PART VII-PUBLIC LIBRARY PROGRAMS

The Library Services and Construction Act 1

(P.L. 597, 84th Congress)

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AN ACT To promote the further development of public library services

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemlbed, That this Act may be cited as the "Library Services and Construction Act."

DECLARATION OF POLICY

SEC. 2. (a) It is the purpose of this Act to assist the States in the extension and improvement of public library services in areas of the States which are without such services or in which such services are inadequate, and with public library construction, and in the improvement of such other State library services as library services for physically handicapped, institutionalized, and disadvantaged persons, in strengthening State library administrative agencies, and in promoting interlibrary cooperation among all types of libraries.

(b) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to interfere with State and local initiative and responsibility in the conduct of library services. The administration of libraries, the selection of personnel and library books and materials, and, insofar as consistent with the purposes of this Act, the determination of the best uses of the funds provided under this Act shall be reserved to the States and their local subdivisions.

(20 U.S.C. 351) Enacted Dec. 30, 1970, P.L. 91-600, sec. 2(b), 84 Stat. 1660.

DEFINITIONS

SEC. 3. The following definitions shall apply to this Act: (1) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Education. (2) "Construction" includes construction of new buildings and acquisition, expansion, remodeling, and alteration of existing buildings, and initial equipment of any such buildings, or any combination of such activities (including architects' fees and the cost of acquisition of land). For the purposes of this paragraph, the term "equipment” includes machinery, utilities, and built-in equipment and any necessary enclosures or structures to house them; and such term in

1 Sec. 519 of P.L. 93-380 provides as follows:

"SEC. 519 (a) There is established, in the Office of Education, an Office of Libraries and Learning Resources (hereafter in this section referred to as the "Office"), through which the Commissioner shall administer all programs in the Office of Education related to assistance for, and encouragement of, libraries and information centers and education technology. "(b) The Office shall be headed by a Director, to whom the Commissioner shall delegate his delegable functions with respect to the programs administered through the Office."

cludes all other items necessary for the functioning of a particular facility as a facility for the provision of library services.

(3) "Library service" means the performance of all activities of a library relating to the collection and organization of library materials and to making the materials and information of a library available to a clientele.

(4) "Library services for the physically handicapped" means the providing of library services, through public or other nonprofit libraries, agencies, or organizations, to physically handicapped persons (including the blind and other visually handicapped) certified by competent authority as unable to read or to use conventional printed materials as a result of physical limitations.

(5) "Public library" means a library that serves free of charge all residents of a community, district, or region, and receives its financial support in whole or in part from public funds. Such term also includes a research library, which, for the purposes of this sentence, means a library which

(A) makes its services available to the public free of charge; (B) has extensive collections of books, manuscripts, and other materials suitable for scholarly research which are not available to the public through public libraries;

(C) engages in the dissemination of humanistic knowledge through services to readers, fellowships, educational and cultural programs, publication of significant research, and other activities; and

(D) is not an integral part of an institution of higher education. (6) "Public library services" means library services furnished by a public library free of charge.

(7) "State" means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

(8) "State Advisory Council on Libraries" means an advisory council for the purposes of clause (3) of section 6(a) of this Act which shall

(A) be broadly representative of the public, school, academic, special, and institutional libraries, and libraries serving the handicapped, in the State and of persons using such libraries, including disadvantaged persons within the State;

(B) advise the State library administrative agency on the development of, and policy matters arising in the administration of, State plan; and

(C) assist the State library administrative agency in the evaluation of activities assisted under this Act;

(9) "State institutional library services" means the providing of books and other library materials, and of library services, to (A) inmates, patients, or residents of penal institutions, reformatories, residential training schools, orphanages, or general or special institutions or hospitals operated or substantially supported by the State, or (B) students in residential schools for the physically handicapped (including mentally retarded, hard of hearing, deaf, speech impaired, visually handicapped, seriously emotionally disturbed, crippled, or other health impaired persons who by reason thereof require special education) operated or substantially supported by the State.