Okla. Stat. tit. 65, § 65-4-103: Governing boards - Membership - Tenure - Qualifications

- Compensation.

A. The Board of Trustees of a library system containing two or

more counties, herein defined as a multicounty library system, shall

consist of at least five (5) members. There shall be at least one

member from each county appointed by the board of county

commissioners. Additional members shall be appointed for each city

within the system with a public library located in the city, with

these appointments to be made by the governing body of the city.

Should the board serving a multicounty unit result in fewer than

five members, additional board members shall be appointed on a

proportional basis agreed upon by the county governments involved.

B. Any member serving on a system board as of the effective

date of this act shall continue to serve until the end of the

current term for which they were appointed. Thereafter,

appointments shall be made as provided for in subsection A of this

section.

C. Initial appointments shall be distributed among one-, two-

and three-year terms, with one-third (1/3) of the appointments to be

made for one (1) year, one-third (1/3) to be made for two (2) years

and one-third (1/3) for three (3) years. Subsequent appointments

shall be for three-year terms, except in the case of an appointment

to fill a vacancy in the membership of the system board, which

appointment shall be for the remainder of the unexpired term of the

member where death, resignation or removal has created the vacancy.

A partial term of not more than eighteen (18) months served

immediately prior to a full three-year term shall not be counted as

a full term. No person shall serve more than two full successive

terms. Provided that a person who previously served for two (2)

successive terms or less may be reappointed if two (2) years has

expired since the person’s last service on the board. All tenure of

initial and future appointees shall expire on June 30 of the

designated year. A member of a system board once qualified can

thereafter be removed by the appointive authority during his term of

office only for misconduct or neglect of duty.

D. Appointments to the system board shall be made on the basis

of ability, a sound understanding of the total responsibilities and

objectives of public libraries and an active interest in the

attainment of these comprehensive goals. Appointive members shall

be qualified electors and bona fide residents of the counties from

which they are appointed. No member of the system board shall in

any way be connected with the business of publishing or selling

books, periodicals or other forms of library materials nor with the

business of manufacturing or selling library supplies or equipment.

E. All system board members shall serve thereon without

compensation except actual and necessary travel expenses as

authorized by the State Travel Reimbursement Act. Individual

memberships for systems board members in state, regional, and

national library associations and expenses incurred in attending

conferences of these associations, board meetings and other library

and library-related meetings may be paid from library funds upon

proper authorization of the board.