SEC. 8.21. LIBRARY COMMISSION – NOTE CARDS.

The Library Commission is hereby authorized to print and sell note cards depicting books and other works of art in its library collection. The sales price for said note cards shall be established jointly by the Library Commission and the Purchaser of Supplies. Any and all moneys received from the sale of such note cards shall be deposited in the treasury in accordance with Charter provisions.

(Added by Ord. 279-65, App. 11/17/65)

(a) Authority. The Library Commission is hereby authorized to publish and sell, at no cost to the City and County, periodicals, monographs, pamphlets and books so published relating only to library subjects, San Francisco area subjects and San Francisco Library authorship as approved by the Library Commission.

(b) Establish Fund. There shall be established in the treasury of the City and County of San Francisco a special fund to be known and designated as the Library Publication Fund into which shall be deposited all monies received from the sale of any and all periodicals, monographs, pamphlets and books published pursuant to the authority herein contained.

The Library Commission is hereby authorized to accept any gift, devise or bequest for this purpose.

(c) Use of Money in Publication Fund. The monies received into the publication fund are hereby appropriated exclusively for the purpose of publishing and selling the items authorized and approved by the Library Commission.

(d) Administration of an Expenditure from Publication Fund. The sales price for said items shall be fixed by the Library Commission. Balances not in excess of $10,000 remaining in the fund at the close of any fiscal year shall have been deemed to have been provided for a specific purpose within the meaning of Section 6.306 of the Charter, and shall be carried forward and accumulated in said fund for the purposes recited herein. Monies in excess of $10,000 shall be transferred to the General Fund.

The Library Commission shall annually submit in writing to the Mayor, to the controller and to the Board of Supervisors a report showing the total receipts and disbursements of the preceding year together with a description of the items published.

(Added by Ord. 73-71, App. 3/25/71; amended by Ord. 156-99, File No. 990743, App. 6/2/99)

(a) Fee Schedule. The Library Commission is hereby authorized to charge fees for the use of library materials and services in accordance with the following schedule:

(b) Fees for Special Meeting Room Uses. The Library Commission is hereby authorized to charge fees for special uses of library meeting rooms

in accordance with the following schedule:

(c) Fees for Lost and Damaged Materials Owned by Other Libraries. The Library is hereby authorized to collect fees for lost or damaged materials that its patrons have borrowed from another library via interlibrary loan (ILL) in accordance with the following:

(1) in the case of lost or damaged materials borrowed from a member library of the LINK+ library consortium, the Library may collect the replacement fee set by LINK+, provided that the Library shall collect only the actual replacement cost of the item when authorized to do so by the lending library:

(2) for all other lost or damaged materials borrowed from another library via ILL, the Library may charge a replacement fee in the amount that is required by the lending library, which shall be either the fair market value of the lost item(s) or an amount set by the lending library not to exceed

$200 per item.

The fees authorized by this subsection (c) shall be collected for the sole purpose of forwarding them to the lending library from which the lost or damaged item(s) was borrowed.

(d) Ratification of Prior Fines and Fees. All fines and fees charged for the use of library materials and services before the effective date of the ordinance in Board File No. 161108 are hereby ratified.

(Added by Ord. 53-01, File No. 002067, App. 4/6/2001; amended by Ord. 171-08, File No. 080749, 7/30/2008; Ord. 164-13, File No. 130539, App. 8/2/2013, Eff. 9/1/2013; Ord. 2-17, File No. 161108, App. 1/20/2017, Eff. 2/19/2017; Ord. 250-18, File No. 180002, App. 11/2/2018, Eff. 12/3/2018; Ord. 196-19, File No. 190631, App. 8/9/2019, Eff. 9/9/2019)

The San Francisco Public Library ("Library") Commission shall be authorized to establish a library fee amnesty program to take place during a twoweek period prior to July 1, 2001. The Library Commission, after notice and public hearing, is authorized to waive all fees charged for overdue San Francisco Public Library materials ("late fees") based on a finding that this amnesty program is likely to promote the return of needed Library materials or promote the increased use of the Library. Such amnesty program shall allow persons to return overdue Library materials without having to pay any late fees. However, in order for a person to obtain a waiver of their late fees, such person must return all overdue materials on their Library account during the two-week amnesty period designated by the Library Commission. The Board of Supervisors, by resolution, may authorize the Library Commission to establish subsequent Library fee amnesty programs under the standards set forth in this section.

(Added by Ord. 64-01, File No. 010452, App. 4/27/2001)