California Law Revision Commission

-- Last revised Tuesday, November 12, 2002, 12:19 PM --

Law Library Board of Trustees

Business and Professions Code Section 6301 establishes criteria for selection of a law library board of trustees. To promote flexibility, improve clarity, and build relations between law libraries and the general public, the Commission recommended to revise this provision to:

(1) Reflect trial court unification by eliminating the references to municipal courts.
(2) Permit the judges of a superior court to select either four or five law library trustees at their discretion, without regard to the number of judge trustees authorized as of January 1, 1998.
(3) Clarify which attorneys may serve on a law library board.
(4) Increase flexibility as to the size of a law library board.
(5) Permit laypersons to serve on the law library board in specified circumstances.

The Commission also proposed to expand the scope of a special provision that permits reduction of the size of the law library board in some counties (Bus. & Prof. Code § 6301.5). The Commission's recommendation was enacted by the Legislature. See below.
If you have questions or comments on this study, send email to Barbara Gaal at bgaal@clrc.ca.gov.

Legislation

2001: Assembly Bill 1103 (Papan) -- Bill information at Legislative Counsel's website
Enacted. 2001 Cal. Stat. ch. 52

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Final Recommendation

Recommendation -- Law Library Board of Trustees (2/15/2001)

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Tentative Recommendations and Other Requests for Comment

Tentative Rec. -- Law Library Board of Trustees [Revised] (April 2000)
Tentative Rec. -- Law Library Board of Trustees (January 2000)

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Staff Memoranda

Memo 2001-57 -- AB 1103 (Papan): Law Library Board of Trustees (6/21/2001)
Memo 2001-38, Supp. 2 -- AB 1103 (Papan): Law library Board of Trustees (5/17/2001)
Memo 2001-21, Supp. 2 -- Law Library Board of Trustees: Deletion of References to Municipal Court (Second Revised Staff Draft Recommendation) (1/29/2001)
Memo 2001-21, Supp. 1 -- Law Library Board of Trustees (Comments on Revised Staff Draft Recommendation) (1/25/2001)
Memo 2001-21 -- Law Library Board of Trustees (Revised Staff Draft Recommendation) (12/22/2000)
Memo 2000-80, Supp. 1 -- Law Library Board of Trustees: Comments of Shirley David (12/13/2000)
Memo 2000-80, Supp. 2 -- Law Library Board of Trustees: Further Comment (12/13/2000)
Memo 2000-80 -- Law Library Board of Trustees (Draft Recommendation) (12/1/2000)
Memo 2000-70, Supp. 1 -- Law Library Board of Trustees (Comments of Sonoma County Law Library) (10/3/2000)
Memo 2000-70 -- Law Library Board of Trustees (Comments on Revised Tentative Recommendation) (9/29/2000)
Memo 2000-30, Supp. 2 -- Law Library Board of Trustees (Comments of CCCLL) (4/12/2000)
Memo 2000-30, Supp. 1 -- Law Library Board of Trustees (Comments of Santa Clara County Law Library Board)) (4/10/2000)
Memo 2000-30 -- Law Library Board of Trustees: Comments on Tentative Recommendation (4/4/2000)
Memo 99-14 -- Trial Court Unification: Law Library Board in Unified Court (6/23/99)

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