§1206. Board powers, duties, and functions
A. The board shall:
(1) Adopt bylaws establishing policies and procedures for its governance, subject to law and ordinances.
(2) Elect and define the responsibilities of the board's officers, including a chairman and vice chairman to serve terms of three years.
(3) Establish when museums will be open to the public.
(4) With the advice of the association, set policies for museums.
(5) Exercise the powers, duties, and functions with respect to accessions, deaccessions, loans, and conservation of museum properties and collections in accordance with law, ordinance, and professional museum practices as established by the American Association of Museums.
(6) With the advice of the association, have custody of and administer, manage, operate, maintain, and preserve the buildings, collections, and exhibitions of the West Baton Rouge Museum complex in Port Allen and any other museum.
(7) Be domiciled in Port Allen. However, additional offices may be established and maintained within other museums.
(8) Cooperate with the parish elementary and secondary schools in the teaching of the history and culture of the parish.
(9) Provide the governing authority with a report of its activities or other information, upon its request.
(10) Pay monthly the expenses or costs of the board's operations, including salaries and all other incidental expenses, out of funds budgeted for such purposes.
B. The board may:
(1) Contract with consulting experts in the fields of museum administration and conservation of paintings, books and papers, and other decorative arts, and with appraisers, buying agents, designers, engineers, attorneys, accountants, construction and financial experts, and other such persons as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of the board.
(2) Create from its membership an executive committee.
(3) Create additional committees which it deems necessary or expedient.
(4) Appoint nonboard members to any committee of the board other than the executive committee.
(5) With the advice of the association, set and charge admission and tour fees and user or rental fees to any public museum building or exhibit, as it deems necessary.
Acts 1991, No. 120, §1, eff. June 30, 1991.
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