§ 19148 County Librarian Salary Funding

• •In big counties (with more than 400,000 people), the county librarian's salary can come from the same money used to run the free library.
• •This rule doesn’t change the fact that the county librarian is still an official county worker.
• •This law was made in 1976 and applies to counties that had over 400,000 people in the 1960 census.

A big county like Los Angeles wants to pay its librarian from the library's budget.

The county can decide to use the library's money to pay the librarian's salary, but the librarian is still an official county worker like before.