(1974)

DR. BARBARA THOMPSON, State Superintendent, Department of PublicInstruction

You request my opinion whether a county board, in a county having a federated public library system whose territory lies within a single county and which is governed by a system board pursuant to sec. 43.19 (1) (a), Stats., can abolish such system board and transfer the functions, duties, responsibilities and privileges of such board to a committee of the county board of supervisors.

I am of the opinion that it cannot. Whereas sec. 43.18 (2), Stats., would permit the county to abolish "a public library system" whose…