§ 7.40.030. Rules of conduct.

In order to protect the rights of library customers, staff, and volunteers, the following activities that a reasonable person would find disruptive to the normal functions being carried on at the library are prohibited:

(1)

Engaging in activities prohibited by law including but not limited to:

a.

Penal Code Section 415 (Fighting; Causing Loud Noise or Using Offensive Words in a Public Place),

b.

Penal Code Section 484 (Theft),

c.

Penal Code Section 490.5 (Theft of Library Books and Materials),

d.

Penal Code Section 594 (Vandalism),

e.

Penal Code Section 602.1(b) (Interfering with Library Business),

f.

Education Code Section 19910 (Maliciously Damaging Library Materials),

g.

Education Code Section 19911 (Failure to Return Library Materials After Notice), and

h.

Government Code Section 7597(a) (Smoking Any Tobacco Product Inside a Library Building or Within Twenty Feet of a Main Exit, Entrance, or Operable Window of a Library Building);

(2)

Engaging in loud, disruptive, or unsafe activity or behavior in library buildings or bookmobile that unreasonably interferes with another person's use of the library or with the ability of library staff or volunteers to perform their job duties including creating excessive noise, running, making verbal or physical threats, having body odor constituting a nuisance to other persons or any other behavior that unreasonably disturbs and inhibits others from using library buildings, bookmobile, materials, or services;

(3)

Disseminating, downloading, viewing or printing from public library computers illegal materials including but not limited to obscene or harmful matter as those terms are used in Penal Code Sections 311, et seq. and 313, et seq.;

(4)

Eating or drinking in unauthorized public areas within library buildings;

(5)

Buying, selling, surveying or soliciting of any kind within any library buildings or bookmobile or buying, selling, surveying or soliciting on library grounds that unreasonably interferes with the rights of others to use the library including but not limited to interference with access to library entrances or exits;

(6)

Conducting a for-profit business by meeting business customers within any library building or bookmobile or using library buildings, bookmobile or library resources for a business office when such uses unreasonably interfere with the rights of others to use the library;

(7)

Using library building space for nonlibrary purposes including but not limited to the playing of games (e.g., board, video, or card games) or sleeping when such uses unreasonably interfere with the rights of others to use the library;

(8)

Bringing animals, other than service animals for individuals with disabilities, into any library building or bookmobile;

(9)

For an adult who is responsible for the conduct and safety of a minor under his or her care, failing to provide proper supervision of the minor in a library building or bookmobile including but not limited to unreasonably leaving the minor unattended;

(10)

Exceeding the number of people who can reasonably sit together at library study tables or computer work stations;

(11)

Unreasonably impeding movement by others in a library building or bookmobile or creating a safety hazard by the inappropriate placement of personal belongings in a library building or bookmobile;

(12)

Failing to wear shoes and shirts at all times in library buildings or bookmobile; and

(13)

Violating a term or condition of a warning notice or an exclusion notice.

(Ord. 3060 § 1 (part), 2005)