Behaviour of persons using a library
22 Behaviour of persons using a library
A person attending a library shall comply with any reasonable direction of a librarian and shall not wilfully obstruct any officer or servant of the library authority or the Board in the execution of his duty or wilfully disturb, interrupt or annoy any other person in the proper use of the library.
A person shall not —
lie on the chairs, tables, floor or any other part of the library;
smoke, sleep or partake of refreshment in the library,
except in special areas, if any, specified by the library authority as being set aside for such activities or any one of them.
Except with the consent of the librarian, a person shall not offer any goods or services for sale in a library.
A person shall not behave in a disorderly manner, or use violent, abusive or obscene language in a library.
A person, other than an officer or servant of the library authority shall not, after proper warning, remain in the library beyond the hour fixed for the closing of the library.
A person shall not carelessly, negligently or maliciously soil, tear, cut, deface, damage, injure or destroy any book or any object forming part of the contents of the library, whether within the library or elsewhere.
A person shall not take a tracing from any book except through a protective screen and with the permission of the librarian.
A person shall not, without abiding by the rules of the library authority, take or cause to be taken from the library or receive or be in possession of any book forming part of the contents of the library, whether or not the property of the Board or of the library authority.
A person shall not misplace or secrete any book or any record of a book in the library with the intent to withhold its use from others.
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