Rules of Conduct While Using the Fresno County Library
The Fresno County Library welcomes all patrons who comply with these Rules of Conduct, to use the Library to the maximum extent during our regular business hours. We intend to maintain this Library as a quiet, orderly, and sanitary environment for limited purposes of allowing our patrons to ready, study, and use the Library’s materials and services.
Therefore, we expect patrons to respect other patrons’ use of the Library for these purposes and to respect the Library’s books, buildings, and other property. Any patron’s conduct which disrupts or interferes with other patrons’ proper use of the Library or the Library’s operations is prohibited. Also, any patron’s conduct which threatens the safety of other patrons or the Library’s staff is prohibited. Examples of conduct which is prohibited under these Rules are listed below:
Any patron who engages in any of the following conduct will be asked to cease such conduct. If the patron fails to do so, he or she will be asked to leave the Library premises. Any patron who refuses to comply with any such request will be expelled from the Library premises.
- Loud talking, or engaging in noisy or boisterous activities that interfere with or are disruptive to other patrons’ use of the Library.
- Using cell phones, pagers, and other communication devices in a manner that disturbs others. Audible cell phone and pager ringers must be turned off and loud or extended conversations moved outside the Library.
- Leaving children unattended anywhere on the Library premises if they cannot care for themselves or if such children interfere with or disrupt other patrons’ use of the Library.
- Giving speeches or handing out literature in the Library (however, such conduct may be allowed in the Library public meeting rooms upon receiving permission from the appropriate Library official).
- Soliciting money on the Library premises.
- Eating, drinking, smoking, bathing, or sleeping in the Library.
- Bringing animals, other than service animals, into the Library.
Any patron who engages in any of the following conduct will be asked to leave the Library premises. Any patron who refuses to comply with any such request will be expelled from the Library premises.
- Willfully damaging Library materials, buildings, furnishings, equipment or grounds.
- Theft of Library materials.
- Unlawfully possessing deadly weapons of any kind on the Library premises.
- Having unsanitary bodily hygiene which is so offensive to other persons that it constitutes a nuisance in the Library.
- Engaging in unlawful sexual conduct on Library premises.
- Using or taking illegal drugs or alcoholic beverages or being under the influence of either.
In enforcing these Rules of Conduct, the Library reserves the right to take any action it deems necessary to exercise or preserve any of its rights and remedies under the law, including, but not limited to, pursuing legal action for monetary damages against a patron who causes damage to or loss of the Library materials, buildings, furnishings, equipment, or grounds. Any such legal action will be brought by the County of Fresno for the Library.
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