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House Rules
Library card.
A library card is required before a customer may borrow or use
library material or request enhanced services. Failure to promptly
inform the library that the customer’s card has been lost or stolen
may cause the customer to be responsible for material borrowed.
(Hawaii Administrative Rules, Title 8 Department of Education,
Subtitle 3 Public Libraries, 200.1-3)
Library material
security. Any library customer leaving a public library with
library material shall be required to charge the library material
out upon presentation of a library card. (8-201.1-4)
Smoking.
Smoking is prohibited within a public library. (8-201.1-5)
Alcoholic
beverages. Consumption and use of alcoholic beverages is
prohibited in a public library. (8-201.1-6)
Food consumption.
Eating and drinking are prohibited in a public library except that
refreshments may be served in a meeting room, or as otherwise
authorized by the state librarian. (8-201.1-7)
Animals.
Animals, other than those used as aids to people with physical
disabilities, are prohibited from a public library, unless otherwise
authorized by the branch library manager. (8-201.1-8)
Skates. (a)
Skates shall not be worn or used in or on public library property,
unless otherwise authorized by the branch library manager. (b) As
used in this section, "skates" shall mean and include roller skates,
in line skates, and skateboards. (8-201.1-9)
Unattended child.
The public library shall not be responsible for the care of any
child left unattended in a public library. A child aged five and
below shall be accompanied by a parent, guardian, adult, or
responsible person at all times while in a public library. A child
aged five and below left unattended by a parent, guardian, adult, or
responsible person may be reported to the police or other
responsible public agency. (8-201.1-10)
Personal property.
Neither the public library nor the public library staff is
responsible for personal items left, stolen, or damaged on public
library property. (8-201.1-12)
Disruptive
behavior. Any behavior deemed disruptive by the library staff
shall be prohibited at all times. If the library customer continues
to display disruptive behavior after being warned by the branch
library manager or designee, the customer shall be requested to
leave the library until the disruptive behavior has ceased.
Prohibited disruptive behavior is that which unduly interferes with
another library customer’s quiet enjoyment and use of the public
library. Examples are: fighting; excessive and/or loud noise;
display of offensive images on internet terminals; offensive body
odor. (8-201.1-13)
Unlawful or
malicious damage. Any person who unlawfully or maliciously
cuts, tears, defaces, disfigures, soils, obliterates, breaks, or
otherwise damages any library material shall be referred to the
branch library manager, and if necessary, shall be reported to the
police. (8-201.1-14)
Denial of use.
Any person violating any decision or order of the state librarian,
department, branch library manager, or any administrative rule
adopted by the state librarian, may be denied use of a public
library for a period of time to be determined by the branch library
manager or state librarian. (8-201.1-16)
(Auth: HRS §§296-19,
312-1) (Imp: HRS §312-1)
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