Waitakere City Bylaws
Chapter 15 - Public Libraries
1501 Interpretation
1501.1 In this Part of this bylaw, unless inconsistent with the context:-
| BOOK |
includes magazine, newspaper, periodical, pamphlet, or manuscript or
other article of similar nature, or any part thereof respectively. |
| BORROWER |
means any person to whom the local authority has by registration or
otherwise granted any licence or privilege to borrow. |
| BORROWER’S CARD |
means any card issued by the librarian as a means of identification
of any borrower from the library. |
| DOCUMENT |
means any map, picture, or piece of music including a gramophone
record, photographic or negative film, or photocopy, whether the
property of the local authority or for the time being under the control
of the local authority. |
| LIBRARIAN |
includes any person for the time being appointed to control or
manage (or to assist in the control and management of) the library. |
| LIBRARY |
means any library established and carried on for the time being by
the local authority for use by the public or any section of the public,
and includes every portion of any building used for such purposes, and
includes a mobile library. |
| MAP |
includes a chart or plan or other article of a similar nature. |
| PICTURE |
includes an engraving, etching, print, or photograph or other
article of a similar nature, and includes any rental picture available
for hire. |
1502 Availability
1502.1 Subject to the provisions of this part of this bylaw relating to
subscriptions and charges for the borrowing of documents, the library and any
specified part or parts thereof shall be open and available to the public free
of charge at such times as the local authority may from time to time by
resolution direct.
Provided that the local authority shall have power to vary any such resolution
by wholly closing the library or any part thereof for any such period or periods
as it may think fit.
1503 Offences
1503.1 No person shall:-
| (a) |
Enter or remain in the library except when it is open and available
to the public, except with the express permission of the librarian. |
| (b) |
Consume or cause to be consumed in the library any intoxicating
liquor or offer to any person in the library any such liquor. |
| (c) |
While in a state of intoxication, or under the influence of drugs,
or unclean in person or dress, or suffering from any communicable
disease, enter, remain in, or use the library. |
| (d) |
Lie on any bench, chair, table, or floor in the library or sleep in
the library. |
| (e) |
Interfere in any way with any other person lawfully using the
library. |
| (f) |
While using the library fail to comply with all reasonable requests
of any librarian. |
| (g) |
Speak to any person or persons in any reading room or reference room
so as to cause annoyance to others or read aloud in any such room or
behave in a noisy or offensive manner in any part of the library. |
| (h) |
Consume refreshments, whistle, smoke or use tobacco, spit, or strike
a light in any part of the library. |
| (j) |
Suffer, cause, permit, or allow any dog or other animal under his
control to enter the library. If any dog or other animal enters the
library, the person under whose control the animal is for the time
being, and if no person is in control of the animal, the owner thereof
shall be guilty of an offence under this Part of this bylaw. |
| (k) |
Bring any wheeled vehicle or conveyance into the library without
the consent or permission of a librarian. |
| (m) |
Having brought into the library any article which in the opinion
of a librarian or other official of the library unduly interferes with
the use of the library by the public, fail to remove such article
immediately upon the request of such librarian or official. |
| (o) |
Make any mark on, soil, damage, mutilate, or deface any book or
document belonging to the library. |
| (p) |
Make any tracing of any book or document belonging to the
library. |
| (q) |
Turn down or extract any leaf or page of any book or document
belonging to the library. |
| (r) |
Remove any number, label, or mark of ownership from, or cause or
permit any damage or injury to, any book or document belonging to the
library. |
| (s) |
Soil, damage, mutilate, or deface any portion of any library or
any furniture or fitting thereof or any property of the local authority
connected therewith. |
| (t) |
Take any book or document out of any part of the library or any
furniture or fitting thereof or any property of the local authority
connected therewith. |
| (u) |
While in the library fail at any time at the request of a
librarian to give his correct name and address and if under the age of
18 years to give also his correct age at the request of a librarian. |
1504 Rules of Control
1504.1 The local authority from time to time by resolution make rules:-
| (a) |
For the internal control, management, and use of the library. |
| (b) |
For determining the number of books or documents to be lent to any
one borrower to be held at one time. |
| (c) |
For determining the times and hours during which the library shall
from time to time be open and the holiday, days, and times upon which it
may be closed. |
| (d) |
For determining the hours during which any book or document may be
borrowed from any specified portion or department of the library. |
| (e) |
For determining the time to be allowed for the return of any book or
document. |
| (f) |
For maintaining good order and conduct within the library and |
| (g) |
For fees and charges payable by persons using the services of any
department of the library. |
1505 Unauthorised use of Borrower’s Card
1505.1 Any person who is not named in any borrower’s card or duly authorised by
the person so named, who shall make use of any such card for the purpose of
obtaining any book or document from the library shall be guilty of an offence
against this part of this bylaw.
1506 Borrowing
1506.1 No person shall be entitled as of right to borrow any book or document
specified as a reference book or document.
Provided however, that librarians may at their discretion permit any such book
or document to be borrowed by any holder or a borrower’s card subject to
compliance with any conditions laid down by the librarian.
1506.2 No person shall take or borrow any book or document from a library except
with the knowledge of a librarian.
1507 Damage to Books
1507.1 If any book or document be lost or be returned torn, cut, soiled, written
in, or with leaves turned down or otherwise injured, the borrower shall pay to
the local authority such a sum of money as will replace such book or document or
as will be a full compensation for any damage or loss occasioned to the local
authority thereby.
1508 Unpaid Money
1508.1 No person owing any money to the local authority in connection with any
library shall take out or borrow any book or document, and any librarian may
impound the borrower’s card of any such person.
1509 Change of Address
1509.1 Every holder of a borrower’s card shall notify any change in his address
to a librarian.
1510 Communicable Disease
1510.1 No person suffering from any communicable disease shall borrow, read, or
use any book or document from the library.
1510.2 No person having a book or document from the library shall permit the
same to be used by any other person suffering from any communicable disease.
1510.3 If any book or document from the library shall be in the possession of
any person suffering from any communicable disease, the borrower of such book or
document shall at once give notice to the Environmental Health Officer who shall
cause the book or document to be disinfected and thereafter returned to the
library.
1511 Newspaper Reading
1511.1 Every person who shall in any library be in possession of any newspaper
belonging to such library shall, after being required by another person or by a
librarian to deliver such newspaper to him, so deliver up the same within 10
minutes after being so required, and every person failing so to deliver up such
newspaper shall be guilty of an offence against this part of this bylaw.
1512 Unauthorised taking of Books
1512.1 Any person taking or attempting to take (other than as a borrower) any
book, document, or other article from a library, and any person knowingly
pledging, pawning, selling, or purchasing or advancing money on any such book,
document, or article or attempting to do so, shall be guilty of an offence
against this part of this bylaw.
1513 Expulsion of Offenders
Any librarian may require any person guilty of disorderly conduct in the
library, or any person who is not bona fide using the library for the purpose
for which it is intended, to remove himself therefrom, and any refusal on the
part of the offender so to do will constitute an offence against this part of
this bylaw in addition to any other offence of which such offender shall be
guilty.
1514 Breach
1514.1 Where in the opinion of the local authority any person has contravened
any of the provisions of this part of this bylaw relating to the library or has
otherwise acted in an unlawful manner in the library, the local authority may
exclude that person from the library for such period of time as the local
authority may specify.
1514.2 Any person offending against, contravening, or committing or permitting
or suffering a breach of any of the aforesaid provisions shall be guilty of an
offence against this part of this bylaw.
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