[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Township
of Mount Olive 2-13-1979 by Ord. No. 1-79 (Ch. 146 of the 1990
Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any books, photographs, written material, phonograph records,
movie films and other materials provided by the library for the use
and convenience of patrons.
Any library owned or established or operated by the Township
of Mount Olive pursuant to appropriate state statutes.
Any library operated by a nonprofit corporation, governed
by a Board of Trustees and receiving financial aid from the Township
of Mount Olive.
No person, firm or corporation shall remove library materials
from any public or semipublic library within the Township of Mount
Olive without complying with that library's procedures with respect
to borrowing library materials.
No person shall refuse or fail to return any materials borrowed
from a public or semipublic library within the Township of Mount Olive
within the time periods provided.
No person shall willfully or maliciously cut, tear, deface,
disfigure, damage or destroy any book or other article or any part
thereof which is owned by or is in the custody of such library.
No person, with intent to defraud, shall register or furnish
a false name or address nor use any card other than the one issued
to said person for the purpose of borrowing any book or article from
said library.
A.Â
Persons failing to return library materials within the time required
shall be notified by the library by certified mail, return receipt
requested, that the materials must be returned within seven days of
the date of receipt of said notice. Failure to comply with said notice
and return the materials or, in the alternative, failure to pay the
replacement value of said materials, as established by the library,
should they have been lost or destroyed shall result in the filing
of a complaint in the Municipal Court by the library and the imposition
of penalties as set forth hereinbelow.
B.Â
Notwithstanding anything contained in this chapter to the contrary,
where the person who has failed to return library materials is a minor,
any complaint filed in the Municipal Court against such minor shall
be dismissed, provided that the minor or the parents of said minor
return the library materials prior to the hearing date or pay for
the replacement value of the same, as established by the library,
if the materials are lost or destroyed.
A.Â
Any person or persons, including any corporation, found guilty of
violating any of the various sections of this chapter shall be fined
a sum not exceeding $100 in Municipal Court. The Court, in assessing
the appropriate fine against any person found guilty of violating
the provisions of this chapter, should consider whether such person
has either returned the material and/or paid the library for the same
if lost, damaged or destroyed. In the event that such person has failed
to return the material in question and/or paid the library for any
such lost, damaged or destroyed material, then the Court should consider
imposing the maximum penalty upon such person.
B.Â
In the event that the defendant is a minor, the penalty shall not
exceed the replacement value of the material as determined by the
library, and the complaint shall be dismissed against such minor if
the minor or the parents of the minor, in lieu of the payment of the
penalty, returns said material or reimburses the library for the full
value of any lost or destroyed material in lieu of the payment of
any fine established by this chapter. Where such material is returned
to the library or repayment is made to the library for the same, the
Court shall waive the imposition of court costs.
