[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR702.3]

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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
                    CHAPTER VII--LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
 
PART 702--CONDUCT ON LIBRARY PREMISES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 702.3  Conduct on Library premises.

    (a) All persons using the premises shall conduct themselves in such 
manner as not to affect detrimentally the peace, tranquility, and good 
order of the Library. Such persons shall:
    (1) Use areas that are open to them only at the times those areas 
are open to them and only for the purposes for which those areas are 
intended;
    (2) Comply with any lawful order of the police or of other 
authorized individuals; and
    (3) Comply with official signs of a restrictive or directory nature.
    (b) All persons using the premises shall refrain from:
    (1) Creating any hazard to persons or property, such as by fighting 
or by throwing or deliberately dropping any breakable article, such as 
glass, pottery, or any sharp article, or stones or other missiles;
    (2) Using Library facilities for living accommodation purposes, such 
as unauthorized bathing, sleeping, or storage of personal belongings, 
regardless of the specific intent of the individual;
    (3) Engaging in inordinately loud or noisy activities;
    (4) Disposing of rubbish other than in receptacles provided for that 
purpose;
    (5) Throwing articles of any kind from or at a Library building or 
appurtenance;
    (6) Committing any obscene or indecent act such as prurient prying, 
indecent exposure, and soliciting for illegal purposes;
    (7) Removing, defacing, damaging, or in any other way so misusing a 
statue, seat, wall, fountain, or other architectural feature or any 
tree, shrub, plant, or turf;
    (8) Stepping upon or climbing upon any statue, fountain, or other 
ornamental architectural feature or any tree, shrub, or plant;
    (9) Bathing or swimming in any fountain;
    (10) Painting, marking or writing on, or posting or otherwise 
affixing any handbill or sign upon any part of a Library building or 
appurtenance, except on bulletin boards installed for that purpose and 
with the appropriate authorization;
    (11) Bringing any animal onto Library buildings and turf other than 
dogs trained to assist hearing or visually impaired persons;
    (12) Threatening the physical well-being of an individual; and
    (13) Unreasonably obstructing reading rooms, food service 
facilities, entrances, foyers, lobbies, corridors, offices, elevators, 
stairways, or parking lots in such manner as to impede or disrupt the 
performance of official duties by the Library staff or to prevent 
Library patrons from using or viewing the collections.
    (c) Public reading rooms, research facilities, and catalog rooms are 
designated as nonpublic forums. As such, they shall be used only for 
quiet scholarly research or educational purposes requiring use of 
Library materials. All persons using these areas shall comply with the 
rules in effect in the various public reading rooms, shall avoid 
disturbing other readers, and shall refrain from, but not limited to,
    (1) Eating, drinking, or smoking in areas where these activities are 
expressly prohibited;
    (2) Using loud language or making disruptive noises;
    (3) Using any musical instrument or device, loudspeaker, sound 
amplifier, or other similar machine or device for the production or 
reproduction of

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sound, except for devices to assist hearing or visually impaired 
persons, without authorization;
    (4) Interfering by offensive personal hygiene with the use of the 
area by other persons;
    (5) Spitting, defecating, urinating, or similar disruptive 
activities;
    (6) Intentionally abusing the furniture or furnishings in the area;
    (7) Intentionally damaging any item from the collections of the 
Library of Congress or any item of Library property;
    (8) Using computing terminals for purposes other than searching or 
training persons to search the Library's data bases or those under 
contract to the Library, or misusing the terminals by intentional 
improper or obstructive searching; and
    (9) Using the Library's photocopy machines for purposes other than 
copying Library materials whenever other persons are waiting in line.

[52 FR 672, Jan. 8, 1987]