I. Access to the County Law Library outside of normal business hours may be granted to judges who reside in California and to attorneys who are:

A. Active members of the California State Bar

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Who reside in this county; Who maintain an office in this county; Who are in trial here; or Whose offices and homes are more distant from a facility of their own county law library than from ours.

B. Members of an out-of-state bar granted leave to appear as counsel pro hac vice.

The following additional persons may qualify for after-hours access privileges by appying to the Board of Law Library Trustees:

C. Inactive members of the California State Bar who reside in this county;

D. Litigants appearing in propria persona who reside in this county, who require the use of materials not readily available elsewhere, and who are unable to use the law library during regular business hours;

E. Law school students, paralegal program students, and law school graduates who reside in this county, who require materials not readily available elsewhere for a particular class or project, and who are unable to use the law library during regular business hours;

F. Research assistants who reside in this county, who are employed by attorneys, public agencies or legal departments of businesses, who are unable to use the law library during regular business hours.

II. Cardkeys may be purchased from the Law Librarian. Renewal notices for active State Bar members are mailed in December. (Refer to attached fee schedule.)

A. Cardkeys issued to active members of the State Bar automatically expire on the second Monday in February. Cardkeys renewed after that date are subject to a reinstatement charge.

III. The person to whom a cardkey is issued is:

A. Not permitted to admit anyone to the building or Law Library but him/herself without prior approval from the Law Librarian or the Board. Handicap users who may require special assistance are excluded from this provision.

B. Not permitted to lend the cardkey to anyone.

Anyone in the Law Library after regular business hours is required to show the cardkey upon request.

IV. Violation of any of the conditions in Section III will be cause for immediate suspension of after-hours access privileges, pending a final decision by the Board of Law Library Trustees at its next regularly scheduled meeting. The Board of Law Library Trustees may impose other sanctions at its discretion.

The Board may suspend cardkey privileges of users who flagrantly abuse library policies or who have past-due accounts.

V. Any person aggrieved or any person adversely affected by any of these policies or by any determination of the Law Librarian may appeal to the Board of Law Library Trustees.