The Library established under the provision of this subchapter shall be forever free to the use of the inhabitants of the city, subject always to such reasonable regulations as the Library Board may adopt, and the Board may exclude from the use of the Library anyone who shall willfully violate or refuse to comply with the rules and regulations established for the government thereof. The Library Board shall have the power to fix and impose general rules, penalties and forfeitures for trespasses upon or injury to the library grounds, rooms, books or other property, or for failure to return any library item, or for violation of any bylaw or regulation, and the penalties imposed or accruing by any bylaw or regulation of the Library Board may be recovered in a civil action. Such action to be instituted in the name of the Library Board of the city. Money collected in such actions shall be forthwith placed in the treasury of the city to the credit of the Public Library Fund.
(Prior Code, § 32.071)