All people shall have free use of the Law Library. The Law Library maintains an annual subscription plan for those residents of King County and entities located in King County, who wish to borrow books from the Library, who agree to be bound by the following rules and conditions, and who qualify for one of the categories described below.

1. Those who may borrow books are:

a. Attorney Subscriber: to qualify for this category, the sole practitioner, law firm, legal partnership or corporation must:
• Have an office in King County
• File a proper application
• Pay the non-refundable annual subscription fee of $65.00 for each King County attorney employee of the business
• Follow all rules of the Library

b. Government Subscriber: to qualify for this category, the subscriber must:
• Be an employee of a city, county, state or federal government office located in King County, or a judge of a court located in King County. Government subscribers are not required to pay an annual subscription fee to borrow books needed for work purposes
• File a proper application
• Follow all rules of the Library

c. Resident Subscriber: to qualify for this category, the subscriber must be either:

i. An individual residing in King County who is not an attorney, or an agent or employee of an attorney borrowing books needed for work purposes must:
• File a proper application
• Pay the non-refundable annual subscription fee of $65.00
• Follow all rules of the Library, or

ii. An individual residing in King County who is not an attorney, or an agent or employee of an attorney borrowing books needed for work purposes, and wishes to become a subscriber for a limited term of 120 days must:
• File a proper application
• Pay the non-refundable subscription fee of $25.00
• Follow all rules of the Library. At the end of the 120 day period, borrowing privileges will be terminated unless the individual subscriber either pays the non-refundable subscription fee of $40.00 to extend their borrowing privileges until the end of the subscription year, or pays the non-refundable subscription fee of $25.00 to extend their borrowing privileges for an additional 120 days.

d. Exempted Organization: to qualify for this category, the subscriber must:
• i. Be a non-profit organization or governmental entity whose mission or service includes providing legal services to indigent persons, ii. be a member of the Alliance for Equal Justice or iii. the staff of a non-profit bar association with an office in King County. Exempted Organization subscribers are not required to pay an annual subscription fee to borrow books needed for work purposes, but must
• File a proper application
• Follow all rules of the Library

2. All items must be checked out in the name of the authorized end-user subscriber. The end-user subscriber must be identified. No subscriber may remove materials from the Library for the use of any person or entity not a subscriber. The subscription account holder is responsible for all fines and charges incurred.

3. Loan Period: Loan periods for different classes of items are posted at the circulation desk.

4. Fines and Charges: A fine of 50 cents per day shall be charged for each overdue item. The subscription account will be billed for all fines and charges as they are incurred. Subscribers who have not returned library materials that have been overdue for 30 days will incur a lost book fee equal to the replacement cost of the book. If a subscriber returns a lost item before payment of the replacement cost of the item, an overdue fee of $15.00 per item will be substituted for the lost book fee. If a subscriber returns a lost item within six months after payment of the replacement cost, the subscriber will receive a refund of the replacement fee amount paid less $15.00.

5. Suspension and Termination:
a. Subscription privileges cease when a subscriber no longer qualifies under Rule 1.
b. When the total amount of a subscriber’s unpaid fines and charges incurred under Rule 4 equals or exceeds $50.00, the subscription account privileges of that subscriber will be suspended. Suspended accounts may be reinstated upon receipt of payment for all outstanding fines and charges.
c. A subscriber who flagrantly or persistently violates the subscription rules shall have their subscriber privileges suspended or terminated by the Board of Law Library Trustees.

6. The subscription fee is an annual non-refundable fee. For new subscribers who open their annual account after September 1st, the annual non-refundable fee will be reduced for the remainder of that calendar year.

Revised 05/21/2008