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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE
  

In re:

The Matter of Petty Offenses Committed
on the Premises of the Wilmington
Veterans Administration Center 		)
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ORDER
   
            The Court having considered the recommendations of the United States Magistrate Judge
Mary Pat Thynge, it is 
            ORDERED this         20th         day of                           December                               2007, Pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure58(d) and the Local Rules of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, that this Court's schedule of monetary collateral for petty offenses committed on the premises of the Wilmington Veterans Administration Center, adopted on May 19, 1983, and which was most recently amended on September 7, 1988, be amended as follows: 
            The offense for which collateral may be posted in lieu of appearance by the person charged with said offense, and the amount of collateral required to be posted for each offense are contained below:
A.         Petty offenses committed on the premises of the Wilmington Veterans Administration Center.
            Offenses committed on the premises of the Wilmington Veterans Administration Center for which collateral may be posted in lieu of appearance by the person charged, and the amount of collateral therefore, shall be as follows:
  
Exhibit A
  

Violation

Collateral

(1) Improper disposal of rubbish on property.
   		$200.00
(2) Spitting on property.
   		$25.00
(3) Throwing of articles from a building or the unauthorized climbing upon any part of a building.
   		$50.00
(4) Willful destruction, damage, or removal of Government property without authorization.
   		$500.00
(5) Defacement, destruction, mutilation or injury to, or removal, or disturbance of, gravemarker or headstone.
   		$500.00
(6) Failure to comply with signs of a directive and restrictive nature 
posted for safety purposes. 
   		$50.00
(7) Tampering with removal, marring, or destruction of posted signs. 
   		$150.00
(8) Entry into areas posted as closed to the public or others (trespass).
   		$50.00
(9) Unauthorized demonstration or service in a national cemetery or 
on other VA property.
   		$250.00
(10) Creating a disturbance during a burial ceremony.
   		$250.00
(11) Disorderly conduct which creates loud, boisterous, and unusual noise, or which obstructs the normal use of entrances, exits, foyers, offices, corridors, elevators, and stairways or which tends to impede or prevent the normal operation of a service or operation of the facility. 
   		$250.00
(12) Failure to depart premises by unauthorized persons.
   		$50.00
(13) Unauthorized loitering, sleeping or assembly on property. 
   		$50.00
(14) Gambling-participating in games of chance for monetary gain or personal property; the operation of gambling devices, a pool or lottery; or the taking or giving of bets.
   		$200.00
(15) Operation of a vehicle under the influence of alcoholic beverages or nonprescribed narcotic drugs, hallucinogens, marijuana, barbiturates, or amphetamines.
   		$500.00
(16) Entering premises under the influence of alcoholic beverages or narcotic drugs, hallucinogens, marijuana, barbiturates or amphetamines.
   		$200.00
(17) Unauthorized use on property of alcoholic beverages or narcotic drugs, hallucinogens, marijuana, barbiturates, or amphetamines.
   		$300.00
(18) Unauthorized introduction on VA controlled property of alcoholic beverages or narcotic drugs, hallucinogens, marijuana, barbiturates, or amphetamines or the unauthorized giving of same to a patient or beneficiary.
   		$500.00
(19) Unauthorized solicitation of alms and contributions on premises.
   		$50.00
(20) Commercial soliciting or vending, or the collection of private debts on property.
   		$50.00
(21) Distribution of pamphlets, handbills, and flyers.
   		$25.00
(22) Display of placards or posting of material on property.
   		$25.00
(23) Unauthorized photography on premises.
   		$50.00
(24) Failure to comply with traffic directions of VA police.
   		$25.00
(25) Parking in spaces posted as reserved for physically disabled persons.
   		$50.00
(26) Parking in no-parking areas, lanes, or crosswalks so posted or marked by yellow borders or yellow stripes.
   		$25.00
(27) Parking in emergency vehicle spaces, areas and lanes bordered in red or posted as EMERGENCY VEHICLES ONLY or FIRE LANE, or parking within 15 feet of a fire hydrant.
   		$50.00
(28) Parking within an intersection or blocking a posted vehicle entrance or posted exit lane.
   		$25.00
(29) Parking in spaces posted as reserved or in excess of a posted time limit.
   		$15.00
(30) Failing to come to a complete stop at a STOP sign.
   		$25.00
(31) Failing to yield to a pedestrian in a marked and posted crosswalk.
   		$25.00
(32) Driving in the wrong direction on a posted one-way street.
   		$25.00
(33) Operation of a vehicle in a reckless or unsafe manner, too fast for conditions, drag racing, overriding curbs, or leaving the roadway.
   		$100.00
(34) Exceeding posted speed limits:
  
(i) By up to 10 mph.
   		$25.00
(ii) By up to 20 mph.
   		$50.00
(iii) By over 20 mph.
   		$100.00
(35) Creating excessive noise in a hospital or cemetery zone by muffler cut out, excessive use of a horn, or other means.
   		$50.00
(36) Failure to yield right of way to other vehicles.
   		$50.00
(37) Possession of firearms, carried either openly or concealed, whether loaded or unloaded (except by Federal or State law enforcement officers on official business.
   		$500.00
(38) Introduction or possession of explosives, or explosive devices which fire a projectile, ammunition or combustibles.
   		$500.00
(39) Possession of knives which exceed a blade length of 3 inches; switchblade knives; any of the variety of hatchets, clubs and hand-held weapons; or brass knuckles.
   		$300.00
(40) The unauthorized possession of any of the variety of incapacitating liquid or gas-emitting weapons.
   		$200.00
(41) Unauthorized possession, manufacture, or use of keys or barrier card-type keys to rooms or areas on the property.
   		$200.00
(42) The surreptitious opening, or attempted opening, of locks or card-operated barrier mechanisms on property.
   		$500.00
(43) Soliciting for, or the act of, prostitution.
   		$250.00
(44) Any unlawful sexual activity.
   		$250.00
(45) Jogging, bicycling, sledding or any recreational physical activity conducted on cemetery grounds. $50.00
  
  
Dated:   Dec.  20, 2007                Gregory M. Sleet          
                   Chief Judge
  
              Joseph J. Farnan, Jr.      
                        Judge

                  Sue L. Robinson        
                        Judge

                                                   
                        Judge


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