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If you really want to know your legal autority over this situation, you can construct through several rules.
Rule 4
SECTION 34 PLAYERS/BENCH PERSONNEL/SUBSTITUTES/TEAM MEMBERS
ART. 2 . . . Bench personnel are all individuals who are part of or affiliated with a team, including, but not limited to: substitutes, coaches, manager(s) and statistician(s).
So the assistant is officially bench personnel, and you can govern his actions according to the rule book.
Rule 10 Fouls and Penalties
SECTION 5 COACHES' RULE
ART. 2 . . . The head coach and assistant coach(es) must remain seated on the bench at all times while the clock is running or is stopped except to:
a. Confer with bench personnel and players within the confines of the bench area during a charged time-out or the intermission between quarters and extra periods.
b. Attend an injured player when beckoned onto the court by an official.
c. Rise in front of their seat to spontaneously react to an outstanding play by a member of their team or to acknowledge a replaced player(s), but must immediately return to their seat. (See 1-13 coaching box)
The only exception to this is the coaching box rule that is implemented in most states. If your state has the box, the head coach may use it (which wouldn't get him near the table) and assistants must remain on the bench.
Penalty is a technical to the coach violating the rule and an indirect to the head coach (if he is not the violator).
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