[Ord. #462, § 2; 1958 Code § 18.1]
Every person conducting any lodging house or hotel in the City
shall at all times keep and maintain therein a hotel register, in
which shall be inscribed with ink or indelible pencil the name and
home street and town address of each and every guest or person renting
or occupying a room therein. Such register shall be signed by the
person renting or occupying a room and the proprietor of such lodging
house or hotel shall thereupon write opposite such name so registered
the number of the room assigned to or occupied by the guest, together
with the time when such room is rented. Until all of the aforesaid
entries shall have been made in such register, no guest shall be suffered
or permitted to occupy privately any room in such house or hotel.
When the occupant of a room so rented shall quit and surrender the
same, it shall be the further duty of the proprietor of such house
or hotel to enter the time thereof in such register, opposite the
name of such occupant.
[1]
Editor's Note: As to record of guests at tourist camps, see
subsection 5-9.6 of this chapter.
[Ord. 462, § 3; 1958 Code § 18.2]
It shall be unlawful for any person to write or cause to be
written, or to knowingly permit to be written in any register in any
lodging house or hotel in the City, any other or different name or
designation than the true name of the person registering therein,
or the name by which such person is generally known.
[Ord. #462, § 2; 1958 Code § 18.3]
Erasures or alterations on the register required by this section
shall not be permitted or made for any purpose, and it shall be unlawful
to erase a name or address or to permit such an erasure.
[Ord. #462, § 2; 1958 Code § 18.4]
The register required by this section shall be kept in a conspicuous
place and shall be at all times open to the inspection of any guest
of the lodging house or hotel and of any executive or police officer
of the City.
[Ord. 462, § 1; 1958 Code § 18.5]
It shall be unlawful for any person licensed to conduct any
lodging house or hotel in the City or any person in actual charge,
management or control of any lodging house or hotel, to suffer or
permit any portion thereof to be used as a house of ill fame or place
of assignation for the purpose of prostitution, fornication or lewdness,
or to suffer or permit any lascivious cohabitation, adultery, fornication
or other immoral practice to be carried on therein, or to suffer any
person to make engagements for immoral purposes therefrom, or to suffer
or permit any lewd, immoral or degenerate person to occupy any portion
thereof, or to direct persons thereto or elsewhere for immoral purposes.
It shall be lawful and competent for the City to introduce in the
trial of any person charged with a violation of this section, testimony
as to the general character and reputation of the place or of persons
who occupy rooms in or frequent such place.
[1]
Editor's Note: For State law as to houses of ill fame, see
Pen. C., §315.
[Ord. #462, § 2; 1958 Code § 18.6]
It shall be unlawful for any person to let for sleeping or lodging
purposes any room in any lodging house or hotel in the City more than
once between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., except to bona
fide travelers with baggage.
[Ord. #462, § 4; 1958 Code § 18.8]
All persons renting or assigning rooms at lodging houses and
hotels shall report to the police any suspicious character who may
apply for a room, and shall report any suspicious acts of any person
applying for or occupying a room.
