Note: Prior ordinance history: Ord. 6.
Whenever any of the following words defined in this section are used in this chapter, it includes, but is not limited to, those enumerated:
"Establishment"
includes a hotel, motel, bed and breakfast inn, boardinghouse or other facility where sleeping accommodations are made available to the public on a daily or weekly basis;
"Guest"
includes patron or lodger.
"Proprietor"
includes the owner, manager, operator, desk clerk or other employee whose duty it is to register patrons of the establishment.
(Ord. 366 § 1 Exh. D, 2007)
The register must contain the following information for each guest:
A. 
Name and address;
B. 
Day, month and year when registered;
C. 
Number of rooms occupied;
D. 
Number of persons occupying the room(s); and
E. 
The year, make and model of the vehicle as well as the license number and the state issuing said license for the vehicle that the registered person arrived in.
(Ord. 366 § 1 Exh. D, 2007)
A. 
The proprietor of every establishment must keep a register of all guests.
B. 
Before renting, furnishing or otherwise making available any room or accommodation to any guest, the proprietor of the establishment must require the guest to sign the register.
C. 
The register is a permanent record which must be kept on the premises of the establishment for two full calendar years next following the close of the establishment's fiscal year.
D. 
The register must be available to any peace officer, as defined in Penal Code Section 817, for inspection in the normal course of his or her duties.
E. 
The proprietor of any establishment who willfully refuses or omits to keep a register or who willfully refuses or omits to permit a peace officer to inspect, examine or make copies of a register shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Every violation of any provision of this chapter shall be construed as a separate offense for each day or part of a day during which such violation continues.
(Ord. 366 § 1 Exh. D, 2007)