As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
BUSINESS OF CONDUCTING A TOURIST LODGE OR MOTEL OR HOTEL
The renting, leasing, maintaining, keeping, operating, conducting
or providing of overnight or temporary sleeping or housing accommodations
for a consideration to tourists, transients or travelers in any building
or structure or group of buildings or structures devoted exclusively
or primarily to said business, commonly known as "tourist lodges,"
"motels," "tourist cabins," "motor lodges," "motor courts," "tourist
courts," "tourist camps" or "hotels," whether meals are served therein
or not.
HOUSING OR LODGING UNIT
Any room, cabin or quarters, whether or not physically attached
or connected with any other building or structure, used for sleeping
or housing accommodations in the business of conducting a tourist
lodge or motel or hotel.
No person shall engage in the business of conducting
a tourist lodge or motel or hotel without first having applied for
and obtained from the Borough a license therefor as hereinafter provided.
Each application shall be made in triplicate
and shall be signed and sworn to by the applicant and presented to
the Borough Clerk, together with a certified or bank check or cash
in the amount of the hereinafter prescribed license fee.
No such license shall be issued to any person
who has been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude nor shall
any such license be issued to any corporation in which any stockholder
holding 10% or more of any of the stock thereof or in which any director
or officer shall have been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude.
It shall be the duty of the members of the police
force of the Borough to inspect the licensed premises from time to
time, at any hour of the day or night, to determine that the provisions
of this chapter are being complied with.
No licensee shall employ in, on or about the
licensed premises any person convicted of a crime involving moral
turpitude within a period of five years from the date of such conviction.
[Amended 11-24-1992 by Ord. No. 92-23; 3-14-2006 by Ord. No. 06-2]
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be subject to the penalties provided by §
1-15 of this Code. A separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.