[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Rahway 7-9-1984
by Ord. No. A-12-84 as Ch. 58 of the 1984 Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Includes tourist camps, tourist cabins, trailer camps, tourist homes,
rooming houses, lodging houses, boardinghouses, inns, motels or hotels, where
sleeping facilities are furnished for pay to tourists, transients or travelers,
whether or not meals are served to said persons.
Any person engaged in the business of maintaining accommodations, as defined in § 109-1, shall keep and maintain a bound register in which shall be inscribed the following information:
The proprietor or his agent shall report, in writing, the following
information to the Chief of Police:
A.
Within 54 hours of an original registration, the names
of all persons who have occupied any portion of the accommodations for a longer
period than 48 hours after registration.
B.
Immediately upon the expiration of a fifteen-day period,
the names of all persons who have registered and occupied any portion of the
accommodations upon three separate occasions within said fifteen-day period.
A.
It shall be the duty of any member of the Police Department
to inspect such places of accommodations from time to time at any hour of
the day or night in order to enforce the provisions of this chapter.
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed in any way to apply to any
duly licensed hotel or motel having more than 10 sleeping rooms for guests.
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction
thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $500 or by imprisonment for a
term not exceeding 90 days, or both.