Chapter 5.84
HOTELS AND MOTELS

Sections:

5.84.010    Guest registration required – Preservation – To be open for inspection.

5.84.020    Duty of manager – Identification.

5.84.030    Time of departure to be entered – Alterations.

5.84.040    Registration of guest vehicles.

5.84.050    Report of renting room to minor.

5.84.010 Guest registration required – Preservation – To be open for inspection.

Every manager or person in control of any inn, motel, hotel, transient apartment house, rooming house, lodging house, auto court or trailer park in the City shall keep at all times a register for the registration of transient guests. Such registration of guests shall be preserved for at least three years, and every such register shall at all times be subject to inspection by every law enforcement officer of the City. [Ord. 1245 § 1, 2008. Code 1987 § 5.58.010].

5.84.020 Duty of manager – Identification.

No manager or other person in control of any inn, motel, hotel, transient apartment house, rooming house, lodging house, auto court or trailer park in the City shall let or assign for temporary or transient occupancy any suite, room or bed in any such inn, hotel, apartment house, rooming house, lodging house, auto court or trailer park to any person until such person shall have registered his name and address in the register provided for in LEMC 5.84.010 to be kept, and until such register shall have been made to show correctly the year, month, day and hour of the arrival of such person thereat, and the number of the suite or room let and assigned to such guest. Said manager or person in control shall require identification of any guest, roomer or lodger, at the time of registration, and in a valid and current format showing the person’s photograph, name and date of birth, and may be, but is not limited to, a driver’s license, State, Federal or military issued picture identification card, or such other form as will reasonably assure that the registrant is, in fact, the person under whose name such lodging, room, or accommodation is, in fact, being procured. [Ord. 1245 § 1, 2008. Code 1987 § 5.58.020].

5.84.030 Time of departure to be entered – Alterations.

The manager or person in control of an inn, motel, hotel, transient apartment house, rooming house, lodging house, auto court or trailer park in the City shall, at all time of the departure of each guest, if such time is known, enter upon the register required by LEMC 5.84.010 the date and time of departure, or, if the exact time of departure is not known, the date and time that the fact of departure of each guest is ascertained, and shall not erase or alter, or suffer or permit to be erased or altered, any of these entries in the register. [Ord. 1245 § 1, 2008. Code 1987 § 5.58.030].

5.84.040 Registration of guest vehicles.

Every manager or person in control of any inn, motel, hotel, transient apartment house, rooming house, lodging house, auto court or trailer park in the City shall, in addition to other requirements of this chapter, enter the make, type, license number and name of issuing State of any motor vehicle or vehicles in the immediate possession of each guest or guests, if such there be, in the register herein provided to be kept. [Ord. 1245 § 1, 2008. Code 1987 § 5.58.040].

5.84.050 Report of renting room to minor.

Any person, whether the owner, employee, agent or manager of any inn, motel, hotel, transient apartment house, rooming house, lodging house, auto court or trailer park in the City, who rents or lets any room or rooms or any trailer or trailers to be used on the premises and not removed therefrom or allows any such room or rooms or trailer or trailers to be occupied by any minor of less than 18 years of age, unless such minor is accompanied by his or her parent, parents or legal guardian, shall immediately by telephone and within 24 hours by written and signed report notify the police department of such occurrence. [Ord. 1245 § 1, 2008. Code 1987 § 5.58.050].