Chapter 7.22 — HOTEL REGISTERS

Every person in control of any hotel, motel, inn, apartment house, rooming house or lodging house in the city shall keep at all times a register for the registration of guests, which said register shall be kept in either a substantially bound book, compilation of registration cards, or electronic format; and which register shall be preserved for a minimum period of three years after the date of its most recent entry; and every such register shall, at all times, be subject to inspection by police officers or other members of the Police Department, code enforcement officers, city audit staff members, and any other city officer or employee for law enforcement or other official city business purposes. (Ord. 1428 § 2 (part); December 22, 1959: Ord. 5831 § 9; October 15, 2002.)

No person in control of any hotel, motel, inn, apartment house, rooming house or lodging house, or the letting of any suite, room or bed to any person or persons in such facility in the city shall let or assign any suite, room or bed in any such facility to any person until after such person shall have registered his name and address in the register herein provided to be kept, and thereafter such register shall be 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 or assigned to such guest; and such person in control of such hotel, motel, inn, apartment house, rooming house or lodging house, or the letting of any suite, room or bed therein shall at the time of the departure of each guest, endorse upon such register the date of such departure, nor shall any person erase, alter, delete or remove any name, address or other required information written in such register. (Ord. 1428 § 2 (part); December 22, 1959: Ord. 5831 § 10; October 15, 2002.)