Arcadia Municipal Code Div. 1 Hotels and Lodges

No person licensed to conduct any lodging house or hotel nor any person in actual charge, management or control of any lodging house or hotel shall suffer or permit any portion thereof to be used as a house of ill fame or place of assignation for the purpose of prostitution, fornication or lewdness, nor suffer or permit any lascivious cohabitation, adultery, fornication or other immoral practice to be carried on therein, nor suffer any person to make engagements for immoral purposes therefrom, nor suffer or permit any lewd, immoral or degenerate person to occupy any portion thereof, nor direct persons thereto or elsewhere for immoral purposes.

It shall be lawful and competent for the City to introduce, in the trial of any person charged with violation of this Part, testimony as to the general character and reputation of said place or of persons who occupy rooms in or frequent said place.

Every person conducting any lodging house or hotel shall at all times keep and maintain therein a hotel register, in which shall be inscribed with ink or indelible pencil, the name and home street and town address of each and every guest or person renting or occupying a room or rooms therein.

Such register shall be signed by the person renting or occupying a room or rooms, and the proprietor of such lodging house or hotel or his or her agents shall thereupon write opposite such name or names so registered the number of each room assigned to or occupied by each such guest, together with the time when such room is rented; and until all of the aforesaid entries shall have been made in such register, no such guest shall be suffered or permitted to occupy privately any room in such house.

When the occupant or occupants of each room so rented shall quit and surrender the same, it shall be the further duty of the proprietor of such hotel or his or her agent to enter the time thereof in such register opposite the name of such occupant or occupants.

No person shall make erasures or alterations on the register for any purpose. No person shall erase a name or names or address or addresses or permit such an erasure.

Such register shall be kept in a conspicuous place, and shall be at all times open to the inspection of any guest of such house or hotel and of any executive or police officer of the City.

No person shall write or cause to be written, or knowingly permit to be written in any register in any lodging house or hotel any other or different name or designation than the true name of the person registering therein, or the name by which such person is generally known.

Except as herein provided, no person shall let for sleeping or lodging purposes any room in any lodging house or hotel more than once between the hours of six o'clock in the evening and six o'clock in the morning of the next day, except to bona fide travelers with baggage.

All persons renting or assigning rooms shall report to the police any suspicious character or characters who may apply for rooms or occupy rooms, and shall report any suspicious acts of any person applying for or occupying rooms. No person renting or assigning rooms shall fail to report to the police any suspicious acts of any person applying for or occupying rooms.

(Amended by Ord. 1975 adopted 8-4-92).

For the purpose of this Part "hotel" shall mean and include motel, motor hotel, motor lodge, apartment motel or any similar place customarily renting or subletting living or sleeping quarters on a day to day basis or at rates less than weekly rates. (Amended by Ord. 1975 adopted 8-4-92).

(Sections 4231.11 and 4231.12 renumbered to be 4231.9 and 4231.10 by Ord. 1975 adopted 8-4-92).