El Monte Municipal Code Ch. 5.48 Hotel and Motel Regulations

No person conducting any hotel or motel, as defined in Chapter 17.150 of this code, or other lodging house, trailer court or hotel in the city, and no person in actual charge, management or control of any motel, lodging house, trailer court, or hotel therein, 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.

(Prior code § 4222; amended during 1999 recodification; Ord. No. 3023, § 4.C(Exh. C), 5-2-2023)

Every operator conducting any hotel, motel, motor hotel, lodging house or trailer court in the city shall maintain daily written records reflecting the renting, letting, or other provision of any of its rooms including, but not limited to, check-in and check-out dates of each person who rents, lets, or is otherwise provided a room. The operator shall obtain the name of all adult individuals occupying such room. Unless payment for the room is made by check or credit card, such records shall also include the name and home or business address and telephone number of each such person. The required records shall be maintained for no less than three (3) years, or for such longer period as may be prescribed by law, and shall be available for review by city representatives during normal business hours.

(Ord. 2644 § 1 (part), 2005)

Erasures or alterations on the register required by Section 5.48.020 shall not be permitted or made for any purpose, and it is unlawful to erase a name or names or address or addresses or to 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 motel and of any executive or police officer of the city.

(Prior code § 4222.2)

No person shall write or cause to be written, or knowingly permit to be written in any register in any motel, lodging house, trailer court, 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.

(Prior code § 4222.3)

No person shall let any room for sleeping or lodging purposes in any motel, lodging house, trailer court or hotel in the city more than once between six a.m. and five fifty-nine p.m. and no more than once between six p.m. and five fifty-nine a.m. of the following morning.

(Prior code § 4222.4)

No person conducting any motel or other public lodging or agent thereof shall let any room for hourly or other short-time rates or in any way advertise that any room is available at hourly or other short-time rates.

(Prior code § 4222.5)

In addition to any other remedies, actions or penalties as authorized by applicable law in connection with a violation of the provisions of Sections 5.48.010 through 5.48.060, inclusive by any person operating a motel, lodging house, trailer court, or hotel in the city, the owner/operator of such motel or other place of transient accommodations shall also be subject to proceedings for the modification or revocation of his/her motel regulatory permit as issued under Section 5.96.050.

(Prior code § 4222.6)

Editor's note— Former Section 5.48.080 (limitation on continuous and cumulative occupancy of hotels, motels, and motor hotels, or trailer court) restricting and regulating the duration of occupancy for hotels, motels, motor hotels, lodging houses and trailer courts has been repealed by City Council ordinance (Ordinance No. 2745, § 1, adopted June 2, 2009). Nothing in this repeal shall be interpreted to limit the authority of the city, including but not limited to the, El Monte Permit Committee, to impose any operating requirements, conditions or restrictions authorized under Title 5 (Business Licenses and Regulations) of the El Monte Municipal Code or any other applicable provision of the El Monte Municipal Code.

Except as otherwise provided by law, each hotel, motel, motor hotel, lodging house or trailer court shall post a legible copy of the text of Section 5.48.080 of this chapter in an open and conspicuous place within the public lobby area, and in an open and conspicuous place where other postings are required by law, in each room available for rent.

(Ord. 2644 § 1 (part), 2005)

Any property left in a room by a person or party that has checked out shall be removed by the operator of the hotel, motel, or motor hotel and shall be stored or otherwise disposed of in accordance with applicable laws.

(Ord. 2644 § 1 (part), 2005)