Fullerton Municipal Code Ch. 7.64 Hotel Registers

Every person in control of any inn, hotel, 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 a substantially bound book not less than nine inches in length and not less than seven inches in width, with pages thereof lined for the registration of guests; and which book of registration of guests shall be preserved for at least one year after it is filled with registrations or after the discontinuance of its use as a register; and every such register shall be kept open during use and shall, at all times, be subject to inspection by police officers or other members of the Police Department.

(Ord. 1142, passed - -1961)

No person in control of any hotel, inn, apartment house, rooming house or lodging house, or the letting of any suite, room or bed in any thereof to any person or persons in the city shall let or assign any suite, room or bed in any thereof to any person until after such person shall have registered his or her 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 inn, hotel, apartment house, rooming house or lodging house, or the letting of any suite, room or bed in any thereof shall, at the time of the departure of each guest, endorse upon such register the date of such departure, nor shall any person erase or alter any name or address written in such register.

(Ord. 1142, passed - -1961)