Oceanside Municipal Code Art. V Registration of Guests

Every manager or person in control of any inn, hotel, 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 (3) years, and every such register shall at all times be subject to inspection by every law enforcement officer of the city.

(Ord. Code, § 2421)

No manager or other person in control of any inn, hotel, apartment house, rooming 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 section 7.22 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.

(Ord. Code, § 2422)

The manager or person in control of an inn, hotel, apartment house, rooming house, lodging house, auto court or trailer park, shall, at all time of the departure of each guest, if such time is known, enter upon the register required by section 7.22 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. Code, § 2423)

Every manager or person in control of any auto court or trailer park in the city shall, in addition to other requirements of this article, 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. Code, § 2424)

Any person, whether the owner, employee, agent or manager of any hotel, motor court or trailer court 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 eighteen (18) years of age, unless such minor is accompanied by his or her parent, parents or legal guardian, shall immediately by telephone and within twenty-four (24) hours by written and signed report notify the police department of such occurrence.

(Ord. No. 65-1, § 1)