South El Monte Municipal Code Ch. 9.32 Public Lodging Regulations

Every person conducting any motel, lodging house, trailer court or hotel in the city shall at all times keep and maintain therein a register, in which shall be inscribed with ink or indelible pencil, the name and home street address of each and every guest or person renting or occupying a room therein. The register shall be signed by the person renting or occupying a room, and the proprietor of the motel, lodging house, trailer court 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 such entries have been made in the register, no such agent shall be suffered or permitted to occupy privately any room in such house. When the occupants of each room so rented quit and surrender the room, it shall be the further duty of the proprietor or his or her agent to enter the time thereof in the register opposite the name of such occupants.

(Prior code §5-28-1; Ord. 704 §1, 1984)

Erasures or alterations on the register required by Section 9.32.010 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. The register shall be at all times open to the inspection of the code enforcement officer and/or the sheriff's license deputy.

(Prior code §5-28-2; Ord. 704 §1, 1984)

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 the person is generally known.

(Prior code §5-28-3; Ord. 704 §1, 1984)

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 §5-28-4; Ord. 704 §1, 1984)

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 §5-28-5; Ord. 704 §1, 1984)