Every person in control of any hotel, motel, inn, 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 kept in either a substantially bound book, compilation of registration cards, or electronic format; and which register shall be preserved for a minimum period of three years after the date of its most recent entry; and every such register shall, at all times, be subject to inspection by police officers or other members of the Police Department, code enforcement officers, city audit staff members, and any other city officer or employee for law enforcement or other official city business purposes. (Ord. 1428 § 2 (part); December 22, 1959: Ord. 5831 § 9; October 15, 2002.)