(A) It is unlawful for the keeper of any hotel, boarding house, lodging house or rooming house to fail to keep a register in which the keeper shall require each guest to write his or her name and place of residence before occupying any sleeping or other room. The keeper shall be required to enter on the register opposite the name of guest, the number, letter or other designation of the room assigned to the guest. The register shall be open to public inspection at all times until one year after the register shall have been filed. The register shall be a permanently bound blank book sufficient in size to contain all the information herein provided to be placed in the same. It is unlawful for any person, being the owner, proprietor, clerk or any other person having regular or temporary charge of any hotel, boarding house, lodging house or rooming house, to violate any provisions of this section.
(B) A violation of this section is considered a petty offense with each day such activity continues being considered a new offense. For petty offense penalties, see § 130.99.
(1974 Code, § 10-1-27) (Ord. 13-004, passed 10-8-2013) Penalty, see § 130.99