(A) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
HOUSE.
Hotels, rooming and lodging houses.
PERSON.
Natural persons, co-partnerships, corporations and associations, and shall include persons of both sexes.
(B) The City Health Officer shall examine into and investigate the character and qualifications of applicants for licenses within the meaning of this section and report to the Mayor his or her recommendation as to whether or not a license shall be issued to such applicant.
(C) Any license issued hereunder may be revoked by the Mayor for any violation of this section.
(D) No license shall be issued to any person to conduct a hotel, rooming house, or lodging house within the city unless such person is of ascertained good moral character; and when application for such license is made the applicant shall present himself or herself in person to the City Health Officer and at such time present to said officer satisfactory proof of good moral character. When application for a license is made by or on behalf of a co-partnership, corporation or association, such application shall be made by the manager, officer, agent, or other persons who will have the charge and management of such hotel, rooming house, or lodging house.
(E) No license as in this section provided shall be transferred or assigned.
(F) No person to whom a license shall be issued, as provided in this section shall suffer or permit the hotel, rooming house, or lodging house to which license relates to be used as a house of ill-fame, brothel, bawdy house, or disorderly house, for the purpose of prostitution, fornication, or lewdness.
(G) Every person to whom a license shall have been issued to conduct a hotel, rooming or lodging house shall at all times keep a standard hotel register in which shall be inscribed the names and home address of all guests or persons renting or occupying rooms in such house, which register shall be signed by the person renting a room or rooms, or by some one under his or her direction. Such registration must be made, and after the name or names so inscribed or registered, the manager of the of the house, or his or her agent, shall write the number of the room or rooms which each guest or person is to occupy, together with the time when such room is rented. All of which shall be done before such person is permitted to occupy such room or rooms. Such registers shall be at all times upon to inspection by any guest of the house wherein such register is kept and to any officer of the city or the state.
(H) It shall be unlawful for any person to write or cause to be written in any hotel register any other or different name or address than the true name or address of such person or the name by which such person is generally known.
(I) No one room shall be assigned to two persons of the opposite sex except in the case of children accompanied by parent or guardian, unless such persons shall be registered as husband and wife.
(J) Where a license shall have been issued to any co-partnership, corporation, or association to conduct a hotel, rooming house, or lodging house, any person having charge, management, or control of such hotel, rooming house, or lodging house shall be liable to prosecution for any violation of this section.
(Ord. 1612, passed 5-6-2003) Penalty, see § 114.99