HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd. No. 2008-1245
ORDINANCE NO. 1245
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
LAKE ELSINORE, CALIFORNIA, ADDING CHAPTER 5.58 TO
THE LAKE ELSINORE MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING
HOTELS AND MOTELS
WHEREAS, City law enforcement personnel have requested that the
City require hotel and motel guests to provide identification information upon
occupancy; and
WHEREAS, motels and hotels that require identification will protect the
public from fraudulent credit card use and theft. Requiring identification upon check-in
is a way that motels and hotels can ensure that a room was not booked with a stolen
credit card; and
WHEREAS, motel and hotel check-in identification protects the safety of
guests by ensuring that that only registered, paid guests are admitted to hotel rooms,
and prevents strangers or criminals from compromising the personal safety of those
staying in the hotel or motel; and
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to add Chapter 5.58 to the Lake
Elsinore Municipal Code.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKE
ELSINORE, CALIFORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That Chapter 5.58 is hereby added to the Lake Elsinore
Municipal Code as follows:
Chapter 5.58
Hotels and Motels
5.58.010.
Guest registration required; preservation; to be open for
inspection.
Every manager or person in control of any inn, motel, hotel, transient
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.
5.58.020.
Duty of manager, identification.
No manager or other person in control of any inn, motel, hotel, transient
apartment house, rooming house, lodging 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 5.58.010 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.
Said manager or person in control shall require identification of any guest, roomer or
lodger, at the time of registration, and in a valid and current format showing the person's
photograph, name and date of birth, and may be, but is not limited to, a driver's license,
state, federal or military issued picture identification card, or such other form as will
reasonably assure that the registrant is, in fact, the person under whose name such
lodging, room, or accommodation is, in fact, being procured
5.58.030.
Time of departure to be entered; alterations.
The manager or person in control of an inn, motel, hotel, transient
apartment house, rooming house, lodging house, auto court or trailer park in the City,
shall, at all time of the departure of each guest, if such time is known, enter upon the
register required by Section 5.58.010 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.
5.58.040.
Registration of guest vehicles.
Every manager or person in control of any inn, motel, hotel, transient
apartment house, rooming house, lodging house, auto court or trailer park in the City
shall, in addition to other requirements of this Chapter, 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.
5.58.050.
Report of renting room to minor.
Any person, whether the owner, employee, agent or manager of any inn,
motel, hotel, transient apartment house, rooming house, lodging house, auto court or
trailer park 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.
SECTION 2. If any provision, clause, sentence or paragraph of this
Ordinance or the application thereof to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid,
such invalidity shall not affect the other provisions of this Ordinance and are hereby
declared to be severable.
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SECTION 3. This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after the
date of its final passage. The City Clerk shall certify as to adoption of this Ordinance
and cause this Ordinance to be published and posted in the manner required by law.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City
Council of the City of Lake Elsinore, California, on this 12th day of Febru.9ry 2008.
ATTEST:
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VIVIAN M. MUNSON
CITY CLERK
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE )ss.
CITY OF LAKE ELSINORE )
I, VIVIAN M. MUNSON, City Clerk of the City of Lake Elsinore, California, hereby
certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1245 was introduced at a regular
meeting of the City Council of the City of Lake Elsinore on the 22nd day of January
2008, 'and was finally passed at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Lake
Elsinore held on the 12th day of February 2008, by the following roll call vote:
AYES:
MAYOR PRO TEM KELLEY, COUNCILMEMBER BUCKLEY, COUNCILMEMBER MAGEE,
COUNCILMEMBER SCHIFFNER
NOES:
NONE
ABSENT:
MAYOR HICKMAN
ABSTAIN:
NONE
C L L;6-
VIVIAN M. MUNSON
CITY CLERK
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