HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 2235 ORDINANCE NO. 2235
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF AZUSA ADDING CHAPTER 8 . 62 TO THE
AZUSA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO REGULA-
TION OF PUBLIC LODGINGS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1 . Chapter 8 . 62 is hereby added to the
Azusa Municipal Code to read as follows:
Chapter 8 . 62 PUBLIC LODGINGS
8 . 62 . 010 Findings and Definitions
8 . 62 . 020 Immoral Acts Prohibited
8 . 62 . 030 Registration Required
8 . 62 . 040 Inspection of Register, Alterations
8 . 62 . 050 Registering Under Fictitious Name
Prohibited
8 . 62. 060 Repeated Use of Room Prohibited
8 . 62 . 070 Hourly Room Rates Prohibited
8 . 62 . 010 Findings and Definition. The City
Council of the City of Azusa finds and declares
as follows:
A. The purpose of this Chapter is to prevent
the development of the types of nuisances
described in the California Red Light Abatement
Law, Penal Code Sections 11225 , et seq.
B. The regulations set forth in this Chapter
are reasonably related to the accomplishment
of this purpose and will not unduly inter-
fere with the legitimate operation of public
lodgings within the City.
C. As used in this Chapter, "Public lodging
facility" shall mean any hotel , motel ,
lodging house, boardinghouse, trailer court
or similar public lodging facility.
8 . 62 . 020 Immoral Acts Prohibited. No person
conducting or owning any public lodging facility
and no person in actual charge, management or
control of such a facility, nor any agent thereof,
shall knowingly suffer, allow or permit any portion
thereof to be used as a house of ill fame or place
of assignation for the purpose of prostitution.
8. 62 . 030 Registration Required. Every person
conducting or owning a public lodging facility
in the City shall at all times keep and main-
tain therein a register or other permanent
document in which shall be inscribed with ink
the name and home street and town address of
each and every guest or person renting or
occupying a room or area therein. Such regis-
ter or document shall be signed by the person
renting or occupying a room or area, and the
agent of the public lodging facility shall
thereupon write opposite such name or names so
registered the number of each room or area as-
signed to or occupied by each such guest ,
together with the time when such room is rented.
Until all of such entries shall have been made
in such register or document , no such agent
shall allow or permit such guest or person to
occupy privately any room or area in such
facility.
8. 62 . 040 Inspection of Register, Alterations .
Erasurers or alterations on the register or docu-
ment required by Section 8. 62 . 030 shall not be
permitted or made for any purpose , and it shall
be unlawful to erase a name or names and address
or addresses or to permit or allow such an erasure.
Such register or documents shall be kept in a con-
spicuous place and shall be at all times open to
the inspection of any peace officer for lawful
purposes.
8. 62 . 050 Registering Under Fictitious Name
Prohibited. No person shall write or cause to be
written, or knowingly permit to be written in any
register in any public lodging facility any other
or different name or designation than the true
name of the person registering therein.
8. 62 . 060 Repeated Use of Room Prohibited. No
person shall let any room or area in any public
lodging facility in the City more than twice in
a twenty-four (24) hour period.
8. 62 .070 Hourly Room Rates Prohibited. No person
conducting or owning a public lodging facility and
no person in actual charge , management or control
of a public lodging facility, nor agent thereof,
shall let or cause to be let any room or area for
hourly or other short-time rates of less than
twenty-four (24) hours , or in any way advertise
that any room or area is available at hourly or
other short-time rates of less than twenty-four
(24) hours .
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SECTION 2 . The City Clerk shall certify to the
passage of this Ordinance and shall cause the same to be
published as required by law.
PASSED AND APPORVED this 20thday of August , 1984 .
4r.t*IiMAYOR
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS.
CITY OF AZUSA
I, ADOLPH SOLIS, City Clerk of the City of Azusa,
do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 2235
was regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading
at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 6th
day of August , 1984 . That thereafter, said Ordinance
was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City
Council on the 20th day of August , 1984 , by the following
vote to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: CRUZ , COOK, CAMARENA, LATTA, MOSES
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
AD PH O S, City Clerk
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