HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 569 •
J ORDINANCE NO. 569
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
AZUSA PROHIBITING THE OCCUPANCY OF HOTELS, TRAILER
COURTS, AND OF OTHER BUILDINGS BY LEWD PERSONS,
AND PROHIBITING CERTAIN IMMORAL ACTS AND PRACTICES.
The City Council of the City of Azusa does ordain as
follows :
SECTION 1 . No person conducting any motel, lodging house,
trailer court, or hotel in the City of Azusa, and no person in actual
charge, management or control of any motel, lodging house, trailer
court, or hotel therein, shall suffer or permit any portion thereof to
be used as a house of ill fame or place of assignation for the purppse
of prostitution, fornication or lewdness, or suffer or permit any las-
civious cohabitation, adultery, fornication or other immoral practice
to be carried on therein, or suffer any person to make engagements for
immoral purposes therefrom, or suffer or permit any lewd, immoral or
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degenerate person to occupy any portion thereof, or direct persons
thereto or elsewhere for immoral purposes. And it shall be lawful and.
competent for the City to introduce in the trial of any person charged
with violation of this ordinance, testimony as to the general character
and reputation of said place or of persons who occupy rooms in or fre-
quent said place.
' SECTION 2. Every person conducting any motel, lodging
house, trailer court, or hotel in the City of Azusa shall at all times
keep and maintain therein a register, in which shall be inscribed with
ink or indelible pencil, the name and home street and town address of
each and every guest or person renting or occupying a room or rooms
therein. Such register shall be signed by the person renting or occupy-
ing a room or rooms, and the proprietor of such motel, lodging house,
trailer court, or hotel or his or her agents shall thereupon write op-
posite such name or names so registered the number• of each room assigned
to or occupied by each such guest, together with the time when such room
is rented; and until all of the aforesaid entries shall have been made
in such register, no such guest shall be suffered or permitted to occupy
privately any room in such house. When the occupant or occupants of
each room so rented shall quit and surrender the same, it shall be the
further duty of the proprietor or his or her agent to enter the time
thereof in such register opposite the name of such occupant or occupants.
No person except as in this ordinance provided shall let for sleeping
or lodging purposes any room in any motel, lodging house, trailer court,
or hotel in the City of Azusa more than once between the hours of 6:00
o' clock in the evening and 6:00 o' clock in the morning of the next day,
except to bona fide travelers with baggage. Erasures or alterations
on the register shall not be permitted or made for any purpose, and it
shall be unlawful to erase a name or names or address or addresses or
to permit such an erasure. Such register shall be kept in a conspicuous
place, and shall be at all times open to the inspection of any guest of
such house or hotel and of any executive or police officer of the City
of Azusa.
SECTION 3. No person shall write or cause to be written,
or knowingly permit to be written in any register in any motel, lodging
house, trailer court, or hotel, any other or different name or desig-
nation than the true name of the person registering therein, or the
name. by which such person is generally known.
SECTION 4. No person shall invite or entice or suggest to
any person or persons upon any street, alley, road, drive or in any
park or other place, that they accompany, go with or follow him or her
to any place for immoral purposes, or where immoral acts are indulged
in, and no person shall invite, entice or address or suggest to any
person from any door, window, porch or portico of any house or build-
ing that they enter any house or go with, accompany or follow him or
her to any place whatever for immoral purposes or where immoral acts
are tp be indulged in.
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SECTION 5. No person shall knowingly transport or assist
in transporting in any manner whatever any person or persons for immoral
purposes, or to or from a place where immoral practices are indulged in.
SECTION O. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions
of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con-
viction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed: Five
Hundred Dollars or by imprisonment in the County or City Jail for a
term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 7. 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 approved this 19th day of may , 1958.
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Mayor
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGET,FS SS.
CITY OF AZUSA
I, JAMES MILLER, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, do hereby
certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 569 was regularly introduced
and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the City
Council on theth day of May , 1958. That, thereafter, said
ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City
Council on the lgth day of May , 1958, by the following vote,
to-wit :
AYES: Councilmen: Fawcett, Ortuno, Johnson, Teasley, l4emmesheimer
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT:Councilmen: None
City Clerk of the City of Azusa
I do further certify that I caused said Ordinance to be
published prior to the expiration of fifteen days from the passage
thereof in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic, a newspaper of general
circulation, printed, published and circulated in the City of Azusa, ''`
on the 26th day of May , 1958, and that the same was
published in accordance with law.
City Clerk, f' ty of Azusa
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