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HomeMy WebLinkAbout499 - Hotel Registry• • • ORDINANCE NO. 499 The City of Newport Beach, by and through its City Council, does ordain as follows: Section 1. Every hotel, lodging house, apartment house, bungalow court , motel or rooming house wherein rooms are rented to the general public, shall keep and maintain a permanent b o u n d register in the office thereof wherein each lodger, roomer, person or- occupant occupying any room, shall be re- quired to set forth his or their names and permanent places of address before being permitted to occupy any such room. Section 2. The register herein required shall be permanently bound so that no sheet may be taken there- from and shall be of the minimum size of at least twelve inches by twelve inches and shall be kept in the office of said person rent- ing rooms aforesaid, where the same may be inspected by any police officer of the City of New- port Beach. Section 3. Any person, firm or corpora- tion, whether as principal, agent, employee, or otherwise, violating any provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than seventy -five dollars ($75), or by imprisonment in the City Jail of the City of Newport Beach or the County Jail of the County of Orange, in the State of California, for a term not ex- ceeding thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Such person, firm or corporation shall be deemed guilty of a separ- ate offense for each and every day during any portion of which any violation of this ordinance is com- mitted, continued o r permitted by such person, firm or corpora- Von and shall be punishable as herein provided. Section 4. This ordinance is hereby declar- ed to be an urgency measure, necessary for the immediate pre - seivation of t o public p e a c e, health and safety, within the meaning of Section 1, of Article IV of the Coustitutlon, and there- fore shall go into effect imme- diately upon its first publication. The facts constituting the neces- sity are as follows: That during the Easter vacation there are large crowds of high school and college students and other young people who spend their said Easter vacations at Newport Beach; that large crowds congregate at lodging h o u s e s, hotels, rooming houses and other places where lodgers are accom- modated and it becomes impos- sible to properly regulate these vacationists as they are not at the present time required to regis- ter, under any ordinance of the city of Newport Beach; that proper regulation of these vaca- tionists is required in order that the peace and morals of the com- munity may be safe- guarded; that in the ordinary course of events the City Council will not have time to pass an ordinance without an urgency clause attached there- to, before the coming Easter vaca- tion. Section 5. The City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach shall certify to the separate vote on the urgency of this ordinance and its passage by the vote of five members of the City Council of the City of Newport Beach, and cause the same to be published once in NEWPORT B A L B O A NEWS TIMES, a newspaper printed and published in the City of Newport Beach, and upon such publication this ordinance shall become im- mediately operative and take full effect. I hereby certify that the above and foregoing ordinance was in- troduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Newport Beach held on the 3rd day of February, 1941, and the urgency of the foregoing ordi- nance was passed and the fore- going ordinance was finally adopt- ed by a vote of five members of the City Council of the City of Newport Beach at an adjourned regular meeting thereof held on the 17th day of February, 1941. by the following vote, to -wit: AYES, COUNCILMEN: Reed, Claire, Allen, Brown, Gordon. NOES, COUNCILMEN: None. ABSENT, COUNCILMEN: None. ATTEST: FRANK L. RINEHART, City Clerk Thz above and foregoing or- dinance is approved by me this 17th day of February, 1941. IRVIN GEO. GORDON, Mayor of the city of Newport Beach. Pub: Feb. 20, 1941.