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(1) Public Lodgings – Registration Required. Every person conducting any motel, lodging house or hotel in the city 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 therein. Such register shall be signed by the person renting or occupying a room, and the proprietor of such motel, lodging house, trailer court, or hotel or his or her agents shall thereupon write opposite 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 such 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 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 occupants.

(2) Alterations – Inspection of Register. Erasures or alterations on the register required by subsection (1) of this section 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 at all times open to the inspection of any representative of the city.

(3) 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 motel, lodging house or hotel, any other or different name or designation than the true name of the person registering therein, or the name by which such person is generally known.

(4) Repeated Use Prohibited. No person conducting any motel or other public lodging shall permit more than one occupancy of any room in said motel or other public lodging to commence between the hours of 6:00 a.m. of one day and 5:59 a.m. of the following day.

(5) Subletting Prohibited. No person hiring a room in any motel or other public lodging in the city shall rent or sublet said room to any other person.

(6) Hourly Rates Prohibited. No person conducting any motel or other public lodging or agent thereof shall let any room for sleeping or lodging purposes for hourly or other short-time rates or in any way advertise that any room is available at hourly or other short-time rates. (Ord. 331 § 1. 2002 Code § 3-1.39).