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HomeMy WebLinkAbout4041 AN ORDINANCE setting license fees for the operation of a Hotel/Motel and repealing Ordinance #2019 as amended by #352§, Section 1, and 3625, Section 21. The City Council of the City of Bremerton does hereby ordain: SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS For the purpose of this chapter the word "hotel/motel" means and includes hotels, motels, roominghouses, lodginghouses, and any building, portion of building or group of buildings used for human habitation containing two or more rooms intended or designed to be used or which may be used for sleeping or living purposes by tourists or temporary guests for periods of less than thirty days which are rented or hired out for compensation as a business. Places where children, elderly people, invalids, or convalescents are exclusively accommodated are not to be considered hotels/motels. SECTION 2. LICENSE It shall be unlawful for any person, as owner, lessor, lessee, manager or agent to conduct, keep, manage or operate, or cause to be conducted, managed or operated, any hotel in the city without first obtaining a license from the city so to do, and which shall be known as a "hotel/motel license". SECTION 3. FEES The fees to be charged for a license under this chapter shall be as follows: twenty-five dollars per year, plus one dollar per unit per year for each hotel/motel subject to this chapter. In the event that the license fee is not paid within fifteen days of the due date, there shall be levied a delinquency fee of three dollars or ten percent of the annual gross license fee due plus delinquent charges, whichever is greater. SECTION 4. TERM OF LICENSE - 1 - All licenses issued hereunder shall expire on June 30th of each year and shall not be transferable. Upon any change of ownership of a hotel/motel, the new owner must apply for and secure a new license. Licenses shall be pro-rated on a monthly basis. SECTION 5. A~~, ~n~ app~zca~on rot a hotel/motel license shall be made in writing to the City Clerk and shall state the name of the applicant or applicants, the place where the business is to be conducted, by street and number, the number of rooms to be used by the applicant in the conduct of the business, and the number of rooms to be used for sleeping or lodging purposes. The application shall also state whether the applicant is the owner or lessee o~ t.~e premises to be used as a hotel/motel and if he or she is the lessee, the name and address of the owner. The application shall also state the name of the person who is to have the active management of such hotel. SECTION 6. UNLANFUL TO ADVERTISE UNLICENSED PREMISES No building shall be advertised as a hotel/motel unless the business of conducting a hotel/motel as defined in this chapter has been licensed by the city. SECTION 7. HOTEL REGISTRATION Every person conducting any hotel/motel shall keep a register, in which all guests, roomers and lodgers shall be required to register their names and addresses. The person in charge of registering guests shall indicate on the register the date of each registration and time and date of departure, and shall write opposite the name or names of each such guest, roomer or lodger the number of the room or rooms assigned to such guest, roomer or lodger, and the number of any and all rooms to which said guest, roomer or ledger may subsequently be assigned to occupy. Every hotel register shall be open to inspection at all reasonable times by the police officers and the health officers of the city all the hours in which said hotel is open for the reception of guests, roomers or lodgers. All such registration books shall be preserved for the period of at least two years. -- 2 -- SECTION 8. ROOMS NUMBERED Every person operating a hotel/motel shall cause each sleeping room and apartment in such building to be numbered in a plain and conspicuous manner. Each number shall be placed on the outside door of the room and no two rooms shall bear the same number. SECTION 9. HEARING EXAMINER (a) License-Revocation - The City Clerk may revoke the license whenever he/she shall have reason to believe that the licensee has violated any of the provisions of this Chapter. In the event the City Clerk shall revoke the license (s)he shall cause to be served upon the licensee an order by certified mail which states the reasons therefore and the licensee's appeal rights. Such revocation shall take effect fourteen (14) calendar days from the date of receipt of notice by certified mail, unless the licensee files a written appeal with the office of the Hearing Examiner before the effective date of the City Clerk's administrative decision of revocation. (b) Appeal of License Revocation - Any person whose license is revoked by the City Clerk may appeal such revocation in writing to the Office of the Hearing Examiner within fourteen (14) days from the time notice of the City Clerk's intent to revoke his or her license. Any subsequent hearing before a hearing examiner shall be conducted in accordance with the procedures for conducting hearings on appeals of administrative decisions in the Administrative Procedures Ordinance of the City (Ordinance No. 3961). The determination appealed from shall be regarded as prima facie correct. The examiner may affirm or reverse the final decision of the City Clerk. The decision of the examiner shall be final unless a petition for reconsideration by the examiner is accepted or appeal of the examiner's decision is taken to the City Council pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Procedures Ordinance. SECTION lO. PENALTY FOR VIOLATION Any person violating any of the provisions of this -- 3 -- chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. APPROVED by the City Council on the first reading this ~__ day o~ ~ ~ , 1986. PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton, signed by the Mayor and attested to by the City Glerk in authentication of such passage this ~ ~ day Of ~~-~_ __, 1986. ATTEST: k-~-L-~-~ ~ MCCnUSKE¥, City~lerk Dj rector of Administrative Services - 4-