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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0697 AN ORDINANCE providing for the regulation of Hotels, Rooming Houses and Lodging Houses within the City of Bremerton, and providing penalties for the violation thereof. THE CITY COUNCIL O~ THE CITY OF B~E~RTON DO ORDAIN AS ~OLLOWS: Section 1. That no person shall conduct, keep, manage, operate or cause to be conducted, kept, managed or operated, either as owner, lessor, agent or attorney, an~ hotel, rooming house or lodging house within the corporate limits of the City ~emerton without having first obtained a license from the City of Br~msr~on sd ~o~o. And all said licenses shall be issue& annually and shall expire Dec~ b~e~r/'Zlst of each year. The fee for each li~ense shall be Ten Dollars ($10.OO~.~d no license shall be issued fo~ less amount. ~//'~Se~tto~ 2~ F~ the ~purpose of this ordinance ~he word "person shall mean an~-ln--, -'~lu~ff~%r~on~ co-~rtnerships, corporations and associations, Section ~. Nothi~ in this ordinance con~ain~s~all be construed to deprive the Council of po~er~ revoke any license issued ~re in provided. Section ~. ~o lic~nse~all be issued to any person or lodging house,rooming house or lodging house within the City of Bremerton unless such person is of ascertained good moral character; and when application for such license is made, the applicant stall present himself in person to the Ohief of Police, and at shch time present to said 2hief of Police satisfactory proof of good moral character, When application for a license is made by or on behalf of a co-partners~ip, corporation or association, such application shall be made by the Manager, Officer, Agent or other person who will have the charge and management of such hotel, rooming house or lodging house. Section 8. No license issued in this ordinance provided shall be transferred or assigned. Section ?. No person to whom a license shall be issued, as pro- vided in this ordinance shall suffer or permit the hotel, rooming house or lodging house to which such license relates to be used as a house of ill- fame, brothel, bawdy house or disorderly house, for the purpose of prostitmtion, assignation, or lewdness; or suffer any lascivious co-habitation, adultery, assignation or other immoral practice to be carried on therein. Section 8. Every person to whom a license shall hav~ been issued to conduct a hotel, ro~ming or lodging house shall at all times keep a:standard hotel register in which shall be inscribed the names of all guests or persons renting or occupying rooms in such house, which rggister shall be signed by the person renting a room or rooms, or by some one under his direction. Such registration must be made, and after the name or names so inscribed or registered, the manager of the house, or his agent, shall write the number of the room or rooms which such guest or person is to occupy, together with the time when such room is rented. All of which shall be done before such person is permitted to occupy such room or rooms. Such register shall be at all times open to inspec~on by any guest of the house wherein such register is kept and to any executive or peace officer of the City of Bremerton ~r of the State of Washington. Section 9. It shall be unlawful for any person to write or cause to be written in any hotel register any other different name than the true nmme of such person, or the ~ame by which such person is generally known. Section lC. No room shall be assigned to two persons of the opposite s~x , except in the case of children accompanied by parent or guardian, unless such person shall be registered as husband and wife. Section ll. Any person to whom a license shall have been issued, as provided in this ordinance, shall cause each sleeping room and apartment in such house to which such license relates to be numbered in a plain and conspicu- ous manner, the number to be placed on the outside of the doo~ to such room, and no two such doors shall bear the same number. Section 12. Where a license shall have been issued to any co-partnership, corporation or association to conduct a hotel, rooming house or lodging house, any person having charge, management or control of such hotel, rooming house or lodging house shall be liable to prosecution for any violation of this ordinance. Section 15. Nor the purpose of determining liability of any person or persons to prosecution for violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance it shall be sufficient to show that such a person was at the time of the act of violation complained of, the person in actual charge, management or control of the house in which an act is alleged to have been committed. Section 14. sit shall be the d~ty of every person to whom a license is issued as provided in this ordinance, to display such license in a conspicuous manner in the office of the hotel, rooming house or lodging house to which said license relates. Section 15. The Council may cancel any license issued hereunder for violation of any provision hereof, Before such cancellation, however, the license shall be notified and shall have a hearing before the Oouncil if demanded. Section 16. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance, upon conviction thereof in the municipal court, shall be punished by a fine not to excee~ three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the city jail of the City of ~remerton for a period not to exceed ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Section 17. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Section 18. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect five ~5) days from and after its passage, approval and publica~ion~ Passed by.tho City Council of the City of Bremerton this 23rd day of Augus~,~ 1920. ~y~r. ~ A~test: