10.82 - Hotels and Lodging Houses
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Section 10.82: Hotels and Lodging Houses
Subdivision 1. Definitions
For the purpose of this Section, the following terms have the meanings stated:
A. Hotel: means every building or structure or enclosure, or any part thereof,
kept, used as, maintained as, or advertised as, or held out to the public to be
an enclosure where sleeping accommodations are furnished to the public and
furnishing accommodations for periods of less than one (1) week.
B. Lodging House: means every building or structure or any part thereof,
kept, used as, maintained as, advertised as, or held out to be a place where
sleeping accommodations are furnished to the public as regular roomers for
periods of one (1) week or more and having five (5) or more beds to let to
the public.
Subdivision 2. License Required
It is unlawful for any person to keep, maintain or operate a hotel or lodging house
without a license therefor from the City.
Subdivision 3. Regulations Incorporated by Reference Unlawful Act
Regulations of the Minnesota Department of Health relating to hotels and lodging
houses are hereby incorporated herein and made a part hereof as though set forth
verbatim herein. One (1) copy of such regulations shall be kept on file in the office
of the City Clerk and open to inspection during regular office hours. It is unlawful to
violate any provision of such regulations.
Subdivision 4. Inspection
The City may inspect all hotels and lodging houses to determine compliance with
laws and regulations relating thereto.
Subdivision 5. Animals - Unlawful Act
It is unlawful for any guest to keep, or any operator of a hotel or lodging house to
permit keening, any wild or domesticated animal in any room therein. This
Subdivision does not apply to trained seeing-eye, hearing-ear, or guide dogs,
provided, that the guest is responsible for any damage done by the dog.
Subdivision 6. False Registration - Unlawful Act
It is unlawful for any person to register in a hotel under a false or assumed name or
to fraudulently misrepresent the number of persons occupying the accommodation.
Subdivision 7. Hotel Registrations
A. Definition of Hotel. For the purpose of this Subdivision, a hotel is an
operation furnishing sleeping or overnight stopping accommodations for
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transient guests, including a recreational camping area, cabin camp, lodging
house, tourist rooms, motel, hotel, mobile home park or resort.
B. Registration Required. It is unlawful for any person to register at any hotel,
or cause any other person or persons to be registered in any hotel, under
any false name or address, or assumed name or address or under any other
than their true name or address; and it is also unlawful for any person or
persons, who are not in fact husband and wife, to register or cause or permit
themselves to be registered as husband and wife at any hotel.
C. Falsifying Number in Party. It is unlawful for any person to register at any
hotel in such manner as to incorrectly designate the number and names of
other persons in the party who will also be occupying the room for which
registration is being sought; nor shall any person registered at any hotel
permit or allow any other persons who have not been designated in the
registration as persons intended to occupy such room to occupy the same.
D. Hotel Duties. Every person operating a hotel shall provide and keep thereat a
suitable guest register or equivalent for the registration of all guests provided
with sleeping accommodations or other overnight stopping accommodations
therein, and every such guest shall be registered therein. The hotel operator
shall cause to be registered in ink in such register book or equivalent the
name of and address of the guest and every person, if any, with such guest
as a member of the party, the designation of the lodging unit occupied by
each person staying at such hotel, and if traveling by motor vehicle, the
make of such vehicle, and the license plate number carried on the vehicle,
including the name of the state issuing such official plate. In addition at the
time of registrant's first registration and in all subsequent events where the
registrant is unknown to the operator at the place of registration the hotel
operator shall verify the name and home address of the guest by requiring
that the guest display to the operator a valid driver's license, current
identification card, or identification sufficient to verify the guest's name and
home address and the operator shall enter in the guest register the
identification number and issuing authority of the driver's license or
identification card.
E. Guest Registration. Every person, upon arriving at any hotel and applying for
guest accommodations shall furnish to the operator or other attendant in
charge of such hotel, the registration information necessary to complete this
registration in accordance with the requirements of Subparagraph D, above,
and shall not be provided with accommodation unless and until such
information shall be so furnished. The registrant shall be responsible for
room charges, and any damages incurred by the hotel because of the
registrant's or the registrant's guest behavior during the period listed for
occupancy.
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F. Registration Records, Inspection. The registration records provided in this
Subdivision shall be open to the inspection of all law enforcement officers of
the State and its subdivisions.
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