Ordinance - 730ORDINANCE NO. 730
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
-. WEST COVINA AMENDING THE WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE
BY THE ADDITION THERETO OF PROVISIONS RELATING TO
IMMORAL CONDUCT IN PLACES OF PUBLIC LODGING.
The City Council of the City of West Covina does ordain as
forollows:
SECTION 1. The West Covina Municipal Code is hereby amended
by the addition thereto of new Sections,4124 to 4132, inclusive, reading
respectively as follows:
114124. IMMORAL ACTS IN PUBLIC LODGINGS UNLAWFUL.
No person conducting any motel, lodging house, trailer court,
or hotel in the City, and no person in actual charge, management or
control of any motel, lodging house, trailer court, or hotel therein,
shall suffer or permit any portion thereof to be used as a house of
ill fame or place of assignation for the purpose of prostitution,
fornication or lewdness, or suffer or permit any lascivious cohabi-
tation, adultery, fornication or other immoral practice to be carried
on therein, or suffer any person to make engagements for immoral
purposes therefrom, or suffer or permit any lewd, immoral or degen-
erate person to occupy any portion thereof, or direct persons
thereto or -.elsewhere for immoral purposes. And it shall be lawful
And competent for the City to introduce in the trial of any person
charged with violation of this Chapter, testimony as to the general
character and reputation of said place or of persons who occupy
rooms in or frequent said place.
4125. REGISTRATION REQUIRED AT PUBLIC LODGINGS.
Every person conducting any motel, lodging house, trailer
court, 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 or rooms therein. Such
register shall be signed by the person renting or occupying a room
or rooms, 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 oceupied'by each such guest, together with the time when such
room is rented; and until all of the aforesaid entries shall have
been made in such register, no such guest shall be suffered or per-
mitted to occupy privately any room in such house. When the occupant
or 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 occupant or occupants.
4126. SAME. ALTERATIONS. INSPECTION OF REGISTER.
Erasures or alterations on the register 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 kept in a conspicuous place, and shall be at all
times open to the inspection of any guest of such house or hotel
and of any executive or police officer of the City.
4127. 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,
trailer court, or hotel, any other or different name or designation
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than the true name of the person registering therein, or the name
by which such person is generally known.
4128. REPEATED USE PROHIBITED.
No person except as in this Chapter provided shall let for
sleeping or lodging purposes any room in any motel, lodging house,
trailer court, or hotel in the City more than once, between the
hours of 6:00 o'clock in the evening and 6:00 o'clock in the morning
of the next day, except to bona fide travelers with baggage.
4129. OCCUPANCY RESTRICTED.
No proprietor, manager or other person in charge of any motel,
lodging house, trailer court, or hotel shall rent or assign to or
suffer or permit to be rented or assigned to or be privately occupied
jointly by persons of opposite sex, any room or rooms therein unless
such persons shall be registered as husband and wife, brother and
sister, or as parent and child, or if, notwithstanding such regis-
tration, such proprietor, manager or other person receiving such
persons as guests into such place shall have reasonable cause to
believe such persons not to be, and they be not, husband and wife,
brother and sister, or parent and child. No two persons of opposite
sex, except husband and wife, brother and sister, or parent and
child, shall occupy jointly and privately any place, room or rooms
in any dwelling, apartment house, flat, rooming house, lodging house,
trailer, motel, hotel or other building.
4130. IMMORAL PROPOSITIONING PROHIBITED.
No person shall invite or entice or suggest to any person or
persons upon any street, alley, road, drive or in any park or other
place, that they accompany, go with or follow him or her to any
place for immoral purposes, or where immoral acts are indulged in,
and no person shall invite, entice or address or suggest to any
person from any door, window, porch or portico of any house or
building that they.enter any house or go with, accompany or follow
him or her to any place whatever for immoral purposes or where
immoral acts are to be indulged in.
4131. TRANSPORTING FOR IMMORAL PURPOSES PROHIBITED.
No person shall knowingly transport or assist in transporting
in any manner whatever any person or persons for immoral purposes,
or to or from a place where immoral practices are indulged in.
4132. SOLICITING PROHIBITED. No person shall solicit -or
receive compensation for soliciting for a prostitute or lewd person,
or give information about or direct any other person or persons to
any house or place or to any person for:.immoral purposes, whether
the communication be by word of mouth direct or by telephone or by
writing or by any other means."
.SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption and
passage of this ordinance and shall publish the same as required by law.
Passed and approved this 8th day of January j 196a.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS.
CITY OF 'WEST COVINA
I, ROBERT FLOTTEN, City Clerk of the City of West Covina, do
hereby certify that the above Ordinance No. 730 was regularly intro-
ced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the City
Council on the 26th day of December 1961. That, thereafter, said
ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City
Council on the gth day of January , 1962, by the following vote,
to -wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Adams, Towner, Barnes, Snyder, Mayor Heath
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT:Councilmen: None
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City Clerk
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