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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 -1- 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. -2- 49 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 L ,7 '4� City Clerk -3-