Ordinance - 1744• ORDINANCE NO. 1744
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA
REPEALING CHAPTER 14, ARTICLE VII OF THE WEST
COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE, RELATING TO PUBLIC
LODGINGS, AND AMENDING CHAPTER 21, ARTICLE
III, RELATING TO TRANSIENT OCCUPANCY TAXES.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA DOES HEREBY
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Chapter 14, Article VII, sections
14-161 through 14-168 of the West Covina Municipal Code
is hereby repealed.
Section 2. Section 21-56 is hereby added to
Chapter 21, Article III of the West Covina Municipal
Code, which shall read as follows:
"Sec. 21-56. Registration required.
Every person conducting any motel,
lodging house, trailer court, or hotel in
the city shall at all times keep and
maintain therein a register, which shall
contain the name and home address of each
and every guest or person renting or
occupying a room therein, the number of
each room assigned to or occupied by each
such guest, and the time when such room
is rented. The register shall be
inscribed with ink or indelible pencil,
and shall be signed by the person renting
• or occupying each room. Until the
entries required by this section are made
in the register, no guest shall be
permitted to privately occupy any room.
When the occupants of each room rented
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• 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
the register opposite the name of such
occupants."
Section 3. Section 21-57 is hereby added to
Chapter 21, Article III of the West Covina Municipal Code,
which shall read as follows:
"Sec. 21-57. Alterations of register.
Erasures or alterations on the
register required by section 21-56 shall
not be made or permitted to be made."
Section 4. Section 21-58 is hereby added to
Chapter 21, Article III of the West Covina Municipal Code,
which shall read as follows:
"Sec. 21-58. 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 than the true name of the
person registering therein, or the name
by which the person is generally known."
Section 5. Section 21-59 is hereby added to
Chapter 21, Article III of the West Covina Municipal Code,
• which shall read as follows:
"Sec. 21-59. Repeated use prohibited.
No person, except as provided in
this article, shall let for sleeping or
lodging purposes any room in any motel,
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• lodging house, trailer court, or hotel in
the city more than once, between the
hours of 6:00 a.m. and 5:59 p.m., and no
more than once between the hours of 6:00
p.m. and 5:59 a.m. of the following
morning."
Section 6. Section 21-51 of the West Covina
Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 21-50. Penalties and interest.
(a) Original delinquency. Any
operator who fails to remit any tax
imposed by this article within the time
required shall pay a penalty of ten (10)
percent of the amount of the tax in
addition to the amount of the tax.
(b) Continued delinquency. Any
operator who fails to remit any
delinquent remittance on or before a
period of thirty (30) days following the
date on which the remittance first became
delinquent shall pay a second delinquency
penalty of ten (10) percent of the amount
of the tax in addition to the amount of
the tax and the ten (10) percent penalty
first imposed.
(c) Fraud. If the tax
administrator determines that the
• nonpayment of any remittance due under
this article is due to fraud, a penalty
of twenty-five (25) percent of the amount
of the tax shall be added thereto in
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• addition to the penalties stated in
paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section.
(d) Interest. In addition to the
penalties imposed, any operator who fails
to remit any tax imposed by this article
shall pay interest at the rate of one-
half of one (1/2 of 1) percent per month,
or fraction thereof, on the amount of the
tax, exclusive of penalties, from the
date on which the remittance first became
delinquent until paid.
(e) Register. For each day that
the register required by section 21-56 is
not maintained a one hundred (100)
percent occupancy rate will be presumed.
(f) Penalties merged with tax.
Every penalty imposed and such interest
as accrues under the provisions of this
section shall become a part of the tax
herein required to be paid."
Section 7. Section 21-53 of the West Covina
Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 21-53. Records.
. It shall be the duty of every
operator liable for the collection and
payment to the city of any tax imposed by
this article to keep and preserve, for a
. period of three (3) years, all registers
and other records as may be necessary to
determine the amount of such tax as he or
she may have been liable for the
collection of and payment to the city."
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• ion 8. The Mayor shall sign and the City Sect y g y Clerk
shall certify to the passage and adoption of this Ordinance
and shall cause the same to be published in the manner
prescribed by law.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 22ndday of June If
1987.
" MAYOR
ATTEST:
CZT LERK
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF WEST COVINA )
I, Helene M. Mooney , City Clerk of the City
of West Covina, do hereby certify that the foregoing
Ordinance No. 1744 was regularly introduced and placed
upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the City
Council on the FAh . day of Junp , 1987. That,
thereafter, said Ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a
regular meeting of the City Council on the 22nd day
of June 1987, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers: Tennant, Shearer, Manners, Chappell
NOES: Councilmembers: None
ABSENT :Counci1members: None
ABSTAIN: Councilmember Bacon
CITY",,CLERK
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
.CITY ATTORNEY
Q.
CERTIFICATION
I, JANET BERRY, Deputy City Clerk of the City of West Covina, State
of California, do hereby certify that a true and accurate copy of
Ordinance No. 1 % was published, pursuant to law, in the San
isGabriel Valley Tribune, a newspaper of general circulation published
and circulated in the City of West Covina.
Janet Berry, City Clerk
City of West Covina, Ca ' ornia
DATED: --f .f" r