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ORDINANCE NO. 322.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA
3 PROVIDING FOR THE REGULATION OF HOTELS AND ROOMING HOUSES, PRO-
HIBITING THE OCCUPANCY THEREOF AND OF OTHER BUILDINGS BY LEWD
4 PERSONS, AND PROHIBITING CERTAIN IMMORAL ACTS AND PRACTICES,
[) THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DO ORDAIN AS
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SECTION 1:
It shall be unlawful for any perBon
8 lioensed to oonduct any lOdging houBe or hotel in the City of
9 Aroadia or any person in aotual charge, management or oontrol of
10 any lodging house or hotel therein, to Buffer or permi t anY ,
11 portion thereof to be uBed as a house of ill fame or plaoe of
12 aBsignation for the purpose of prostitution, fornioation or
13 lewdneBs, or to Buffer or permit any laBoivious co-habitation,
14 adultery, fornication or other immoral practioe to be carried on
15 therein, or to suffer any person to make engagements for immoral
16 purposes therefrom, or to suffer or permit any lewd, immoral or
17 degenerate person to ocoupy any portion thereof, or to direot
18 persons thereto or elBewhere for immoral purpoBes. And it Bhall
19 be lawful and competent for the City to introduce in the trial
20 of any person oharged with violation of this Ordinance, testimony
21 aB to the general oharaoter and reputation of Baid plaoe or of
22 persons who oooupy rooms in or frequent said place.
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SECTION 2:
Every perBon conduoting any lodging house
24 or hotel in the City of Arcadia shall at all timeB keep and
25 maintain therein a hotel register, in which shall be inBcribed
26 with ink or indelible penoil, the name and home street and town
27 addrese of eaoh and every guest or perBon renting or oocupying
28 a room .or rooms therein. Such regiBter shall be signed by the
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perBon renting or oooupying a room or rooms, and the proprietor
of Buoh lodging house or hotel or his or her agents shall there-
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upon write oppoBite such name or names BO regiBtered the number
of eaoh room aBBigned to or ocoupi~d by eaoh such guest, together
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1 with the time when such room iB rented; and until all of the
2 aforesaid entries Bhall have been made in suoh register, no such
3 guest Bhall be suffered or permitted to oocupy privately any room
4 in Buoh house. When the oooupant or oooupants of each room so
G rented shall quit and surrender the Bame, it shall be the further
6 duty of the proprietor of suoh hotel or his or her agent to enter
7 the time thereof in such regiBter opposite the name of such
8 ocoupant or oooupants. And its hall be unlawful for any perBon
9 except as in this ordinanoe provided to let for sleeping or lodg-
10 ing purposes any room in any lodging house or hotel in the City
11 of Arcadia more than onoe between the hours of Bix o'olock in the
12 evening and Biz o'olock in the morning of the next day, except to
13 bona fide travelerB with baggage. EraBures or alterations on the
14 regiBter shall not be permitted or made for any purpose, and it
15 Bhall be unlawful to erase a name or nameB or address or addreBBes
16 or to permit suoh an erasure. Such register shall be kept in a
17 oonspicuous plaoe, and shall be at all times open to the inspectio
18 of any gueBt of Buch house or hotel and of any exsoutive or police
19 officer of the City of Aroadia.
20 SECTION 3: It Bhall be unlawful for any person to
21 write or oause to be written, or knowingly permit to be written
22 in any regiBter in any lodging house or hotel in the City of
23 Aroadia, any other or different name or deBignation than the true
24 name of the person regiBtering therein, or the name by which such
25 person iB generally known.
26 SECTION 4: It shall be unlawful for the proprietor,
27 manager or other person in charge of any lodging house or hotel
28 in the City of Arcadia, to rent or aSBign to or suffer or permit
29 to be rented or aSBigned to or be privately oooupied jointly by
30 perBona of opposite sex, any room or roomB in such lodging hOUBe
31 or hotel unl ess Buch persons shall be registered aB husband and
32 wife, brother and Bister, or aB parent and child, or if, notwith-
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1 standing such registration, such proprietor, manager or other
2 perBon receiving Buch perBons as gueBts into Buch house, or hotel
3 shall have reasonable oause to believe such persons not to be, and
4 they be not, husband and wife, brother and sister, or parent and
5 child. All personB renting or assigning rooms shall report to the
G police any suspicious oharacter or oharacterB who may apply for
7 rooms or ocoupy rooms, and shall report any Buspicioue aotB of any
8 perBon applying for or oooupying roome, and it shall be unlawful
9 for any person renting or aSSigning roomB to fail to report to the
10 police any Buspioious aots of any perBon applying for or Oocupying
11 roomB.
12 SECTION 5: It Bhall be unlawful for any two perBons of
13 oppoBite sex, except husband and wife, brother and sister, or
14 parent and ohild, to oocupy jointly and privately any place, room
15 or rooms in any dwelling, apartment houBe, flat, rooming house,
16 lodging house, hotel or other building in the City of Aroadia.
17 SECTION 6: It Bhall be unlawful for any person to
18 invite or entioe or Buggest to any person or persons upon any
19 street, alley, road, drive or in any park or other plaoe, that
20 theyacoompany, go with or follow him or her to any plaoe for
21 immoral purpoBeB, or where immoral aots are indulged in, and
22 it shall be unlawful for any person to invite, entice or address
23 or Buggest to any perBon 'from any door, window, poroh or portico
24 of any house or building that they enter any house or go with,
25 aocompany or follow him or her to any place whatever for immoral
26 purposeB or where immoral aots are to be indulged in.
27 SECTION 7: It ehall be unlawful for any person to
28 knowingly, transport or assiBt in transporting in any manner what-
29 ever any person or persons for immoral purposes, or to or from a
30 place where immoral pra9tices are indulged in.
31 SECTION 8: It shall be unlawful for any perBon to
32 Bolicit or receive oompenBation for soliciting for a prostitute
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or lewd perBon, or to give information about or direot. any other
perBon or persons to any hOUBe or plaoe or to any perBon for im-
moral purposeB, whether the oommunication be by word of mouth
direot or by telephone or by writing or by any other means.
SECTION 9: It Bhall be unlawful for any person to
oppoBe or impede any offioer of said City in the exeoution of
his duties hereunder.
SECTION 10: Any person violating any of the provisions
of this Ordinanoe shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon oonviction thereof Bhall be puniBhable by fine not exoeeding
$300.00 or by impriBonment in the City Jail of Baid City of
Aroadia or in the County Jail of the County of Los AngeleB, state
of California, at the diBoretion of the oommitting magistrate,
for a term not exoeeding three (3) months or by both such fine
and imprisonment.
SECTION ll: The City Clerk Bhall oertify to the adop-
tion of this Ordinance and shall post a oopy of this Ordinance on
the bulletin board on the EaBt Bide of the City Hall in said City
of Aroadia.
The City Clerk Bhall caUBe the title of this Ordinance
to be pubiiBhed onoe in the Arcadia Tribune, a weekly newspaper
pUbliBhed and ciroulated in Baid City of Arcadia.
In addition to the title, the City Clerk shall oause
this notice to be published:
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. NOTICE
A oopy of thiB Ordinance haB been posted on the bulletin
board at the City Hall; there iB also a copy on file in the offioe
of the City Clerk. "
And thirty (30) daYB therefrom and thereafter the same shall take
effect and be in foroe,
I hereby oertify that the foregoing Ordinanoe waB adop-
ted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of
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Aroadia, held on the 3rd
day of Se~tember
, 1935, by
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CounQilmen, Dantl1l,B;_H61'f.m~n;.L'Krebs and McLean.
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NOES: None.
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ABSENT: Councilman O'mr,by:.,.
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Signed and approved thiB 3rd day of Septem'ber
,1935.
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