Ordinance #72

Licensing & Regulation
Requiring Transient Lodging Facilities to Maintain Guest Records - Brookfield

ORDINANCE NO. 1650 by the Legislative Committee

AN ORDINANCE CREATING A SECTION OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE REQUIRING HOTELS, MOTELS, INNS AND OTHER TRANSIENT LODGING FACILITIES TO MAINTAIN CERTAIN RECORDS.

The Common Council of the City of Brookfield do ordain as follows:

PART 1. The Municipal Code of the City of Brookfield is hereby amended to include the following:

HOTELS, MOTELS, INNS AND OTHER TRANSIENT LODGING FACILITIES RECORDS

(1) Every owner. keeper, proprietor or agent of any lodging house, rooming house, motel, hotel, inn or other transient lodging facility shall keep a register wherein all guests, roomers or lodgers shall inscribe their names and permanent address upon procuring lodging, a room or accommodations. The owner, keeper, proprietor or agent shall also inscribe the room number occupied and the date and time of registration and checkout.

(2) Said owner, keeper, proprietor or agent shall request identification of any guest, roomer or lodger paying in cash, at the time of registration. Such identification shall be in a valid and current form showing the person's name, date of birth, and may be, but is not limited to, a driver's license, state issued picture identification card, or such other form as will reasonably assure that the registrant is, in fact, the person under whose name such lodging room or accommodation is being procured. A photocopy of such identification shall be maintained or the identifying information transposed into the registration record. For any guest, roomer or lodger taking occupancy through a prearranged reservation in the name of a corporation, business, association or any other entity, the owner, keeper or proprietor shall request identification of the specific guest, roomer or lodger at the time of registration as will reasonably assure such person to be the person for whom the lodging, room or accommodations have been procured. Said owner, keeper or proprietor shall verify the credit card signature of each guest, roomer or lodger making payment by way of credit card, with the signature inscribed upon hotel register.

(3) No person may knowingly procure or provide lodging from a rooming house, motel, hotel, inn or other transient lodging facility, or any services therefrom, through misrepresentation or production of false identification, or identification which misrepresents the identity of the person procuring or sharing in such lodging or service. No person may knowingly give. or cause to be given, an incorrect name. address, date of birth. or license plate number to any owner, keeper. proprietor or agent of any establishment required to maintain records under this section.

(4) Records required to be maintained in accordance with subsections (1), (2) and (3) of this section. together with vehicle registration information. records of telephone calls and other billing records, when maintained by the establishment in the ordinance course of business. shall be provided to any officer of the City of Brookfield Police Department upon demand and representation that a reasonable suspicion exists that such information is relevant to a then-pending inquiry or investigation. Nothing in this requirement shall be construed as giving any such officer any greater right or license to enter a room or invade privacy than the officer shall otherwise possess.

(5) Records required to be kept in accordance with this section shall be retained for one (1) year after the date the last entry is recorded.

PART II. All ordinances and parts of ordinances contravening the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed.

PART III. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.