§ 33-17 — Guest register required
Denver Revised Municipal Code (Supp. No. 147, Update 3: codified through Ordinance No. 0852-26, enacted July 13, 2026) · Denver Revised Municipal Code § 33-17
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Sec. 33-17. - Guest register required.
(a) Every person conducting any hotel, lodging house, rooming house or other place where transients are accommodated whatsoever in the city shall, at all times, keep and maintain therein a standard hotel register, in which shall be inscribed in ink or indelible pencil the name and home street and town address of each and every guest or person renting or occupying a room therein. Such register shall be signed by each occupant of a room, or by the person renting same, for themselves or on behalf of such persons for whom the person is renting the same, and the proprietor or person in charge of such hotel, lodging house, rooming house or other place where transients are accommodated, or an agent, shall thereupon write opposite such name so registered, the number of each room assigned to and occupied by each guest, together with the time when such room was rented; and until all of the aforesaid entries shall have been made in such register, no such guest shall be suffered or permitted to occupy privately any room in such house. (b) When the occupant of each room so rented shall quit and surrender the same it shall be the further duty of the proprietor or person in charge of such hotel or house, or an agent, to enter the time thereof in such register opposite the name of such occupant. (c) Such register shall be kept at all times open to the inspection of any guest of such hotel, lodging house, rooming house or other place where transients are accommodated, wherein such register is kept and of any police officer or other public officer of the city.
(Code 1950, § 931.5)