§ 11-2514 — Registration

§ 11-2514 Registration.

By June thirtieth, nineteen hundred seventy, or in the case of operators or room remarketers commencing business or opening new hotels after such date, within three days after such commencement or opening, or in the case of room remarketers doing business on the effective date of the local law that added this phrase, within three days of such effective date, every operator or room remarketer shall file with the commissioner of finance a certificate of registration in a form prescribed by the commissioner of finance. The commissioner of finance shall within five days after such registration issue without charge to each operator or room remarketer a certificate of authority empowering such operator or room remarketer to collect the tax from the occupant and duplicate thereof for each additional hotel or room remarketer of such operator. Each certificate or duplicate shall state the hotel or room remarketer to which it is applicable. Such certificates of authority shall be prominently displayed by the operator or room remarketer in such manner that it may be seen and come to the notice of all occupants and persons seeking occupancy. Such certificates shall be non-assignable and nontransferable and shall be surrendered immediately to the commissioner of finance upon the cessation of business at the hotel named, upon its sale or transfer, or upon cessation of business of the named room remarketer. Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 2009/043.