Saint Paul Legislative Code § 407.01 License required.
Sec. 407.01. - License required.
No person shall keep or operate a hotel in Saint Paul without a license.
(Code 1956, § 335.01)
Hotels
Saint Paul Legislative Code tit. XXIX, ch. 407
in effectSaint Paul Legislative Code § 407.02 Definition.
Sec. 407.02. - Definition.
"Hotel" means and includes every building or structure kept, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public to be a place where sleeping or rooming accommodations are furnished to the general public for a shorter period of time than one (1) week, whether with or without meals and which does not qualify for a bed and breakfast residence license under the provisions of chapter 378. The person or persons in charge of any such hotel, whether as owner, lessee, manager or agent, shall, for the purpose of this chapter, be deemed to be the proprietor of such hotel.
(Code 1956, § 335.05; Ord. No. 17395, § 1, 9-4-86)
Saint Paul Legislative Code § 407.03 Fee.
Sec. 407.03. - Fee.
The fee required is as set forth in Saint Paul Legislative Code section 310.18.
(Code 1956, § 335.05; C.F. No. 03-127, § 1, 3-5-03)
Saint Paul Legislative Code § 407.04 Licensing requirements.
Sec. 407.04. - Licensing requirements.
(a) Application. In addition to all other required information, the application shall set forth the name, the place of residence of the applicant, the exact location at which the applicant proposes to carry on said business, and shall further state whether or not he is then or has previously been engaged in such business. Said application shall be signed by the applicant in person.
(b) Hearing; renewal. Every person, firm or corporation conducting or operating a hotel shall make application for renewal of license at least thirty (30) days before expiration thereof.
(c) Inspection, reports, etc. The inspector shall refer a copy of the application to the director of the department of safety and inspections, and the director of the department of police, and require from said directors, respectively, a report as to whether or not the proposed place of business named in said application, together with the appliances and equipment used or to be used therein in the conduct of said business, are sanitary and in all manner comply with the rules of the department of safety and inspections as to sanitary conditions and surroundings; a report as to the character of the applicant, and as to whether or not the person applying for such license has ever operated or conducted a similar business previously, or been connected with one, and as to whether or not said applicant has ever been arrested and charged with conducting a disorderly house or with having sold intoxicating liquors illegally; and a report as to whether or not the premises in which it is proposed to conduct said business are safe and provided with all the necessary means for the prevention of fire and for the safety of persons who may be in said premises by reason of the conduct of said business.
(Code 1956, §§ 335.03, 335.04; C.F. No. 96-1115, § 1, 11-27-96; C.F. No. 07-149, § 147, 3-28-07)
Saint Paul Legislative Code § 407.05 Hotel registers.
Sec. 407.05. - Hotel registers.
Every person operating a hotel shall keep at all times a suitable book, to be known as the hotel register, in which it shall be required that every person to whom a room is let or assigned shall have his, her or their name or names registered therein in ink, and shall set forth a true statement of the date and the hour of the day at which the room was let or assigned, and the correct number or other designation of the room and the number of occupants assigned thereto; and it shall be unlawful for any person operating a hotel under the provisions of this chapter to let or assign any room for sleeping accommodations or otherwise more than once in any period of eight (8) hours. All such registers shall be preserved for one (1) year after the last entry is made therein, and in case the register is in the form of a looseleaf book, all of such sheets shall be preserved for one (1) year after the last entry on such sheets. All of the pages of said register or the looseleaf sheets, as the case may be, shall be dated and consecutively numbered. No person shall knowingly make or permit or allow others to make any false entries in said register, or make or permit or allow any other person to enter in said register the name or names of any person or persons not actually guests at such hotel. Any other person making on such register any such false entries or entering thereon the name or names of persons not actually guests at such hotel shall also be guilty of violating this chapter. Making false entries in said register shall include registration under another name than the true name of the person registered or registering.
(Code 1956, § 335.09)
Saint Paul Legislative Code § 407.06 Requirements.
Sec. 407.06. - Requirements.
Applicable laws, rules and regulations. No persons shall be granted a license nor shall any person operate a business licensed under this chapter that is not in compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations. Hotels shall also comply with Minnesota Statutes Chapter 327 and Minnesota Rules 4625 as amended from time to time and any other applicable state statutes, rules or regulations.
(Ord. No. 12-29, § 1, 5-23-12)
Saint Paul Legislative Code § 407.07 Inspection.
Sec. 407.07. - Inspection.
It shall be the duty of the director of the division of public health, by himself or through his duly appointed inspectors, from time to time, during the life of any license granted hereunder, to inspect the place of business of the licensee to ascertain that the same is conducted in a proper, clean and sanitary manner, and if such inspection shows that the same is not so conducted, to make report of the fact to the inspector, who shall immediately transmit the same to the council. The conduct of his business by any licensee hereunder in an unclean or unsanitary manner shall be cause for the revocation of any license issued under this chapter.
(Code 1956, § 335.08)
Saint Paul Legislative Code § 407.08 License cancellation.
Sec. 407.08. - License cancellation.
The conduct of any hotel in a disorderly manner or permitting any immoral conduct or practice therein, or the violation of any of the rules or regulations of the department of safety and inspections or department of police, or any of the provisions of this chapter, shall be sufficient cause for the refusal of a license or the cancellation of any license already issued to the keeper or owner thereof.
(Code 1956, § 335.10; C.F. No. 07-149, § 148, 3-28-07)
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