[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Town Commissioners
of the Town of Bel Air 3-11-1980 by Ord. No. 310 as Ch. 6, Art. 8 of the
1980 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Lodging or rooming houses providing sleeping accommodations.
Lodging or rooming houses include buildings in which separate sleeping
rooms are rented providing sleeping accommodations on either a transient
or permanent basis, with or without meals being offered or with separate
cooking facilities for individual occupants.
Includes a building or group of buildings under the same
management in which there are sleeping accommodations for hire, primarily
used by transients who are lodged with or without meals, whether designated
as a hotel, inn, club, motel or by any other name. So-called "apartment
hotels" shall be classified as hotels because they are potentially
subject to transient occupancy like that of hotels.
A building or group of buildings under the same management
in which there are sleeping accommodations for hire used primarily
for transient occupancy with individual entrances from outside to
service each of the guest rooms, including but not limited to a motor
lodge or tourist court.
The proprietor or manager of any hotel, motel
or boardinghouse as defined above shall require the following information
of any person or persons registering for a room:
A.Â
Full name of the individual registering.
B.Â
Names of any other persons in the party with the registrant.
C.Â
Verification of the registrant's name through
driver's license, military identification, or other such identifying
material with the number of said identification card being recorded
on the registration.
D.Â
Description of any vehicle being driven by the registrant,
including license number.
E.Â
Permanent home residence of the registrant, verified
through driver's license, registration card for motor vehicle
or some other means of identification.
The owner, manager or operator of any hotel,
motel or boardinghouse shall provide and make available to police
officers of the Town of Bel Air, State of Maryland or any federal
police agency registration records of said hotel, motel or boardinghouse
upon request of any police officer.
It shall be unlawful for any hotel, motel or
boardinghouse owner, manager or operator to allow registration in
any hotel, motel or boardinghouse without the above information being
obtained prior to issuance of keys for a hotel, motel or boardinghouse
room.
