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HomeMy WebLinkAboutordinance.council.003-54ORDINANCE NO. Series of 1954 AN ORDINANCE LICENSING HOTELS, MOTELS AND ROOMING HOUSES; REGULATING THE MINIMUM FACILITIES REQUIRED FOR SUCH BUSI- NESSES AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE ENFORCEMENT, THERE- OF. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ASPEN: Section 1. DEFINITION. For the purpose of this ordinance "rooming house~! shall include hotel, motel, lodging house or other places where roomers or lodgers are received and housed or kept by the day or week for compensation and to which the general public is received. For the purpose of this ordinance the word "person" shall mean and include natural persons, co-partnerships, corporations and associations. Section Z. LICENSES. Any person desiring to operate a room- ing house within the City of Aspen shall make written application for such a license to the City Clerk and shall state in such application the following information, to-wit: (a) Name and address of owner and manager (b) Name and address of business to be licensed (c) Number of rooms and the number of persons that can be accommodated in each room. (d) Number of rooms with private bath (e} Bath facilities forzooms without baths. Immediately upon receipt of the application together with the license fee as hereinafter prescribed, the City Clerk shall notify the city inspector {which person shall be designated by the city council) who shall inspect the premises to be licensed and the application, together with the inspector's report shall be submitted to the City Council at its next meet- ing. The City Inspectors shall determine if all the requirements herein prescribed and all other requirements imposed by the City have been met. The City Council shall approve or reject said application in writing. Section 3. LICENSE FEES. The license fee payable hereunder shall be the sum of $0.50 per bed according to the number of beds shown in the application with a minimum fee of $~-. 00 and a maximum fee of $20.00 per license. Section 4. TERM OF LICENSES. All licenses shall be issued for the balance of the year when granted Dr for the next ensuing year. All licenses shall be non-transferable without the written consent of the City Council of the City of Aspen and no license fee shall be refunded to the holder of a license in the event the licensed premises ceases to be so used. The City Council shall have the right to refuse an applicant when the council has reason to believe that the applicant will not conduct the rooming house in accordance with the ordinances of the City of Aspen or the laws of the State of Colorado. Section 5. REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Every person to whom a license shall have been issued to conduct a rooming house shall at all times keep a daily standard register in which shall be inscribed the names of all guests or persons renting or occupying rooms which register shall be signed by the person renting the room or rooms or by someone under his direction. Registration as herein required shall be completed before such person is permitted to occupy such rooms. Such register shall at all times be open to inspection by any officer of the City of Aspen. Section 6. MINIMUM SPACE REQUIREMENTS. No person who owns or operates a rooming house shall rent or offer to rent any room for sleeping purposes that does not contain a minimum of 40 square feet of floor area for each occupant. Section 7. RESPONSIBILITY FOR CLEANLINESS. Every owner and manager shall at all times keep the rooming house and all parts thereof in a clean and sanitary condition. Section 8. PLUMBING REQUIREMENTS. At least one flush water closet, lavatory basin and bath tub or shower, properly connected to the water and sewer system and in good working order shall be sup- plied for each ten persons residing within the rooming house. Every lavatory basin, bath tub or shower shall be supplied with hot water at ail times. Section 9. INSPECTIONS. Wherever upon inspection of any rooming house the City Inspector finds that conditions or practices exist which are in violation of any provision of this ordinance or any other ordinance of the City of Aspen, he shall give the operator notice that unless such condition or practice is corrected within a certain period (a reasonable time to be determined by the City Inspector) his license will be suspended or revoked. At the end of such period the City Inspector shall relnspect said premises and if the condition or practice has not been corrected he shall report such fact to the City Council and such a viola- tion of this ordinance shall be sufficient grounds to warrant the City Council to suspend or revoke such license. Nothing herein contained shall limit the power of city to prosecute any violators of this ordinance as hereinafter provided without giving the notice required in this section. Section 10. SLEEPING IN WALK WAYS PROHIBITED. No owner or manager shall at any time permit anyone, whether a paying guest or not, to sleep in any corridors or part of any room normally used as a walk way or hall. Section 11. PENALTY. Any person who shall violate any pro- vision of this ordinance, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $5.00 or more than $100.00 and each day that the violation occurs shall constitute a separate offense. Section lg. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance shall become effective on January 1, 1955. Section 13. UNCONSTITUTIONALITY. That if any section or a part or a portion of this ordinance is held by a court of competent juris- diction to be invalid or unconstitutional the remainder of the ordinance and the application of its provisions shall not be affected thereby. -3- Introduced, read and ordered published at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Aspen, Colorado, held on the ~ day of ATTEST: --, A.D. 1954. Mayor Finally adopted and approved this A.D. 1954. day of ~ APPROVED: STATE OF COLORADO ) COUNTY OF PITKIN ) I, Ethel M. Frost, as City Clerk of the City of Aspen, Colorado,, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing Ordinance was introduced, read in full and passed first reading at the regular meeting of the City Council held '~4 _~ . , 1954, and published in The Aspen Times, a weekly newspaper~£ gdneral ci[~ulation published at the City of Aspen, Colorado, in its issue of 11._ ~d~l~rd , and was finally adopted and approved on the ~ d~ , 1954 and was ordered pub- lished as Ordinance~l~G. ~ , {Seffies of 1954) of said City, as provided by law. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and the [ seal of the City of Aspen, Colorado, this 7~. day of {~_~ , A.D.[ (SEAL) ·