It is unlawful for the keeper of any hotel, boarding house, lodging house, rooming house or motel/trailer park or other public lodging place to fail to keep a register in which such keeper shall require each guest to write his or her name and place of residence before occupying any sleeping or other room; or to fail to enter on such register opposite the name of each guest the number, letter, or other designation of the room assigned to such guest or fail to keep such register open to public inspection at all times until one year after such register shall have been filled. Such register shall be a permanently bound blank book sufficient in size to contain all the information herein provided to be placed in the same. Any person, be he the owner, proprietor, clerk or any other person having regular or temporary charge of any hotel, boarding house, lodging house, rooming house, motel, trailer park or other public lodging place, who shall violate any provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a public offense. (Prior code §12-47)