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2.2 ~~ -- ---------------- - -------------- ORDINANCE NO. 8765 An Ordinance providing for• the regulation of hotels, rooming houses and lodging houses within the City of Eugene requiring permits and providing penalties and declaring an emergency. THE CITY OF EUGEIV'E DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOV~zS: Section 1. That commencing January 1, 1943, it shall be unlawful for any person to conduct, keep, manage, operate or cause to be conducted, kept, managed, or operated, either as owner, lessor, lessee, agent or attorney, any hotel, rooming house or lodging house within the corporate limits of the City of Eugene without having first obtained a permit from the Council entitling him so to do as provided in this Ordinance. Section 2. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the word "person" shall mean and include natural persons, co-partnerships, corporations and associations, and shall include per•Nons of both sexes. The word t1houset' shall mean and include hotels, rooming and lodging houses. Section 3. For the puuposes of this Ordinance, a hotel rooming house or lodging house shall be and is deemed to be any house or building containing six or more rooms vvhicri are kept and maintained for sleeping or lodging purposes and which are offered to the public for rental or• hire, either- for steady roomers or transients. Section 4. No permit shall be granted to any applicant or to any hotel, rooming house or lodging house e;xcept that the applicant shall b,e a person of good moral character and shall be qualified in all respects to operate a hotel, ro ing house, or lodging house, and in case of having operated such a house have a good record as a law abiding citizen and having operated an orderly place; and no permit shall be granted f'or the operation of any hotel, rooming house or lodging house which hotel, rooming house, or lodging house does not conform and comply with the regulations of the Ordinances of the City of Eugene generally and particularly with respect to fire hazard, the Building Code, and sanitary regulations. Section 5. ~~Jhenever an application shall be made for a permit for• the operation of a hotel, rooming house, or lodging house, the Council shall require reports from the Chief of the Fire Department, the Chief of Police and from the Chair-man of the Health Committeeof the Council as to the hotel, rooming house or lodging house complying with the regulations and ordinances of their particular departments and the Chief of Police shall make a particular examination and report both a;_: to the character of the hotel, rooming Douse, or lodging house and of the applicant witYi respect to their police record and if the Council shall be satisfied that the applicant and the hotel, rooming house, or lodging house both comply substantially with the foregoing requirements a permit shall be issued