§ 9.08.120. Minors in rented lodging quarters.  


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  • Every person in the city managing, maintaining or conducting, whether as owner, agent or employee, any apartment house, hotel, motel, tourist court, rooming house or other place or establishment where living rooms or sleeping quarters are rented, shall immediately report to the Oakland Police Department the occupancy of any room therein at any time by any person under the age of eighteen (18) years unless such person is accompanied by the parent, guardian or other person having the legal care or custody of such person under the age of eighteen (18) years.

    In any criminal prosecution or other proceeding based upon a violation of this section, proof that the owner, his or her agent or employee demanded and was shown, at the time the person under the age of eighteen (18) years first entered the place or establishment hereinabove referred to for the purposes of occupancy, bona fide documentary evidence that said person had attained the age of eighteen (18) years issued by a federal, state, county or municipal government or subdivision or agency thereof, shall be a defense.

(Prior code § 3-4.15)