ORDINANCE NO. 727

 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 348 CONCERNING HOTELS AND ROOMING HOUSES.

 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO:

 Section 1. That Section 2 and Section 4 of Ordinance No. 348 shall be and are hereby amended, so that as amended, they shall read as follows:

 Section 2. DEFINITIONS. A public hotel, rooming house or lodging house for the purpose of this ordinance is defined to be any building, tent, structure or place where roomers or lodgers are received and housed or kept by the day, night, week, month, year for hire or compensation, and to which the general public is received, and where such hotel, house, room, tent, structure or place has two or more beds for use or hire to the general public. For the purpose of this ordinance, a tourist camp shall be considered to be a rooming house or hotel.

 Section 4. LICENSE FEES -- EXCEPTIONS. For each license issued for the running, operating or conducting of a hotel, lodging house or rooming house under this ordinance, the person securing such license shall pay to the City Treasurer the license fee therefor as in this section specified, and such payments shall be made before any license is issued. The license fee to be paid in each case is as follows: For hotel, rooming houses or lodging houses having not less than two nor more than ten beds, $10.00 per year; for hotels, rooming houses or lodging houses having more than ten beds, the sum of $25.00 per year. All said licenses shall be issued annually and shall expire December 31st of each year, and all licenses under this ordinance shall be applied for as in this ordinance prescribed.

 Section 2. The City Council hereby finds that a special emergency exists; that this ordinance is necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety and that it shall take effect upon passage.

 Introduced, passed and adopted on this 27th day of December, 1946.

/s/ Porter Carson

President of the City Council

ATTEST:

/s/ Helen C. Tomlinson

City Clerk

 I hereby certify that the foregoing emergency ordinance entitled, "AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 348 CONCERNING HOTELS AND ROOMING HOUSES," was introduced, read, passed, numbered 727 and ordered published by the unanimous vote of the members of the City Council of the City of Grand Junction, at a regular adjourned meeting of said Council held on the 27th day of December, A. D. 1946.

 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City, this 27th day of December, A. D. 1946.

/s/ Helen C. Tomlinson

City Clerk