Chap. 165.—An ACT to control and regulate the keeping, maintenance and opera-
tion of tourist camps, to this end to provide for the keeping of certain records
and for the making of certain inspections, and to prescribe penalties for viola-
tions. [H B 62]

Approved March 9, 1940

1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia as follows:

Section 1. Each person who shall keep, maintain and operate in
this State any tourist camp, shall see that such tourist camp is at all
times kept in a clean, safe and sanitary condition, and upon failure
or refusal to do so he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con-
viction thereof shall be punished accordingly.

Section 2. (a) Each person who shall keep, maintain and operate
in this State any tourist camp shall keep a permanent register on
which he shall enter, or cause to be entered, the name and address of
every person furnished lodging, at or in such tourist camp, and the
license number and state of registration of the motor vehicle, if any,
being used at such time by the person furnished such lodging. If any
person who keeps, maintains and operates in this State any tourist
camp shall fail or refuse to keep the register herein provided for he
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall
be punished accordingly; he shall also be guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction thereof shall be punished accordingly if he shall
knowingly enter or allow to be entered on such register the license
number and state of registration of any motor vehicle not being used
by the person for whom registered.

(b) If any person applying for or furnished any lodging, at or
in any tourist camp shall use any false or fictitious name, or enter, or
cause to be entered, any false or fictitious name on any register herein
provided for, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished accordingly.

Section 3. (a) The register provided for in section two of this act
shall at all times be open to inspection by law enforcement officers
of this State and of the counties, cities and towns thereof.

(b) Each tourist camp in this State shall at all reasonable hours
be open to inspection by the officers and employees of the Department
of Agriculture; each such tourist camp shall also at all reasonable
hours be open to inspection by the health and sanitation officers and
the officers and employees of the department of health or health unit
of the county, city or town in which such tourist camp is located.

Section 4. As used in this act, the words ‘‘keep, maintain and
operate” also mean “keep, maintain or operate’; the words “keeps,
maintains and operates” also mean “‘keeps, maintains or operates’;
the word ‘‘person’”’ means and includes any individual, partnership,
corporation, firm or association.

Section 5. The words ‘‘tourist camp” as used in this act shall be
construed to mean any plot of land used, maintained, or held out to
the public as a place for use for camping or lodging purposes, whether
equipped with tents, tent houses, huts, cabins, or cottages, or not
so equipped, and by whatever name the same may be called, whether
any fee is charged for the use thereof or not. The words “‘tourist
camp” as used in this act shall not be construed to include the fol-
lowing:

(a) A hotel as defined in section fifteen hundred and eighty-five
of the Code of Virginia and acts amendatory thereto, or section one
hundred and eighty-one of the Tax Code, provided such hotel is
located in a city or in an incorporated town, or contains ten or more
bed-rooms in a single structure of more than one story.

(b) ‘Tourist home.
ACTS OF ASSEMBLY [va., 1940