RSA 353:3: Register, Open to Inspection.

All hotel keepers and all persons keeping public lodging houses, tourist camps, or cabins shall keep a record of the legal name of the registered guest. Such record shall at all times be open to the inspection of the sheriff or the sheriff's deputies and to any police officer. The term "public lodging house" as here used shall mean a lodging house where more than 2 rooms are habitually let for less than a week at a time for the accommodation of transients. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.