Fun stipulation

This rule was found in the rule book of the white swan hotel in Guangzhou at June 29:th, 1997:

Stipulation Issued By Guangzhou Administrative Bureau For Industry And Commerce

To safeguard the economic plan & order of the socialist market, to insure the normal accommodation conditions of the people and to abolish illegal economic activities which engage in hotels, holiday inns and other reception accommodation houses, agreed to Guangzhou Municipal Government, it is now stipulated:

  1. Any organizations or individuals, if not permitted by the Local Administrative Bureau for Industry and Commerce and if not have business licenses, are forbidden to establish any managing organizations (stores, storage rooms, centers for delivering goods, e t c) in hotels. And it is not allowed to set centers in hotels for purchasing goods materials and commodities and for peddling smuggling goods.
  2. It is forbidden to go in for all kinds of illegal economic activities in hotels, such as purchasing and reselling approving documents, bills of lading, dispatch lists and economic contracts for goods and materials.
  3. Unauthorized sales or purchases of foreign exchange and unlawfully seizing possessions of foreign exchange in whatever ways and by whatever means are prohibited in any hotels.
  4. Any citizen who knows the unlawful activities belonging to the above scope has his obligation and right to supervise or to report to the local Administrative Bureau for Industry and Commerce. Those who make meritorious deeds will receive awards.

Guangzhou Administrative Bureau for Industry And Commerce, May 15, 1985

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