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Housekeeping
Lists requirements for providing clean bed linens and towels. States that hote laundry facilities can only be used for cleaning linens, towels, uniforms, and aprons and that separate laundry facilities can be used for guests. Clean linens must be stored and handled so as to prevent contact with dirty linens. Laundry carts that are used for dirty linens cannot also be used for clean linens unless the cart has been cleaned between uses. Clean linen storage areas must provide protection from dust, dirt, vermin, and other contamination. Additionally, housekeeping carts must protect clean linens, single-service, and repeat use items.
Lists requirements for the cleaning and storage of utensils. Clean utensils must be protected from dirt, dust, splash, vermin, and other sources of contamination at all times and hotels must provide suitable storage locations for these items at least 6 inches above the floor. Drinking glasses or cups must be provided with sanitary bags or in individually wrapped plastic or other means of protection prior to being taken from the storage area or utensil washing area. All used and/or unwrapped glasses, in areas other than kitchenettes, and ice buckets must be removed from guest rooms when the room becomes vacant and be washed and sanitized.
Requires that all public, employee, and occupied guest rooms with toilet and bath facilities are cleaned daily. Bathroom walls, ceilings, and other surfaces must be cleaned often enough to prevent the accumulation of dust dirt, soap film, and mildew.
Innkeeper Laws
Every hotel shall maintain the physical and sanitary condition of the structure, its equipment, water supply, and human waste disposal and install and maintain smoke detector devices in each sleeping room.
Every hotel must provide itself with a safe depository for the valuable articles belonging to its guests, and must keep displayed on the inner face of the main entrance door in each sleeping room occupied by its guests or in any other conspicuous place in the sleeping room, and in the lobby of the hotel, written or printed notice to its guests that they must leave their valuables with the hotel, its clerk or agent for safekeeping in the safe depository,
Every hotel shall provide a check room or other convenient storage place for all baggage of its registered guests, those intending to become guests and others using or occupying any of the public spaces of the hotel.
Requires good and sufficient locks, latches, or bolts to all the doors and rooms used by guests.
The manager is allowed to eject or remove any guest who is intoxicated, profane, lewd, brawling, or who shall indulge in any language or conduct in such fashion as to disturb the peace and comfort of other guests, proprietor, or employees.
Landlord Tenant
Hotel, motel, and lodging arrangements are not subject to Alabama's landlord/tenant law
Hotel managers, assistant managers, desk clerks or any other person in charge of, or with authority, in a hotel has the right to remove or eject a guest from the hotel if the guest, while in the hotel or on hotel premises is intoxicated, profane, lewd, brawling, or engages in any behavior that is causing a disturbance to other guests or employees.
Housekeeping
no rules on housekeeping found
Innkeeper Laws
When the operator of a hotel or boardinghouse provides a safe or vault in which guests may deposit valuable property for safekeeping and notice of this fact is posted in three or more conspicuous places in the hotel or boardinghouse, the operator is not liable for the loss, damage, or destruction of property not deposited by a guest in the safe or vault.
An operator of a hotel or boardinghouse is not obligated to receive property on deposit for safekeeping that exceeds $1,000 in value. If property exceeding $1,000 in value is deposited in the hotel or boardinghouse safe or vault, the operator is not liable for its loss, damage, or destruction unless the operator enters into a written agreement with the guest who deposits the property. If the operator does contract with a guest for the safekeeping of property exceeding $1,000 in value, the operator is liable only if the property deposited is stolen or lost, damaged, or destroyed by the negligence of the operator or the operator's agent.
The operator of a hotel or boardinghouse is not liable for the loss, damage, or destruction of property brought to or sent into the hotel or boardinghouse by a guest unless the loss, damage, or destruction was caused by negligence of the operator or the operator's agent.
The operator of a hotel or boardinghouse may hold and store baggage or other property left behind or sent in advance for a period of four months after which time the operator may sell it at public auction. The proceeds of a sale, as provided in this section, shall be used to satisfy the hotel or boardinghouse operator's lien, pay expenses of sale and any storage costs incurred. If the hotel or boardinghouse operator does not desire to sell baggage or other property which the operator possesses, the operator may have the property delivered to a storage or warehouse company for storage, in which case the operator's liability for the safekeeping of the property terminates.
Guest Privacy
The proprietors of roadhouses, hotels, or boardinghouses located outside of incorporated cities shall each keep a register containing the name and address of each guest with the date of arrival and departure.
A person who refuses to register may not be accepted as a guest or given accommodations.
Landlord Tenant
Hotel, motel, and lodging, or other transient facilities are not subject to Alaska's landlord/tenant law
Landlord Tenant
Excludes hotels, motels, and recreational lodging from landlord/tenant law
Sick Leave PTO
Details accrual of sick leave for employees. Requires that employers with 15 or more employees provide one hour of sick leave for every 30 hours worked to a maximum of 40 hours. Employers less than 15 employers must provide one hour of sick leave for every 30 hours worked to a maximum of 24 hours.
Details how sick time can be used, including allowing employees to seek care for themselves or a family member with a physical or mental illness or to diagnose or treat a condition.
Requires employers to provide written notice of paid sick leave policies.
Housekeeping
States that it is a public nuisance dangerous to public health for hotels, tourist courts and other lodging establishments that are not kept in a clean and sanitary condition or for which suitable and adequate toilet facilities are not provided.
Innkeeper Laws
Every keeper of a hotel, inn, boarding, lodging or apartment house, or auto camp, shall post in a conspicuous place in the office or public room, and in every bedroom of the establishment, a printed copy of §§ 33-951 and 33-952, with a printed statement of charges by the day, week or month for meals, lodging or other items furnished.
An innkeeper who maintains a fireproof safe and gives notice by posting in a conspicuous place in the office or in the room of each guest that money, jewelry, documents and other articles of small size and unusual value may be deposited in the safe, is not liable for loss of or injury to any such article not deposited in the safe, which is not the result of his own act.
An innkeeper may refuse to receive for deposit from a guest articles exceeding a total value of $500, and unless otherwise agreed to in writing shall not be liable in an amount in excess of $500 for loss of or damage to property deposited by a guest in such safe unless the loss or damage is the result of the fault or negligence of the innkeeper.
The innkeeper shall not be liable for loss of or damage to merchandise samples or merchandise for sale displayed by a guest unless the guest gives prior written notice to the innkeeper of having and displaying the merchandise or merchandise samples, and the innkeeper acknowledges receipt of such notice, but in no event shall liability for such loss or damage exceed $500 unless it results from the fault or negligence of the innkeeper.
The liability of an innkeeper to a guest shall be limited to $100 for property delivered to the innkeeper to be kept in a storeroom or baggage room and to $75 dollars for property deposited in a parcel or checkroom.
A person who knowingly refuses to rent to any other person a place to be used for a dwelling for the reason that the other person has a child or children, or who advertises in connection with the rental a restriction against children, either by the display of a sign, placard, written or printed notice, or by publication thereof in a newspaper of general circulation, is guilty of a petty offense.
No person shall rent or lease his property to another in violation of a valid restrictive covenant against the sale of such property to persons who have a child or children living with them nor shall a person rent or lease his property to persons who have a child or children living with them when his property lies within a subdivision which subdivision is presently designed, advertised and used as an exclusive adult subdivision. A person who knowingly rents or leases his property in violation of the provisions of this subsection is guilty of a petty offense.
Hotel, inn, boarding house, lodging house, apartment house and auto camp keepers shall have a lien upon the baggage and other property of their guests, boarders or lodgers, brought therein by their guests, boarders or lodgers, for charges due for accommodation, board, lodging or room rent and things furnished at the request of such guests, boarders or lodgers, with the right to possession of the baggage or other property until the charges are paid.
When baggage or other property comes into the possession of a person entitled to a lien and remains unclaimed, or the charges remain unpaid for a period of four months, the person may proceed to sell the baggage or property at public auction, and from the proceeds retain the charges, storage and expense of advertising the sale.
The sale shall not be made until the expiration of four weeks from the first publication of notice of the sale, published in a newspaper once a week for four consecutive weeks. The notice shall contain a description of each piece of property, the name of the owner, if known, the name of the person holding the property, and the time and place of sale. If the indebtedness does not exceed sixty dollars, the notice may be given by posting at not less than three public places located at the place where the hotel, inn, boarding house, lodging house, apartment house or auto camp is located.
Innkeeper Laws
The liability of the keeper of any inn or hotel, whether individual, partnership, or corporation, for loss of, or injury to, personal property placed by his or her guest under his or her care, other than that described in the preceding sections, shall be that of a depository for hire, except that in case the loss or injury is caused by fire, explosion, vehicle damage, or aircraft damage not intentionally produced by the innkeeper or his or her servants, or by acts of God, the innkeeper shall not be liable, unless the loss is intentionally or negligently caused by the innkeeper or his or her servants. In no case shall liability exceed the sum of $300 for each trunk and its contents, $100 for each valise and its contents, and $25 for each box, bundle, or package and its contents, so placed under his or her care, and all other miscellaneous effects including wearing apparel and personal belongings, $100, unless he or she shall have consented in writing with the guest to assume a definite liability.
Whenever any person shall allow his or her baggage or property to remain in any inn or hotel, after leaving it as a guest, and after the relation of innkeeper and guest between the guest and the proprietors of the inn or hotel has ceased, or shall forward it to the inn or hotel before becoming a guest thereof, and it shall be received into the inn or hotel, an innkeeper may, at his or her option, hold the baggage or property at the owner's risk.
The keeper of any inn, hotel, rooming house, or boardinghouse, whether individual, partnership, corporation, or private home, shall have a lien on the baggage and other property in and about the inn, hotel, rooming house, boardinghouse, or private home belonging to or under the control of his or her guests or boarders for the proper charges due him or her from guests or boarders for the accommodation, board, and lodging, for all moneys paid for or advanced to them not to exceed the sum of $200, and for other extras that are furnished at their request. An innkeeper, hotel, rooming house, or boardinghouse keeper, or owner of a private home shall have the right to detain baggage and other property until the amount of charges is paid.
The baggage and other property shall be exempt from attachment or execution until the innkeeper's lien and the costs of satisfying it are satisfied.
The innkeeper or hotelkeeper shall retain baggage and other property upon which he or she has a lien for a period of 90 days. At the expiration of that time, if the lien is not satisfied, he or she may sell the baggage and other property at public auction, after giving 10 days' notice of the time and place of sale in a newspaper of circulation in the county where the inn or hotel is situated; and mailing a copy of the notice addressed to the guest or boarder at the place of residence registered by him or her in the register of the inn or hotel.
It shall be the duty of every hotel or innkeeper in this state to furnish clean and fresh bed linens, unused by any other person or guest since the last laundering of the bed linens, on all beds assigned to the use of any guest or patron of the inn, or hotel, and any proprietor, lessee, manager, or agent of any inn, or hotel, or clerk in it, who shall fail or refuse to comply with the foregoing provisions and requirements shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
It shall be the duty of every hotel or innkeeper in this state to properly screen with wire cloth or gauze mesh not to be more than 1/32 the doors and windows of the kitchen and dining room, and all openings therein, of the inn or hotel.
It shall be the duty of every manager or person in charge of the conduct of any hotel or inn in this state to keep toilet rooms used in connection with the inn or hotel and provided for the use of guests or patrons of the inn or hotel in a clean and sanitary condition.
Every person operating a tourist camp, motel, or auto court shall provide for the purpose of heating the individual rooms in the tourist camp, motel, or auto court stoves or heating units adequately vented to carry the products of combustion to the outside atmosphere.
Guest Privacy
Every person operating a tourist camp, hotel, or rooming house shall provide and keep a register in which shall be entered the name and address of every guest to whom accommodations are hired or given. If a guest is traveling by automobile, the license number and state designation shall be registered.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes transient occupancy in a hotel, motel, or other accommodations subject to any lodging sales tax from landlord tenant law
Housekeeping
Requires every hotel or innkeeper to provide fresh bed linens on all beds assigned to any guest or patron.
Credit Surcharge
No retailer in any sales, service, or lease transaction with a consumer may impose a surcharge on a cardholder who elects to use a credit card in lieu of payment by cash, check, or similar means.
Guest Privacy
A hotel is prohibited from disclosing a guest record without a court-issued subpoena, warrant, or order except to a peace officer.
Landlord Tenant
Gives innkeeper's the right to evict a guest if the guest refuses or fails to fully depart a guest room at or before the posted checkout time. Specifies how evictions are to take place.
There is currently no Covid-19 eviction moratorium in California
Sick Leave PTO
Grants employees who work for the same employer for 30 or more days a year the right to sick leave; details how sick leave is accrue; details when sick leave can begin to be used; details annual rollover of unused sick leave; requires employers to provide employees with written notice of the amount of sick leave or paid time off available.
Details requirements for sick leave for the purposes of organ donations or bone marrow donation.
Requires employers to keep at least three years of records documented the number of hours worked and paid sick days accrued and used by an employee.
Allows sick leave to be used to care for a family member
Housekeeping
Requires apartment houses and hotels held out for rent and furnished with a bed and bedding must be kept clean, dry, and in a sanitary condition. This includes bedding as well as other parts of the bed such as the mattress.
Maximum Guest Rate
Every hotel shall post in a conspicuous place in the office or public room, and in every bedroom, a printed copy of this section, and a statement of rate or range of rates by the day for lodging.
Guest Privacy
The guest record shall be kept on the hotel premises in the guest reception or guest check-in area or in an office adjacent to that area and maintained on location for 90 days from and after the date of the last entry in the record. An officer of the Los Angeles Police Department may request an operator consent to inspect the record.
Sick Leave PTO
These sections provide supplemental paid sick leave for Covid-19 and required that employers provide supplemental paid sick leave if an employee requested it due to Covid-19 or to care for a family member with Covid-19. This ordinance appears to have expired on December 31, 2020.
Entitles employees who work for the same employer for 30 or more days within a year to paid sick leave. Allows employees to begin using sick leave on the 90th day of their employment. Allows employee to provide 48 hours of sick leave to employees at the beginning of each 12 month period or to allow one hour of leave to be earned for every 30 hours worked.
Requires hotel employees to provide at least 96 hours of compensated hours per year of sick leave, vacation, or personal time. Provides definitions for full time vs. part time hotel employees and details how leave accrues for each. Requires that hotel workers be eligible to use accrued paid time off after the first six months of employment or consistent with company policies, whichever is sooner, and provides that unused time can carry over until a maximum of 192 hours is reached unless the employer has a more generous policy.
Sick Leave PTO
Requires that employers provide employees with at least one hour of sick leave for every 30 hours worked.
Details how sick leave can be used, including when an employee is physically or mentally unable to perform their job duties due to illness, injury, or medical condition. Also allows leave to be used for employees to care for family members with an illness or injury.
Guest Privacy
The owner, manager or person in charge of any hotel, motel, auto court, or furnished apartment house shall keep a suitable book or register cards, open to inspection by regularly employed members of a law enforcement agency, in which all occupants of hotels, motels, auto courts, and furnished apartments shall sign their names, and the number of the hotel room, motel, auto court, or furnished apartment assigned to these guests shall be indicated on the registry book or registry cards.
Sick Leave PTO
Requires one hour of sick leave to be provided for every 30 hours worked. Also allows employers to make available a lump sum of paid sick leave for any 12 month period. For employers with fewer than ten employees, there is a cap of 40 hours of accrued paid sick leave, for employers with 10 or more employees there is a cap of 72 hours of paid sick leave.
Details hw sick leave can be used, including for when an employee or a family member who is injured or ill and receiving medical car or a diagnosis. Sick leave can also be used to seek services or treatment if an employee is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
Requires the City to provide employers with a poster informing employees of their right to paid sick leave.
Requires employer to retain records documenting hours worked and sick leave taken by employees for four years.
Housekeeping
Requires that hotel operators establish, implement, and maintain written cleaning and disease prevention standards to minimize the risk of Covid-19 transmission or other contagious public health threats as they arise. Lists requirements for disinfectants and cleaning high-contact areas.
Innkeeper Laws
No operator, employee or agent of a Residential Hotel may impose or collect a charge for any person to visit a guest or occupant of the hotel. No operator, employee or agent of Residential Hotel may implement or impose any policy restricting persons from visiting guests or occupants of Residential Hotel except in accordance with the provisions of the Uniform Residential Hotel Visitor Policy or any Supplemental Visitor Policy. The provisions of this Section shall be posted on an 8-1/2 inch by 11-inch sign in the lobby of each such Residential Hotel in an area visible to guests and occupants.
Sick Leave PTO
Details how sick leave can be used, including for the employee to care for themselves or a family member with a physical or mental illness, to diagnose a condition, or obtain preventative care.
Requires that when a public health emergency is declared, employers must supplement each employee's accrued paid sick leave as necessary to ensure that employees can take paid sick leave as specified.
Requires employers to notify employees that they are entitled to paid sick leave and the when they can use paid sick leave. This can be done by providing an employee with a written notice or displaying a poster with with this information in a conspicuous and accessible location in each location where the employer's employees work.
Requires employers to retain records for two years documenting hours worked, paid sick leave accrued, and paid sick leave used.
Housekeeping
Establishes requirements for cleaning swimming areas/pools
Maximum Guest Rate
There shall be posted in a plainly legible fashion, in a conspicuous place in, or at, each room, unit, and apartment of every hotel facility, the rates at which such room is rented. Such posting shall be in the form of a sign showing the maximum amount charged for occupancy and the maximum amount per person if the rate varies with the number of occupants. The sign shall also show the amount charged for extra conveniences, more complete accommodations, or additional furnishings and shall show the dates during the year when such charges prevail.
Innkeeper Laws
Every landlord or keeper of a hotel or public inn in this state who provides in the office of his or her hotel, inn, or other convenient place a safe, vault, or other suitable receptacle, for the secure custody of money, jewelry, ornaments, or other valuable articles other than necessary baggage belonging to the guests or patrons of the hotel or public inn, and who keeps posted in a public and conspicuous place in the office, public room, and public parlors of the hotel or public inn, and upon the inside entrance door of every public sleeping room in the hotel or public inn a notice printed in English stating the fact, shall not be liable for the loss of any money, jewelry, ornaments, or other valuable articles, other than necessary baggage, sustained by the guest or patron by theft or otherwise, unless the guest or patron delivers the money, jewelry, ornaments, or other valuable articles, other than necessary baggage, to the landlord or keeper of the hotel or public inn, or person in charge of the office of the hotel or public inn, for deposit in the safe, vault, or other receptacle. The liability shall not be greater than the amount at the time of deposit declared by the guest or patron to be the value of the article deposited. No landlord or keeper of any hotel or public inn is obliged to receive property from any guest or patron for custody, exceeding in value the sum of $5,000, nor is he or she liable for any loss thereof by theft or otherwise in any sum exceeding the sum of five thousand dollars, unless the landlord or keeper of the hotel or public inn, or person in charge of the office, assumes in writing a greater liability.
The landlord or keeper of any hotel or public inn shall not be liable to any guest or patron of the hotel or public inn for the loss within his or her hotel or public inn of any article of wearing apparel or other necessary baggage belonging to any guest or patron, unless the same had been left within a room assigned to the guest or patron, or had been especially entrusted to the care or custody of the landlord or keeper of the hotel or public inn, or to an employee or servant thereof entrusted with the duty of receiving or caring for the article in the hotel or public inn.
When the landlord or keeper of any hotel or public inn provides the doors of the rooms or sleeping apartments in the hotel or public inn with locks and keys in good order and repair and the room or sleeping apartment is turned over to the possession of any guest or patron together with the key to the door thereof, the landlord or keeper of the hotel or public inn shall not be liable to any guest or patron thereof occupying the room or apartment for loss of any article of personal property left within the room or apartment by the guest or patron while in possession thereof, unless the door in the room or apartment was left locked when unoccupied, and after being locked the key thereto was delivered to the person in charge of the office of the hotel or public inn. If any article of personal property is taken by an employee or servant of the landlord or keeper of the hotel or public inn, then the provisions of this section shall not prevent the guest or patron from recovering the value of the article, not to exceed the sum of $200 for all the articles. The landlord or keeper of any hotel or public inn shall not be liable for the loss of any article left by any guest or patron in any room assigned to or occupied by the guest or patron, greater, in any event, than the sum of $200 for all articles that may be lost by the guest or patron, except by an agreement in writing made by the landlord or keeper of the hotel or public inn, or person in charge of the office, assuming a greater liability.
In case any person who has been the guest or patron of any hotel or public inn ceases to be a guest or patron and leaves with the landlord or keeper of the hotel or public inn any baggage or other personal property for safekeeping, and the landlord or keeper accepts and receives the same for safekeeping, and makes no charge for services or storage in keeping the property, then the landlord or keeper of a hotel or public inn shall be liable only as a gratuitous bailee and as such shall be liable for no sum greater than $50.
The landlord or keeper of any hotel or public inn shall not be liable for loss of or damage to the property of any guest or patron of the hotel or public inn by fire or by any unforeseen causes or by inevitable accident, unless the loss or damage occurs on account of his or her negligence or the negligence of his or her servants or employees.
Nothing shall be construed to render the landlord or keeper of a hotel or public inn in this state liable in a greater sum than the actual loss or damage sustained.
Credit Surcharge
No person may impose a surcharge on any transaction.
Sick Leave PTO
Allows sick leave to be used for organ or bone marrow donation
Requires sick leave to be provided to service workers and details how leave can be accrued
Allows paid or unpaid leave to be taken for an employee who is a victim of domestic violence
Requires employers to provide service employees with notice of their entitlement to sick leave, the amount of sick leave provided, adn when sick leave can be used at the time of hiring.
Requires employers to advise employees in writing, at the time of hiring, information about sick leave
Details permitted uses of sick leave
Allows sick leave to be donated
Details requirements for family and medical leave
Housekeeping
Requires that all towels provided by any hotel be stored in an area that is easily accessible to guests and that guests are provided with a sufficient number of towels. Individual towels must be arrange so that users can pull out a clean portion of the towel.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes hotels, motels, and similar lodgings from landlord/tenant law.
Sick Leave PTO
Allows employers to require that paid time off be used before accessing family and medical leave benefits
Innkeeper Laws
Whenever the proprietor of any hotel, inn or boardinghouse provides a good, sufficient and secure safe or vault in the office or other convenient place in such hotel, inn or boardinghouse for the safe keeping of any money, goods, jewelry and valuables belonging to the guests and boarders of such hotel, inn or boardinghouse, and notifies the guests and boarders thereof, by placing in every lodging room and other conspicuous places printed cards or notices stating the fact that such safe or vault is provided in which such goods, jewelry and valuables may be deposited and that the proprietor or proprietors thereof will not be responsible for such money, goods, jewelry and valuables unless deposited in such safe or vault, and if such guest or boarder neglects to deposit such money, goods, jewelry or valuables in such safe or vault, the proprietor shall not be liable for any loss of such money, goods, jewelry or valuables sustained by such guest, by theft or otherwise.
Sick Leave PTO
Details requirements for employer provided sick leave based on the number of employees they have; details when paid leave can be used.
Allows employers to require certification for paid leave if an employee is out for three or more consecutive days
Requires employers to keep records of hours work and paid leave taken by employees for at least three years or the prevailing federal standard of time at the time the record is created.
Allows medical leave of up to 16 workweeks over any 24 month period to be taken by employees who are unable to perform their job functions due to a serious health condition
Details when employees can take family leave.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes transient occupancy in a hotel, condominium, motel, roominghouse, or similar public lodging, or transient occupancy in a mobile home park from landlord/tenant law.
Allows hotel managers to remove or cause to be removed guests who illegally possess or distribute controlled substances, is intoxicated or disorderly, is disturbing other guests, fails to make payment, or fails to check-out on-time. Also allows hotel managers to call law enforcement for assistance of removing an individual who is illegally on the premises.
Housekeeping
Requires that lodging establishments be supplied with potable water and adequate sanitary facilities for guests, such as showers, handwash basins, toilets, and bidets
Innkeeper Laws
The operator of a public lodging establishment is not under any obligation to accept for safekeeping any moneys, securities, jewelry, or precious stones of any kind belonging to any guest, and, if such are accepted for safekeeping, the operator is not liable for the loss thereof unless such loss was the proximate result of fault or negligence of the operator. However, the liability of the operator shall be limited to $1,000 for such loss, if the public lodging establishment gave a receipt for the property (stating the value) on a form which stated, in type large enough to be clearly noticeable, that the public lodging establishment was not liable for any loss exceeding $1,000 and was only liable for that amount if the loss was the proximate result of fault or negligence of the operator.
The operator of a public lodging establishment is not liable or responsible to any guest for the loss of wearing apparel, goods, or other property, except as provided in subsection (1), unless such loss occurred as the proximate result of fault or negligence of such operator, and, in case of fault or negligence, the operator is not liable for a greater sum than $500, unless the guest, prior to the loss or damage, files with the operator an inventory of the guest's effects and the value thereof and the operator is given the opportunity to inspect such effects and check them against such inventory. The operator of a public lodging establishment is not liable or responsible to any guest for the loss of effects listed in such inventory in a total amount exceeding $1,000.
The operator of a public lodging establishment or public food service establishment may refuse accommodations or service to any person whose conduct on the premises of the establishment displays intoxication, profanity, lewdness, or brawling; who indulges in language or conduct such as to disturb the peace or comfort of other guests; who engages in illegal or disorderly conduct; who illegally possesses or deals in controlled substances; or whose conduct constitutes a nuisance. Such refusal may not be based upon race, creed, color, sex, physical disability, or national origin.
An operator may take a person into custody and detain that person in a reasonable manner and for a reasonable time if the operator has probable cause to believe that the person was engaging in disorderly conduct on the premises of the licensed establishment and that such conduct was creating a threat to the life or safety of the person or others. The operator shall call a law enforcement officer to the scene immediately after detaining a person under this subsection.
If, upon a reasonable determination by an operator of a public lodging establishment, a guest has accumulated a large outstanding account at such establishment, the operator may lock the guest out of the guest's rental unit for the purpose of requiring the guest to confront the operator and arrange for payment on the account. Such arrangement must be in writing, and a copy must be furnished to the guest.
Once the guest has confronted the operator and made arrangements for payment on the account, the operator shall provide the guest with unrestricted access to the guest's rental unit.
The operator shall at all times permit the guest to remove from the rental unit any items of personal property essential to the health of the guest.
If the guest of a public lodging establishment vacates the premises without notice to the operator and the operator reasonably believes the guest does not intend to satisfy the outstanding account, the operator may recover the premises. Upon recovery of the premises, the operator shall make an itemized inventory of any property belonging to the guest and store such property until a settlement or a final court judgment is obtained on the guest's outstanding account. Such inventory shall be conducted by the operator and at least one other person who is not an agent of the operator.
Credit Surcharge
A seller or lessor in a sales or lease transaction may not impose a surcharge on the buyer or lessee for electing to use a credit card in lieu of payment by cash, check, or similar means, if the seller or lessor accepts payment by credit card. A surcharge is any additional amount imposed at the time of a sale or lease transaction by the seller or lessor that increases the charge to the buyer or lessee for the privilege of using a credit card to make payment. Charges imposed pursuant to approved state or federal tariffs are not considered to be a surcharge, and charges made under such tariffs are exempt from this section. This section does not apply to the offering of a discount for the purpose of inducing payment by cash, check, or other means not involving the use of a credit card, if the discount is offered to all prospective customers.
The division shall consider it an unethical business practice for any establishment to engage in, or knowingly permit anyone on the licensed premises to engage in, any illegal, unfair or deceptive act. Such acts include imposition of a charge separate and apart from, or in addition to, the room rate, that is not disclosed in writing to the guest at the time of check-in; failing to disclose that additional telephone surcharges are being applied which exceed the user-line charges of the local telephone company; or depriving an individual or party of accommodations at a public lodging establishment after having prepaid reservations for said accommodations. To avoid depriving a guest of a prepaid reservation for accommodations at a public lodging establishment the establishment shall make every effort to find other comparable accommodations; and refund all monies deposited for such reservation whether deposited with the public lodging establishment, or a travel or booking agent.
Housekeeping
Lists requirements for toilet/bathroom facilities in tourist accommodations (defined as, "any facility consisting of two or more rooms or dwelling units providing lodging and other accommodations to the general public, such as tourist courts, tourist cottages, tourist homes, trailer parks, trailer courts, motels, motor hotels, hotels, and any similar place by whatever name called and any food, beverage, laundry, recreational or other facilities or establishments operated in conjunction therewith."). Toilet facilities must contain individually wrapped soap or liquid soap, clean towels, and toilet paper. Toilet facilities must be kept clean and in good repair.
Lists requirements for garbage disposal in tourist accommodations.
Lists requirements for the arrangement of housekeeper cart. Carts must be arranged so that clean replacement supplies and linens do not come into contact with used supplies and linens. Also requires that any spray bottles used for cleaning rooms are labeled.
Requires every hotel or innkeeper to provide clean, unused bed linens that have not been used by any other person since their last laundering
Closets and restrooms used in inns or hotels must be kept in clean and sanitary conditions
Innkeeper Laws
An innkeeper shall exercise extraordinary diligence in preserving the property entrusted to his care by his guests, provided that, if the loss of such entrusted property occurs through theft and if the guest has complied with all reasonable rules of the inn, the innkeeper shall be liable as an insurer of the stolen property.
Sick Leave PTO
An employer that provides sick leave must allow sick leave to be used to care for an immediate family member, however, employers are not required to offer sick leave or allow employees to use more than five days of sick leave per calendar year to care for an immediate family member.
Housekeeping
hotel, rooming house, and boarding house operators are responsible for the sanitary maintenance of the building
Guest Privacy
Every keeper covered by this chapter shall keep and maintain or cause to be maintained a register in which shall be inscribed the name of each and every guest renting or occupying a bedroom or apartment in such hotel. Such register shall be preserved for a period of not less than six months from the date of departure.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes transient occupancy on a day-to-day basis in a hotel or motel from landlord tenant law.
Notes that any guest who intentionally continues to occupy a guest room beyond their scheduled departure and without prior written approval is a trespasser.
Maximum Guest Rate
The keeper of every hotel shall post in a conspicuous place in the office or public room and in every bedroom of the hotel a printed copy of sections 486K-1 to 486K-8 and a statement of charge or rate of charges by the day for lodging. No charge or sum shall be collected or received by any keeper for any service not actually rendered, or for any item not actually delivered or contracted for, or for any greater or other sum than the keeper is entitled to by the general rules and regulations of the hotel. For any intentional violation of this or any provision herein contained, the offender shall forfeit to the injured party three times the amount of the sum charged in excess of what the offender is entitled to.
Innkeeper Laws
All hotelkeepers shall have a lien on all baggage and other property in the possession of the hotel belonging to guests at the hotel, for the amount of their proper charges against guests for the hire of rooms or board or other services or accommodation in the hotel, and shall have the right, without the process of law, to retain the same until the amount of indebtedness is discharged. All parties indebted for rooms or board in the hotel may be summarily ejected by the keeper thereof from the premises upon the keeper giving to the parties so indebted a written notice of the amount of indebtedness and the keeper's demand for the same, unless the parties shall have entered into an agreement with the keeper for a mode and manner of payment for room or board other than that announced by notice in the hotel, the right of summary ejectment to be without prejudice to the lien on the guest's baggage or other property.
If the keeper of any hotel provides a safe or vault in its office at the hotel for the safekeeping of any valuables belonging to the guests of the hotel, and prominently posts a notice in the room or rooms occupied by the guest stating that a safe or vault is provided in which valuables may be deposited and if any guest neglects to deliver valuables to the person in charge of the safe or vault, the keeper of the hotel shall not be liable in any sum for any loss of valuables sustained by the guest by theft or otherwise unless the loss is due to the negligence or fault of the keeper of the hotel. If the guest delivers valuables to the person in charge of the office for deposit in the safe or vault, the keeper shall not be liable for any loss sustained by the guest by theft or otherwise in any sum exceeding $500; provided that the keeper's liability is limited to $500 only if the keeper gives a receipt for the valuables on a form which states, in type large enough to be clearly noticeable, that the keeper is not liable for any loss exceeding $500 except by special agreement in writing in which the keeper agrees to accept liability for losses in excess of $500; and the loss is not due to the negligence or fault of the keeper of the hotel.
The keeper may accept liability for losses in excess of $500 by special agreement in writing between a guest and the keeper or the keeper's duly authorized representative.
If the keeper of a hotel provides a security box in the room of any guest and prominently posts a notice stating that a security box is provided in which valuables may be deposited and explains the liability for losses therefrom, the keeper of the hotel shall not be liable in any sum for any loss sustained by the guest unless the loss is due to the negligence or fault of the keeper of the hotel.
Guest Privacy
Every hotel shall keep a record of the arrival and departure of its guests in such a manner that the record will be permanent for at least one year from the date of departure.
Landlord Tenant
Idaho does not explicitly include or exclude hotels and motels from landlord tenant or other property laws
Gives hotelkeepers the right to evict guests who fail to pay their bill when due, for disorderly conduct that is disturbing to guests, is under the influence of alcohol or drugs, who seek to use the hotel for unlawful purposes, damages or damages hotel property
Maximum Guest Rate
In each hotel there shall be posted in a plainly legible fashion, in a conspicuous place in each sleeping room, the maximum rates at which such room is rented; a copy of section 18-2405, Idaho Code; and a copy of section 39-1804, Idaho Code. In each hotel there shall be posted a copy of this chapter in a plainly legible fashion, in at least two conspicuous places.
Innkeeper Laws
The hotelkeeper is under no obligation to accept for safekeeping any moneys, securities, jewelry, or precious stones of any kind belonging to any guest, and, if such are accepted for safekeeping, he shall not be liable for the loss thereof unless such loss is the proximate result of fault or negligence of the hotelkeeper. The liability, if any, of the hotelkeeper to a guest shall be limited to $1,000 for such loss, or such higher amount as the hotelkeeper may agree in writing to assume, if the hotel has given a receipt for the property to the guest, stating the value of the property accepted for safekeeping, on a form which states, in type large enough to be clearly noticeable, that the hotel is not liable for any loss exceeding $1,000, or such higher amount as the hotelkeeper may agree in writing to assume, and is only liable for that amount if the loss is the proximate result of fault or negligence of the hotelkeeper.
The hotelkeeper shall not be liable or responsible to any guest for the loss of wearing apparel, goods, or other property, except as provided in subsection (1) of this section, unless such loss occurred as the proximate result of fault or negligence of such hotelkeeper. In case of such fault or negligence, the hotelkeeper shall not be liable for a sum greater than $500 unless prior to the loss or damage the guest files with the hotelkeeper an inventory of his effects and the value thereof and the hotelkeeper is given the opportunity to inspect such effects and check them against such inventory. The hotelkeeper shall not be liable or responsible to any guest for the loss of effects listed in such inventory in a total amount exceeding $1,000 or such higher amount as the hotelkeeper may agree in writing to assume.
A hotelkeeper shall have the right to evict a guest who has failed to pay his hotel bill when due. Before such eviction may occur, demand for payment of the bill must be made and the guest must be requested to leave if the bill is not paid. If the guest fails to pay the bill after such demand, the hotelkeeper may evict such guest by locking the door to his room, removing said guest's baggage and other personal property, or by any other peaceful means. The hotel shall have the right to hold said baggage and other property as hereinafter provided.
A hotelkeeper also shall have the right to evict a person, whether or not such person is [a] guest of the hotel, who is under the influence of alcohol, drugs or any other intoxicating substances; is disorderly so as to disturb the peace of other guests; seeks to use the hotel for any unlawful purpose; seeks to bring property into the hotel which may be dangerous to other persons (such as firearms, explosives or hazardous or toxic substances) or the possession of which by such person is unlawful; destroys, damages or defaces property of the hotel or its guests or threatens to do so; would cause or permit any hotel room to exceed its maximum allowable occupancy as established by the hotelkeeper; or refuses to abide by reasonable standards or policies established by the hotelkeeper for operation and management of the hotel.
A hotelkeeper shall not be required to provide accommodations, facilities or privileges of a hotel to any person who:
(1) Is unwilling or unable to pay for the accommodations and services of the hotel. A hotelkeeper may require a prospective guest to demonstrate the ability to pay for the accommodations and services, including a damage deposit in a reasonable amount, by cash or acceptable credit card;
(2) The hotelkeeper reasonably believes to be under the influence of alcohol, drugs or any other intoxicating substances or who is disorderly so as to disturb the peace of other guests;
(3) The hotelkeeper reasonably believes seeks to use the hotel for any unlawful purpose;
(4) The hotelkeeper reasonably believes seeks to bring property into the hotel which may be dangerous to other persons (such as firearms, explosives or hazardous or toxic substances) or the possession of which by such person is unlawful;
(5) Destroys, damages or defaces property of the hotel or its guests or threatens to do so;
(6) Is under 18 years of age and unaccompanied by his parent or guardian. A hotelkeeper may condition the provision of accommodations, facilities or privileges of a hotel to persons under the age of 18 years by requiring the parent or guardian to agree in writing to accept liability for the costs of the accommodations, including the cost of the room, taxes, other charges and any damages to the hotel caused by such person or his invitees; and to provide an acceptable credit card or cash deposit sufficient to cover such costs;
(7) Would cause or permit any hotel room to exceed its maximum allowable occupancy as established by the hotelkeeper; or
(8) Refuses to abide by reasonable standards or policies established by the hotelkeeper for operation and management of the hotel.
Innkeeper Laws
The owner or keeper of such hotel, apartment hotel, residential hotel, motel, motor court, inn, boarding or lodging house shall post a copy of this law in conspicuous places upon the premises.
A proprietor or manager of a hotel may refuse to admit or refuse service or accommodations to a person who while on the premises of the hotel, destroys or threatens to destroy hotel property or causes or threatens to cause a public disturbance; or is seeking accommodations for the unlawful possession or use of controlled substances or the use of the premises for the consumption of alcoholic liquor by a person under the age of 21.
A proprietor or manager of a hotel may remove or cause to be removed from a hotel a guest or other person who refuses to pay for accommodations or services; while on the premises of the hotel, destroys or threatens to destroy hotel property, verbally or physically threatens employees or guests, or causes or threatens to cause a public disturbance; is using the premises for the unlawful possession or use of controlled substances by the person or using the premises for the consumption of alcoholic liquor by a person under the age of 21 years of age; violates any federal, State, or local laws, ordinances, or rules relating to the hotel; violates a rule of the hotel that is clearly and conspicuously posted at or near the front desk or posted online where the guest can view it before making a reservation at the hotel; or uses verbally abusive language toward the hotel's employees or guests. As used in this Section, “verbally abusive language” means any language that would reasonably be found to be threatening or demeaning.
If the guest has paid in advance, the proprietor or manager of a hotel shall tender to the guest any unused portion of the advance payment at the time of removal.
Nothing in this Section shall be used as a pretext to discriminate against a guest on the basis of characteristics protected under local, State, or federal antidiscrimination laws. This Section does not limit any rights or protections that a guest or other person may have under local, State, or federal antidiscrimination or civil rights laws.
A proprietor or manager of a hotel shall not eject a guest while the area the hotel is located in is under a severe weather warning without first giving a verbal or written warning to the guest that the guest may be ejected for the guest's behavior. As used in this subsection, “severe weather warning” means a tornado warning, severe thunderstorm warning, flash flood warning, or winter storm warning issued by the National Weather Service.
AI in Hiring
Prohibits an employer from using AI for hiring or employment decisions that has the effect of subjecting employees to racial discrimination, or uses zip codes as a proxy for protected classes.
Requires disclosure of AI for video interviews, protects privacy of videos, require reporting of race and ethnicity data for applicants chosen for in-person interviews.
Landlord Tenant
Illinois law does not provide an exemption for hotels in landlord tenant law
Details when an eviction action can be maintained. This section doesn't explicitly include or exclude hotels.
Sick Leave PTO
Allows employees to use sick leave benefits provided by an employer to care for a child, stepchild, spouse, domestic partner, sibling, parent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, or stepparent on the same terms in which they would use sick leave for themselves. An employer may limit the use of sick leave benefits to an amount that is not less than the personal sick leave that would be earned during 6 months of the employee's current rate of entitlement.
Requires all employees are entitled to a maximum of 2 weeks/10 work days of unpaid bereavement leave due to the death of a child. Beginning January 1, 2023, bereavement leave can also be used for a miscarriage, unsuccessful IVF or other assisted reproductive technology procedure, failed adoption match/unfinalized adoptions, failed surrogacy agreements, a diagnosis that negatively impacts pregnancy or fertility, or a stillbirth.
Employees who are victims of domestic violence, sexual violence, gender violence, or any other crime of violence may take unpaid leave.
Landlord Tenant
Landlord tenant law in Chicago does not apply to hotels unless the tenant occupies a room or unit for 32 or more continuous days and pays a monthly rent.
Landlords can evict tenants for unpaid rent if the rent has not been paid within five days of written notice of the intention to terminate the rental agreement if rent isn't paid, material noncompliance by a tenant with the rental agreement, failure to maintain the unit, or disturbing others.
Sick Leave PTO
Any employee who works at least 80 hours for an employer within any 120 period is eligible for sick leave For every 40 hours worked, sick leave accrues and is capped at 40 hours of paid sick leave per 12-month period. Employees can use sick leave for themselves, an ill or injured family member, or if the employee or a member of their family is a victim of domestic violence.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes transient occupancy in a hotel, motel, or other lodging from landlord tenant law.
Housekeeping
Freshly laundered sheets must be provided after the departure of each guest
Innkeeper Laws
The proprietor or manager of a hotel, an apartment hotel, or an inn provides a safe in a convenient place for the safekeeping of any money, jewels, ornaments, furs, bank notes, bonds, negotiable security, or other valuable papers, precious stones, railroad tickets, articles of silver or gold, or other valuable property of small compass belonging to or brought in by the guests of the hotel, apartment hotel, or inn; the proprietor or manager notifies the guests by posting in a public and conspicuous place and manner at the place of registration of the hotel, apartment hotel, or inn or in each guest room a notice stating that a safe place is provided in which the articles may be deposited; and the guest neglects or fails to deliver the guest's property to the person in charge of the office for deposit in the safe; the hotel, apartment hotel, or inn and proprietor or manager are not liable for any loss of or damage to the property sustained by the guest or other owner of the property, whether the loss or damage is occasioned by the neglect of the proprietor or manager or of the proprietor's or manager's agents or otherwise.
If a guest delivers property to the person in charge of the office for deposit in a safe, the hotel, apartment hotel, or inn and its manager or proprietor are not liable for the loss or damage of the property sustained by the guest or other owner of the property in any amount exceeding $600, whether the loss or damage is occasioned by the negligence of the proprietor or manager or by the proprietor's or manager's agents or otherwise, notwithstanding that the property may be of greater value, unless the proprietor or manager has entered into a special agreement in writing agreeing to assume additional liability.
Guest Privacy
A hotel shall keep and maintain for a period of three years, a guest register which shall show the name, residence, date of arrival, and date of departure of each individual renting or leasing a room, accommodations, or facilities of the hotel.
Each individual renting or leasing a room, accommodations, or facilities of the hotel shall register, and may be required by the owner or operator of the hotel to show proof of identity by producing a valid driver's license, or other identification satisfactory to the owner or operator. The identification shall have a photograph of the individual and include the name and residence of the individual. If the individual is a minor, the owner or operator may also require a parent or guardian of the minor to register.
The guest register may be kept and maintained by recording, copying, or reproducing the register by any photographic, photostatic, microfilm, microcard, miniature photographic, electronic imaging, electronic data processing, or other process which accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for accurately and legibly reproducing an unaltered image or reproduction of the original.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes transient occupancy in a hotel, motel or other similar lodgings from landlord tenant law
Allows hotel managers to remove a person from the hotel for nonpayment of charges, being visibly intoxicated or disorderly, the individual is reasonably believed to be using the premises for an unlawful purpose, the individual is reasonably believed to have brought a dangerous item such as a firearm or explosive on the premises, the individual has violated the law, or the individual has violated hotel rules.
Maximum Guest Rate
A complete list of rooms by number together with the number of the floor and the rate per day per person for each room shall be kept continuously and conspicuously posted on the wall near the office in the lobby of a hotel in such a way as to be accessible to the public without request to the management. The rate per day per person for each room shall also be posted in the same manner in each room. No amount greater than the one posted shall be charged.
The rates posted under section 137C.23 shall not be increased until sixty days' notice of the proposed increase has been given to the regulatory authority.
Innkeeper Laws
A hotelkeeper shall have a lien upon the baggage of any guest, which may be in that hotel, for the accommodations and keep of said guest, the money paid for or advanced to said guest, the extras and other things furnished said guest.
A person operating a hotel has the right to refuse or deny the use of a room, accommodations, facilities, or other privileges of the hotel to any of the following:
An individual unwilling or unable to pay for the room, accommodations, facilities, or other privileges of the hotel.
An individual who is visibly publicly intoxicated or under the influence of alcohol or some other illegal drug, or who is disorderly so as to create a public nuisance.
An individual the hotel operator reasonably believes is seeking to use a room, accommodations, facilities, or other privileges of the hotel for an unlawful purpose.
An individual the hotel operator reasonably believes is bringing in anything which may create an unreasonable danger or risk to other persons, including but not limited to firearms or explosives.
An individual whose use of the room, accommodations, facilities, or other privileges of the hotel would result in a violation of the maximum capacity of such hotel.
A hotel operator who reasonably refuses or denies the use of a room, accommodations, facilities, or other privileges of the hotel pursuant to this section is not subject to any civil or criminal action or any fine or other penalty, unless the refusal or denial is a violation of state or federal law.
The hotel operator has the right to require a person seeking the use of a room, accommodations, facilities, or other privileges of the hotel to demonstrate the ability to pay for such use by cash, credit card, or approved check. The hotel operator may require the parent or guardian of a minor to do all of the following:
Accept in writing the liability for the cost of the room, accommodations, facilities, or other privileges of the hotel used by the minor, and for the cost of any damages to the room, furnishings in the room, or other facilities of the hotel caused by the minor while the minor is using the room, accommodations, facilities, or other privileges of the hotel.
Provide the hotel operator with one of the following:
(a) the authority to charge any amount due for the cost of the room, accommodations, facilities, or other privileges of the hotel used by the minor, and for the cost of any damages to the room, furnishings in the room, or other facilities of the hotel caused by the minor while the minor is using the room, accommodations, facilities, or other privileges of the hotel to a credit card as defined in section 537.1301, subsection 17.
(b) An advance cash payment sufficient to cover the cost of the room, accommodations, facilities, or other privileges of the hotel used by the minor, and a reasonable amount as a deposit toward the cost of any damages to the room, furnishings in the room, or other facilities of the hotel caused by the minor while the minor is using the room, accommodations, facilities, or other privileges of the hotel. A cash deposit for any damages required by the hotel operator shall be refunded to the extent not used to cover the cost of any such damages as determined by the hotel operator following an inspection of the room, accommodations, or facilities of the hotel used by the minor at the end of the minor's stay.
An owner or operator of a hotel may eject a person from the hotel for any of the following reasons:
1. Nonpayment of charges incurred by the individual renting or leasing a room, accommodations, or facilities of the hotel when the charges are due and owing.
2. The individual renting or leasing a room, accommodations, or facilities of the hotel is visibly intoxicated, or is disorderly so as to create a public nuisance.
3. The owner or operator reasonably believes that the individual is using the premises for an unlawful purpose including, but not limited to, the unlawful use or possession of controlled substances or the use of the premises for the consumption of alcohol by an individual in violation of section 123.47.
4. The owner or operator reasonably believes that the individual has brought anything into the hotel which may create an unreasonable danger or risk to other persons, including but not limited to firearms or explosives.
5. The individual is in violation of any federal, state, or local laws or regulations relating to the hotel.
6. The individual is in violation of any rule of the hotel which is posted as provided in section 137C.25D.
An owner or operator of a hotel shall post a copy of sections 137C.25 through 137C.25C, in addition to any rules established by the owner or operator of the hotel, in a conspicuous place at or near the guest registration desk and in each room of the hotel.
Credit Surcharge
No person or retailer doing business in any sales, service or lease transaction with a customer may impose a surcharge on a customer who elects to use a credit card as payment unless such person or retailer discloses the amount of such a surcharge through a clear and conspicuous notice to the customer at the point of entry or the point of sale and in advance of such transaction.
Guest Privacy
Every guest of the hotel may be required by the innkeeper to produce a valid identification satisfactory to the innkeeper, containing a photograph of the guest and setting forth the name, age and residence of the guest. If the guest is a minor, the innkeeper may also require a parent of such guest to register and to accept, in writing, liability for the guest's room costs, taxes and all charges by such minor and any damages to the guest room, hotel, its furnishings and lost revenue caused by such minor while a guest at the hotel.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes transient occupancy in a hotel, motel or rooming house from landlord/tenant law
Allows hotel managers to remove a person from the hotel for nonpayment of charges, being visibly intoxicated or disorderly, the individual is reasonably believed to be using the premises for an unlawful purpose, the individual is reasonably believed to have brought a dangerous item into the hotel, is not a registered guest of the hotel, the person has exceeded the occupancy limits for their room, the room was obtained under false pretenses, the individual is a minor without the supervision of the adult who obtained the accommodation, the person has violated the law, or the person has violated a hotel rule.
Innkeeper Laws
No hotel or motel keeper in this state shall be liable for the loss of, or damage to, any baggage, luggage, wearing apparel, personal effects or other like property of a guest, lodger or boarder in an amount in excess of $250, unless the same has actually been delivered by such guest, lodger or boarder, to such hotel or motel keeper, or his authorized agent or clerk in the registration office of such hotel, or motel for safekeeping, in which event a receipt for each such article shall thereupon issue or in lieu thereof such hotel or motel keeper shall assume liability in a larger amount with reference to such property.
No hotel or motel keeper in this state shall be liable for the loss of, or damage to, merchandise for sale or samples belonging to a guest, lodger or boarder unless the guest, lodger or boarder upon entering the hotel or motel, shall give notice of having merchandise for sale or samples in his possession, together with an itemized list of such property, to the hotel or motel keeper, or his authorized agent or clerk in the registration office of the hotel or motel. No hotel or motel keeper shall be liable for any loss of such property designated in this subsection (b), after notice and itemized statement having been given and delivered as aforesaid, in an amount in excess of $250, unless such hotel or motel keeper by specific agreement in writing, individually, or by an authorized agent or clerk in charge of the registration office of the hotel or motel, shall voluntarily assume liability for a larger amount with reference to such property. The hotel or motel keeper shall not be compelled to receive such guests, lodgers or boarders with merchandise for sale or samples.
With respect to money, jewelry, diamonds, or other valuable stones, articles of silver and gold, tickets, certificates or other like valuables, no hotel or motel keeper shall be liable for the loss thereof or damage thereto unless the same, together with an itemized list thereof, has actually been delivered by such guest, lodger or boarder, to such hotel or motel keeper, or his authorized agent or clerk in the registration office of such hotel or motel, and the receipt thereof acknowledged by the delivery to such guest or boarder of a claim check or receipt of the hotel or motel for such property. No hotel or motel keeper shall be liable for the loss of any property specified in this paragraph (c), after delivery of such property and the receipt therefor as aforesaid, in an amount in excess of $250, unless such hotel or motel keeper by a specific agreement in writing individually, or by an authorized agent or clerk in charge of the registration office of such hotel or motel, shall voluntarily assume liability in a larger amount in reference to such property.
No hotel or motel keeper in this state shall be liable for the loss of, or damage to, any other property, in an amount in excess of $250, unless such hotel or motel keeper by a specific agreement in writing, individually, or by an authorized agent or clerk in charge of the registration office of such hotel or motel, shall voluntarily assume liability in a larger amount with reference to any such property.
A complete copy of this act and the act of which this act is amendatory shall be posted in every guest room of every hotel or motel.
An innkeeper shall have the right to refuse or deny any accommodations to anyone unwilling or unable to pay, a minor, a person engaged in disorderly conduct, or a person who is on record for being ejected.
A person may be ejected for nonpayment, disorderly conduct, using the premises for an unlawful act, bringing property on the premises that is dangerous, not being a registered guest, exceeding occupancy limitations, accommodation was obtained under false pretenses, the person is a minor not under the supervision of the adult who obtained the accomodation, the person has vioalted laws, or has violated any conspicuous rule of the hotel.
The innkeeper shall post a copy of this act together with all rules of the lodging establishment, in a conspicuous place at or near the guest registration desk or inside each guest room at the hotel.
Innkeeper Laws
The proprietor of any hotel may provide a safe in a convenient place, for the safekeeping of money, jewelry, furs, securities or other valuable papers or other valuable property of small compass belonging to the guests, and post a copy of this section in a public and conspicuous place and manner in the office, public rooms and public parlors of the hotel, notifying the guests that a safe is provided in which such property may be deposited. Then, if the guests neglect to deliver such property to the person in charge of the office for deposit in the safe, the proprietor shall not be liable for any loss of such property sustained by the guests by negligence of the proprietor or hotel employees, or by fire, theft, burglary or any other cause.
However, no proprietor of any hotel shall be obligated to receive property on deposit for safekeeping exceeding $300 in value. If guests deliver property of a greater value to the person in charge of the office for deposit in the safe, the proprietor shall not be liable for the loss or damage thereof sustained in any sum exceeding $300, notwithstanding the property may be of greater value, unless the guests make a special agreement in writing with the proprietor.
Except as provided in KRS 306.020:
(a) The proprietor of a hotel shall not be liable in excess of one hundred dollars ($100) for the loss or damage to personal property brought into the hotel by guests, unless the loss or damage is occasioned by the negligence of the proprietor or hotel agents or employees.
(b) He shall not be liable for the loss or damage to any merchandise samples or merchandise for sale unless the guest has given prior written notice of having the merchandise in his possession, and its value, and obtained written acknowledgement of the receipt of such notice.
(c) In no event shall the liability provided for in this subsection exceed two hundred dollars ($200), unless the proprietor has contracted in writing with the guest to assume a greater liability.
The hotel proprietor shall not in any event be liable for the loss or damage to property brought into the hotel by guests caused by fire, unless occasioned by negligence of the proprietor or hotel agents or employees.
After a guest departs and ceases to be a guest, if any property left by him is lost or damaged, the liability of the proprietor shall be that of a gratuitous bailee and limited to not more than $100.
If property is lost or destroyed while in transport to or from a hotel on behalf of a guest, the liability of the proprietor shall be limited to $100, unless the guest has given prior written notice of the value thereof and obtained written acknowledgment of the receipt of such notice. In no event shall such liability exceed $200, unless the proprietor has contracted in writing with the guest to assume a greater liability.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes transient occupancy in a hotel or motel from landlord tenant law
Sick Leave PTO
Requires employees to provide leave for adoptive parents after receiving a written request from an employee.
Housekeeping
Establishes regulations for hotels and motels including standards for bedding, ice buckets, water supply, and sewage and waste disposal
Landlord Tenant
Prohibits an individual from staying in a hotel where their term ha expired or they have been given written notice of their agreed departure date and checkout time or been given at least two hours verbal notice to leave the room
Allows room occupants and their personal belongings to be removed if sufficient notice has been provided.
Housekeeping
Requires every hotel, motel, or innkeeper to provide fresh bed linens for each guest
Requires every manager or person in charge of any hotel, motel, or inn to keep any closets, bathrooms, and toilet facilities provided for guests in a clean and sanitary condition.
Maximum Guest Rate
Rate schedules setting forth room charges and any surcharges for hotels shall be posted or disclosed in all hotels as required by applicable local ordinances.
Each operator of a hotel shall comply with applicable local ordinances relating to furnishing a schedule of charges for the rental or use of hotel rooms and shall include therein surcharges in effect for the following year, a schedule of binding rates, applicable surcharges and length-of-stay requirements.
An operator of a hotel shall place line itemization of any hotel assessment for which the operator is responsible on the guest folio as a charge to the guest immediately after, or included in, the itemization of hotel tax and occupancy tax. All hotel assessments to be passed through to guests as surcharges shall be disclosed on all information or communication platforms of the hotel in the same manner as are other surcharges and hotel and occupancy taxes as required by applicable laws and regulations.
Innkeeper Laws
No person shall:
(1) Obtain accommodations at any hotel, inn, boarding house or restaurant or procure food without paying therefor, with intent to defraud, except when credit is given by express agreement.
(2) Obtain credit with intent to defraud at any hotel, inn, boarding house or restaurant for food or accommodations by a false showing of baggage or effects.
(3) Remove or cause to be removed any baggage or effects from any hotel, inn, boarding house or restaurant without the consent of the owner or manager before having paid the proper charges due for food or accommodations.
(4) Draw, endorse, utter, or deliver to any hotel, inn, boarding house or restaurant any check, draft, or order for the payment of money upon any bank or other depository, in payment of the proper charges due for food, lodging, beverages or anything of value, knowing at the time that there is not sufficient credit with the drawee bank or other depository for the payment in full of the instrument upon its presentation.
(5) Obtain accommodations, food, property or services by the use of a credit card, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such card has been revoked, or was obtained, is retained, or is being used fraudulently.
(6) Obtain accommodations, food, property or services by other than the use of a credit card from any hotel, inn, boarding house or restaurant by the use of deception knowing he is without sufficient means to pay for them.
(7) Sell or offer to sell accommodations at any hotel during the weekend of the National Football League Superbowl game, Bayou Classic game, Sugar Bowl game, and during the period of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Final Four Tournament, in excess of thirty percent more than the highest advertised rack rate charged by the hotel, inn, or boarding house.
No person shall remain in a hotel or motel, or in or on a campsite, where his term or stay has expired if the person has been given written notice of his agreed departure date and checkout time at the time he registered at the motel, hotel, or campground, and the person has been given verbal or written notice to leave the hotel or motel room, or campsite at least one hour prior to the time required to leave.
The person and other occupants, and their personal belongings, may be removed by the appropriate lawful authority, provided the conditions of R.S. 21:75 have been met. No action for damages or otherwise shall be allowed in a court of law against the owners, operators, or managers of the hotel, motel, or campground or an appropriate lawful authority for reasonable exercise of rights.
An innkeeper is bound to accept for deposit the personal belongings of guests unless he is unable to provide such a service because of the excessive value, size, weight, or nature of the things sought to be deposited. He may examine the things handed over for deposit and require that they be placed in a closed or sealed receptacle.
An innkeeper who places a safe at the disposal of a guest in the guest's room is not a depositary of the things that the guest places in the safe.
An innkeeper is a compensated depositary as to things that guests deliver to him for safekeeping.
An innkeeper is not responsible for things of a guest that are stolen or damaged, unless the loss is attributed to the innkeeper's fault.
Innkeepers' and all others who let lodgings or receive or take boarders have a privilege, or more properly, a right of pledge on the property of all persons who take their board or lodging with them, by virtue of which they may retain property, and have it sold, to obtain payment of what such persons may owe them on either accounts above mentioned and this privilege shall extend to extras not to exceed Ten ($10) Dollars supplied by the proprietors of hotels, inns and boarding house keepers.
Credit Surcharge
It shall be unlawful for any person to charge an amount for a room in a hotel or motel or for any services provided by a hotel or motel in excess of the amount listed in the schedule for that particular hotel or motel as provided for in section 30-801 or in excess of the rate schedule summary required in section 30-802.
Sick Leave PTO
Requires employers who are city contractors or who receive $100,000 or more in city financial assistance in any 12 month period to provide at least seven days of compensated leave per year This leave can be used for medical or dental visits. Leave can be accrued and used on a prorated hourly basis at a rate of no less than three minutes per hour worked up to seven days of accrued leave.
Maximum Guest Rate
A copy of the schedule of rates and charges shall be available at the registration desk. A summary of the rate schedule shall be prominently posted in each room to be occupied by a hotel or motel guest in each hotel or motel in the city. The rate schedule summary so posted shall indicate the maximum and minimum amounts charged for the hotel or motel room and for special events, including Superbowl football games, the NCAA Final Four Basketball Tournament, Mardi Gras and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. It shall be unlawful for the operator of any hotel or motel in the city to fail to post the rate schedule summary required by this section.
Maximum Guest Rate
Every keeper of a hotel, inn, boardinghouse or lodging house shall post in every bedroom aschedule of the maximum daily rates for that room for occupancy by one or more persons; and any requirement for a minimum number of days for which that room must be rented.
Innkeeper Laws
No innkeeper, hotelkeeper, boardinghouse keeper, lodging house keeper, campground operator or keeper or victualer may allow any reveling, riotous or disorderly conduct, drunkenness or excess in the inn, hotel, boardinghouse, lodging house, restaurant, shop or other premises.
The owner or manager of an inn, hotel, restaurant, lodging house, camping area or boardinghouse may request that any person on the premises of that establishment who is causing unnecessary disturbance to other persons on the premises or who is damaging or destroying property belonging to or in use by the inn, hotel, restaurant, lodging house, camping area or boardinghouse leave the premises immediately. If any person who is requested to leave the premises under this section fails or refuses to do so, the owner or manager may use a reasonable degree of force against that person to remove that person from the premises. If any person who is requested to leave the premises under this section fails or refuses to do so, the owner or manager may request a law enforcement officer to remove that person from the premises.
Any person who is requested to leave the premises of an inn, hotel, restaurant, lodging house, camping area or boardinghouse or is ejected from the premises under this section, in addition to any other liability or penalty, is liable for the value of any property belonging to or in use by the inn, hotel, restaurant, lodging house, camping area or boardinghouse which is damaged or destroyed as a result of conduct while on the premises or which is damaged or destroyed during ejection from the premises under this section.
An innkeeper or campground owner may refuse or deny any accommodations, facilities or privileges of a hotel, lodging house or campground to or may eject from the hotel, lodging house or campground premises or may request a law enforcement officer to remove from the premises:
1. Any person who is unwilling or unable to pay for accommodations and services of the hotel, lodging house or campground. The innkeeper or campground owner may require the prospective guest to demonstrate the ability to pay by cash, valid credit card or a validated check;
2. Any person who has not attained 18 years of age.
3. Any person the innkeeper or campground owner reasonably believes is bringing in property that may be dangerous to other persons, such as firearms or explosives;
4. Any person or persons, if admitting that person or those persons would cause the limit on the number of persons who may occupy any particular guest room in the hotel or lodging house or a site in the campground to be exceeded. For purposes of this subsection, the limit represents the number permitted by local ordinances or reasonable standards of the hotel, lodging house or campground relating to health, safety or sanitation; or
5. Any person who disturbs, threatens or endangers other guests; is a minor and possesses or uses alcohol; pssesses or uses illegal drugs; or violates any rule of the hotel, lodging house or campground that is posted in a conspicuous place and manner at the guest registration desk and in each guest room.
Except as provided in subsection 2, no keeper of any inn, hotel or boardinghouse is liable for the loss of or injury to any articles or property of the kind specified in subsection 1 if the following conditions are met. The keeper of the inn, hotel or boardinghouse must:
A. Have constantly in his inn, hotel or boardinghouse a metal safe or suitable vault in good condition and fit for the custody of money; bank notes; jewelry; articles of gold or silver manufacture; precious stones;
personal ornaments; travel tickets; negotiable or valuable papers; and bullion;
B. Keep suitable locks or bolts on the doors of, and suitable fastenings on the transoms and windows of, the sleeping rooms used by guests; and
C. Keep a copy of this section printed in distinct type constantly and conspicuously posted in a conspicuous place at or near the guest registration desk and in each guest room.
The immunity from liability under subsection 1 does not apply in the following situations.
The keeper of the inn, hotel or boardinghouse may be held liable when the guest has offered to deliver articles or property of the kind specified in subsection 1 to the keeper of the inn, hotel or boardinghouse for custody in the safe or vault and the keeper has omitted or refused to take the property and deposit it in the safe or vault for custody and to give the guest a receipt for the goods.
The keeper of any inn, hotel or boardinghouse is not required to receive from any one guest for deposit in the safe or vault any property of the kind specified in subsection 1 which exceeds a total value of $300. The keeper is not liable for any excess of such property, whether received or not.
Every keeper of an inn, hotel or boardinghouse is liable for any guest's loss of the articles or property listed in subsection 1 after those articles have been accepted for deposit, if the loss is caused by the theft or negligence of the keeper or any of the keeper's employees.
Any keeper of an inn, hotel or boardinghouse may, by special arrangement with a guest, receive for deposit in the safe or vault any property upon any terms that they agree to in writing.
Credit Surcharge
A seller in a sales transaction may not impose a surcharge on a cardholder who elects to use a credit card or debit card in lieu of payment by cash, check or similar means.
No keeper may charge or collect a sum greater than the rate shown in the posted schedule. Any keeper who charges or collects more than the rate shown in the posted schedule is liable to the person so charged or who paid the bill in an amount equal to the total amount of the bill collected minus the rate shown in the posted schedule.
Guest Privacy
Every person conducting a hotel or lodging house shall have a register kept and maintained in the hotel or lodging house at all times. The name of every guest or person renting a room or rooms in the hotel or lodging house must be written in the register. The person renting the room or rooms, or someone under that person's direction, shall sign the register. The proprietor of the hotel or lodging house, or the proprietor's agent, shall then write the number of each room assigned to each guest, together with the date that room is rented, opposite the name or names so registered.
The proprietor or the proprietor's agent shall keep and maintain a record showing the date when the occupant of each room surrenders the room. This record may be made a part of the register.
Landlord Tenant
Provides definitions. Notes that innkeepers are individuals who manage an inn, htel, or mote and are not landlords under state law.
Sick Leave PTO
Contains provisions for bereavement leave, sick leave, paid time off, vacation time, and compensatory time. These provisions apply to employers that provide leave under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement, employment policy, or employers who employee at least 15 employees for 20 or more calendar weeks.
Requires all employers to provide 2 hours of paid leave to allow employees who are registered voters in Maryland to vote.
Contains provisions for paid sick leave for employers with 15 or more employees. Requires employers with 14 or fewer employees to provide unpaid earned sick leave. Lists limitations for accrual and use earned sick leave.
Details situations for when earned sick leave can be used. Required situations where sick leave can be used include maternity/paternity leave, to treat a physical or mental illness, and to obtain preventative care. Allows employers to require advanced, written notice for using sick leave in foreseeable circumstances.
Requires employers to provide notice to employees that they are entitled to sick leave.
Innkeeper Laws
A hotel is not liable for the loss, by robbery or otherwise, of a valuable belonging to a guest if the hotel provides a safe or other secure depository for keeping valuables of guests; the guest does not deposit the valuable with the hotel for safekeeping; and the loss does not result from the collusion or negligence of the hotel or its agent.
A hotel is not liable for more than $300 for the loss of valuables that a guest deposits with the hotel for safekeeping unless, at the time of deposit, the guest shows the valuables to an agent of the hotel and declares a greater value to the agent. A hotel need not accept for safekeeping valuables with a declared value of more than $1,000. A hotel is not liable for more than $1,000 for the loss of or damage to valuables belonging to a guest, whether or not the valuables were offered to or accepted by the hotel for safekeeping.
A hotel is not liable for more than $300 for the loss of property other than valuables of a registered guest from the room of the registered guest.
A hotel is not liable for more than $75 for the loss of property that a guest leaves with an agent or employee of the hotel at a checkroom or other similar place if the hotel has posted conspicuously at each such place a notice that states the limitation on liability under this section; the agent or employee gives to the guest an identification ticket that states on its face, in 10 point or larger type, the limitation on liability under this section; and provides a space for declaring a greater value; and the guest does not declare a value greater than $75 on the duplicate of the identification ticket that the hotel keeps.
A hotel is not liable for more than $300 for the loss of property that a guest leaves with an agent or employee of the hotel at a baggage room or other similar storage area.
A hotel is not liable for the loss of property of a guest or other person as a result of a fire that is proved to have occurred without the negligence of the hotel or its agents or employees.
Sick Leave PTO
Details family and medical leave requirements. Allows family leave to be taken during the first 12 months following the birth or adoption of a child and medical leave to be taken for certain serious health conditions that prevents covered individuals from perform their job functions.
Requires employers with more than 50 employees to allow employees to take upt to 15 days leave from work in any 12 month period if they are a victim of abusive behavior.
Innkeeper Laws
An innkeeper may remove or cause to be removed from a hotel a guest or other person who: refuses or is unable to pay for accommodations or services; while on the premises of the hotel acts in an obviously intoxicated or disorderly manner, destroys or threatens to destroy hotel property, or causes or threatens to cause a disturbance; or violates a rule of the hotel that is clearly and conspicuously posted at or near the front desk and on the inside of the entrance door of every guest room. If the guest has paid in advance, the innkeeper shall tender to the guest any unused portion of the advanced payment at the time of removal.
An innkeeper may refuse to admit or refuse service or accommodation in the hotel to a person who: while on the premises of the hotel acts in an obviously intoxicated or disorderly manner, destroys or threatens to destroy hotel property, or causes or threatens to cause a public disturbance; or refuses or is unable to pay for the accommodations or services. An innkeeper may require the prospective guest to demonstrate an ability to pay. An innkeeper may require a parent or guardian of a minor to accept liability for the proper charges for the minor's accommodation, board, room, or lodging; and any damages to the guest room or its furniture or furnishings caused by the minor, and provide a credit card to cover the charges. When the parent or guardian cannot provide a credit card, the innkeeper may require the parent or guardian to make an advance cash deposit in an amount not exceeding $100 for payment of any additional charges by the minor or any damages to the guest room or its furnishings. The innkeeper shall refund the damage deposit to the extent it is not used to cover any reasonable charges or damages.
An innkeeper may limit the number of persons who may occupy a particular guest room in the hotel.
Innholders shall post a printed copy of this and the three preceding sections in a conspicuous place in each room of their inns. Boarding house keepers shall post a copy of the preceding section in a conspicuous place in each room of their boarding houses.
Every innholder and common victualler shall at all times have a board or sign affixed to his house, shop, cellar or store, or in a conspicuous place near the same, with his name legibly inscribed thereon in large letters and the business for which he is licensed inscribed thereon, and upon neglect thereof shall forfeit twenty dollars.
Credit Surcharge
No seller in any sales transaction may impose a surcharge on a cardholder who elects to use a credit card in lieu of payment by cash, check or similar means.
In connection with any Advertising or marketing, solicitation, or offer of Sale that is Targeted To or results in a Sale in Massachusetts, the following shall constitute an unfair and deceptive practice:
(1) misrepresenting or failing to disclose Clearly and Conspicuously, at the time of the initial presentation of the price of any Product, or any subsequent presentation thereafter, the Total Price of that Product;
(2) misrepresenting or failing to disclose Clearly and Conspicuously, at the time of the initial presentation of the Total Price of any Product: (a) the nature, purpose, and amount of any fees, charges, or other expenses that would be imposed on the transaction due to the purchase of that Product (excluding Shipping Charges and Government Charges); (b) for any fees, charges, or other expenses disclosed that are optional to the consumer or waivable by the seller, the fact that such fees, charges, or other expenses are optional to the consumer or waivable by the seller, as well as readily available instructions regarding how
to avoid such fees, charges, or other expenses.
(3) misrepresenting or failing to disclose Clearly and Conspicuously, in the final presentation of the price of any Product prior to the Sale of the Product: (a) the final transaction amount, inclusive of the Total Price for all Products purchased as part of the transaction and any applicable Shipping Charges and Government Charges; (b) the nature, purpose, and amount of any fees, charges, or other expenses that would be imposed on the transaction due to the purchase of that Product; (c) for any fees, charges, or other expenses disclosed that are optional to the consumer or waivable by the seller, the fact that such fees, charges, or other expenses are optional to the consumer or waivable by the seller, as well as readily available instructions regarding how to avoid such fees, charges or other expenses.
(4) failing to disclose Clearly and Conspicuously the Total Price of any Product prior to requiring a consumer to provide any personal information, including billing information, unless said information is collected specifically, and only to the extent necessary, to facilitate underwriting in connection with the Sale of the Product, determine the Product’s availability, determine whether the Sale of such Product to the consumer is legal, or compute an aspect of pricing previously approved by a Commonwealth insurance or financial regulatory agency;
(5) misrepresenting that any fees, charges, or other expenses or any portion thereof are required by law; and
(6) failing to display the Total Price of a Product more prominently than any other pricing information any time the disclosure of the Total Price is required, except for the final presentation of prices, wherein the most prominent pricing information shall be the final transaction amount.
In the rental or lease of a dwelling unit, it shall not constitute a violation for a seller to advertise the Total Price to rent or lease the dwelling unit as a dollar amount to be paid by the consumer on a periodic basis, such as monthly or on such other term as the seller intends the rent to be paid. In such circumstances, the seller must also disclose Clearly and Conspicuously the full period covered by the rental or lease.
Guest Privacy
Every innholder, and every lodging house keeper required so to do under section twenty-eight, and every person who shall conduct, control, manage or operate, directly or indirectly, any recreational camp, overnight camp or cabin, motel or manufactured housing community shall keep or cause to be kept, in permanent form, a register in which shall be recorded the true name or name in ordinary use and the residence of every person engaging or occupying a private room averaging less than four hundred square feet floor area, excepting a private dining room not containing a bed or couch, or opening into a room containing a bed or couch, for any period of the day or night in any part of the premises controlled by the licensee, together with a true and accurate record of the room assigned to such person and of the day and hour when such room is assigned. The entry of the names of the person engaging a room and of the occupants of said room shall be made by said person engaging said room or by an occupant thereof, except that when five or more members of a business, fraternal, or social group or other group having a common interest are engaging rooms, they may designate one person to make said entry on their behalf and prior to occupancy. Until the entry of such name and the record of the room has been made, such person shall not be allowed to occupy privately any room upon the licensed premises. Such register shall be retained by the holder of the license for a period of at least one year after the date of the last entry therein, and shall be open to the inspection of the licensing authorities, their agents and the police. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than three months, or both.
All innholders, and all lodging house keepers who have been ordered to keep a register, shall post in a conspicuous place near the register a notice, to be furnished by the licensing authorities, containing the provisions of sections twenty-seven and twenty-nine relating to the entry of names and residences in the register, together with the penalty provided for their violation.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes hotels and motels used by transient guests staying for 14 or fewer consecutive calendar days from landlord tenant law.
Excludes hotels and motels form provisions related to short-term residential rentals.
Sick Leave PTO
Requires employer with 25 or more employees at the same location to allow employees with children in grades K-12 to spend up to 3 days per year on school visits if they give prior notice of their planned absence. Existing vacation, persona, or compensatory time may be used for this purpose.
Innkeeper Laws
An innkeeper, whether individual, partnership, or corporation, who constantly has in the inn a metal safe or suitable vault in good order and fit for the custody of money, bank notes, jewelry, articles of gold and silver manufacture, precious stones, personal ornaments, railroad tickets, or negotiable or valuable papers and bullion, and who keeps on the doors of the sleeping rooms used by guests suitable locks and bolts, and on the transoms and windows of the rooms suitable fastenings, and who keeps a copy of this section printed in distinct type constantly and conspicuously suspended in the office and in the parlor or sitting room, barroom, washroom, and in 5 other conspicuous places in the inn, or in not less than 10 conspicuous places in the inn, shall not be liable for the loss of or injury to any property belonging to any guest, unless the guest has offered to deliver the property to the innkeeper for custody in the metal safe or vault, and the innkeeper has refused or omitted to take it and deposit it in the safe or vault for custody and to give the guest a receipt. The keeper of any inn shall not be obliged to receive from any guest for deposit in the safe or vault any property described in this section exceeding a total value of $250.00, except under special agreement as provided in section 1, and shall not be liable for any excess of the property, whether received or not. However, every innkeeper shall be liable for any loss of the articles of a guest enumerated in this section in the inn, which loss was caused by the theft or negligence of the innkeeper or any of the innkeeper's servants.
A hotel or bed and breakfast may refuse to rent or lease a hotel room or a bed and breakfast room to a minor other than an emancipated minor.
The liability of the keeper of any inn, whether individual, partnership, or corporation, for loss of or injury to personal property of the innkeeper's guest, shall be that of a depository for hire, except that in no case shall such liability exceed the sum of $250.00; and in case of the loss of a trunk or chest, and its contents, it shall not exceed the sum of $150.00; in case of the loss of a traveling bag or dress suitcase, and contents, it shall not exceed the sum of $50.00; and in case of the loss of a box, bundle, or package, and contents, it shall not exceed the sum of $10.00. Nothing in this act shall prohibit an innkeeper from assuming a greater liability than the sum of $250.00 for the personal effects of the innkeeper's guest if the undertaking and agreement is in writing, stating the kind of personal property received and the value thereof, the kind and extent of the liability of the innkeeper, and is signed by the guests and the innkeeper or the innkeeper's clerk. Nothing in this section shall preclude any remedy now existing for the enforcement of the hotel keeper's or innkeeper's lien.
Landlord Tenant
Defines hotel as a building that is used and held out to the public as a hotel.
Michigan law does not explicitly state that hotels are exempt from landlord tenant law or provide procedures for the eviction of guests.
Guest Privacy
Every licensee or such licensee's agent or employee, under this article shall provide, and maintain a register in which shall be inscribed, in ink or electronically, at the time of arrival, the correct name of every guest renting or occupying a room, together with the home street and city address of such guest, and the number of the space assigned, together with the date and time when such space was rented. When any guest shall terminate such guest's stay, it shall be the duty of the licensee, or the licensee's agent or employee, to ensure that the time thereof is entered in the register. Such register shall be open to inspection to police and fire officers on official business.
Whenever a licensee or the licensee's agent or employee knows or has reasonable cause for believing that any person has inscribed a false name or given false information in such register, it shall be the licensee's duty to forthwith notify the Police Department of the same.
It shall be unlawful for any person to write or cause or permit to be written in any register any other or different name or designation than the legal name of the person so registered.
Housekeeping
Requires every hotel owner to maintain any shared or public areas in a clean and sanitary condition.
Innkeeper Laws
All licensees under this article shall display a sign that designates the type of dwelling in letters not less than two inches high in a conspicuous place at the entrance thereof and on the outside of the building.
Each licensee under this article, except the licensee of a rooming house, who provides a safe or suitable vault for the custody of money, bank notes, jewelry, articles of gold and silver manufacture, precious stones, personal ornaments, railroad mileage books or tickets, negotiable or valuable papers, shall keep the same in good order and shall not be liable for the loss of or injury of any such property belonging to any guest unless such guest has offered to deliver the same for custody in such safe or vault, provided, that the licensee shall not be obliged to receive from any one guest for deposit in such safe or vault such property, which exceeds a total value of $250.00.
It shall be unlawful for any licensee under this article, or such licensee's agent or employee, to permit any minor under 18 years of age to be housed in any establishment licensed under this article, unless such presence is with the consent or knowledge of the parent, guardian or adult lawfully in charge of such minor. Where the minor has not obtained the consent or knowledge of the parent, guardian or adult lawfully in charge of the minor, such licensee, or such licensee's agent or employee shall forthwith notify the Police Department of the presence of such minor.
Sick Leave PTO
Requires employers to grant 12 weeks of leave, which can be unpaid, following the birth or adoption of a child.
Housekeeping
Regulations for lodging establishments, including various cleaning requirements for bidding, floors, and common areas
Innkeeper Laws
No innkeeper who has in the establishment a fireproof, metal safe or vault, in good order and fit for the custody of valuables, and who keeps a copy of this subdivision clearly and conspicuously posted at or near the front desk and on the inside of the entrance door of every bedroom, shall be liable for the loss of or injury to the valuables of a guest unless: (1) the guest has offered to deliver the valuables to the innkeeper for custody in the safe or vault; and (2) the innkeeper has omitted or refused to take the valuables and deposit them in the safe or vault for custody and to give the guest a receipt for them. Except as otherwise provided, the liability of an innkeeper for the loss of or injury to the valuables of a guest shall not exceed $1,000. No innkeeper shall be required to accept valuables for custody in the safe or vault if their value exceeds $1,000, unless the acceptance is in writing.
No innkeeper shall be liable for the loss of or damage to baggage, parcels, packages or wearing material of a guest that has been delivered to the innkeeper for custody elsewhere than in the room assigned to the guest, or in the hotel safe or vault, unless the innkeeper has given the guest a check or receipt in writing evidencing the delivery. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision 6, the liability of an innkeeper for the loss of or damage to property delivered to the innkeeper for custody under this subdivision shall not exceed $1,000.
No innkeeper shall be liable for the loss of or damage to baggage or other receptacles of a guest, containing property of special value, and not suitable to be placed in the hotel safe or vault unless: (1) the property is delivered to the innkeeper for custody; (2) the guest, prior to the loss or damage, has filed with the innkeeper a written inventory of the property and its approximate value; (3) the innkeeper has been given an opportunity to inspect the property and to check it against the inventory; and (4) the innkeeper has given the guest a check or receipt evidencing the delivery. The liability of an innkeeper for the loss of or damage to property delivered for custody under this subdivision shall not exceed the actual value of the receptacle and its contents or the amount of the actual injury to the receptacle and its contents.
Except as otherwise provided, no innkeeper shall be liable in an amount exceeding $1,000 for the loss of or damage to personal property of a guest that is contained in the bedroom registered to the guest.
Except as otherwise provided, no innkeeper shall be liable for the loss of or damage to valuables or personal property of a guest that the guest has allowed to remain in the hotel after the relationship of innkeeper and guest has ceased, or that the guest has forwarded to the hotel before the relationship of innkeeper and guest has begun. If the valuables or personal property remain at the hotel for a period of at least ten days without having been claimed by the owner, the innkeeper has the right to deposit them in a storage warehouse, and to take a warehouse receipt in the name of the owner. An innkeeper who deposits valuables or personal property of a guest in a storage warehouse shall hold the warehouse receipt for the owner, and deliver it to the owner upon demand and upon payment of the costs of storage. The innkeeper may also dispose of abandoned, unclaimed property in the manner provided.
An innkeeper who, intentionally or negligently, causes the loss of or damage to valuables or property delivered for custody, to property contained in the assigned room of a guest, or to abandoned valuables or property not delivered to a storage warehouse, shall be liable to the guest for either the actual value of the valuables or the property, or the amount of the actual injury to the valuables or the property.
A guest who intentionally continues to occupy an assigned room in a hotel beyond the scheduled departure date without the prior written approval of the innkeeper shall be deemed to be a trespasser.
An innkeeper may remove or cause to be removed from a hotel a guest or other person who refuses or is unable to pay for accommodations or services; while on the premises of the hotel acts in an obviously intoxicated or disorderly manner, destroys or threatens to destroy hotel property, or causes or threatens to cause a disturbance; the innkeeper reasonably believes is using the premises for the unlawful possession or use of controlled substances by the person in violation of chapter 152, or using the premises for the consumption of alcohol by a person under the age of 21 years; the innkeeper reasonably believes has brought property into the hotel that may be dangerous to other persons, such as firearms or explosives; violates any federal, state, or local laws, ordinances, or rules relating to the hotel; or
violates a rule of the hotel that is clearly and conspicuously posted at or near the front desk and on the inside of the entrance door of every guest room.
If the guest has paid in advance, the innkeeper shall tender to the guest any unused portion of the advance payment at the time of removal.
An innkeeper may refuse to admit or refuse service or accommodations to a person who while on the premises of the hotel acts in an obviously intoxicated or disorderly manner, destroys or threatens to destroy hotel property, or causes or threatens to cause a public disturbance; the innkeeper reasonably believes is seeking accommodations for the unlawful possession or use of controlled substances or the use of the premises for the consumption of intoxicating liquor by a person under the age of 21 years; or the innkeeper reasonably believes is bringing property into the hotel that may be dangerous to other persons, such as firearms or explosives.
An innkeeper also may refuse to admit or refuse service or accommodations to a person who refuses or is unable to pay for the accommodations or services. An innkeeper may require the prospective guest to demonstrate an ability to pay. An innkeeper may require a parent or guardian of a minor to accept liability for the proper charges for the minor's accommodation, board, room, lodging, and any damages to the guest room or its furniture or furnishings caused by the minor, and provide a credit card to cover the charges. When the parent or guardian cannot provide a credit card, the innkeeper may require the parent or guardian to make an advance cash deposit to cover the charges for the guest room, plus a cash damage deposit in an amount not exceeding $100 for payment of any additional charges by the minor or any damages to the guest room or its furniture or furnishings. The innkeeper shall refund the damage deposit to the extent it is not used to cover any reasonable charges or damages.
An innkeeper may limit the number of persons who may occupy a particular guest room in the hotel.
Credit Surcharge
A seller or lessor of goods or services doing business in Minnesota may impose a surcharge on transactions in Minnesota with a customer who elects to use a credit or charge card in lieu of payment by cash, check, or similar means, provided:
(1) if the sale or lease of goods or services is processed in person, the seller or lessor informs the customer of the surcharge both orally at the time of sale and by a sign conspicuously posted on the seller's or lessor's premises;
(2) if the sale or lease of goods or services is processed through a website or mobile device, the seller or lessor informs the customer of the surcharge by conspicuously posting a surcharge notice during the sale, at the point of sale, on the customer order summary, or on the checkout page of the website;
(3) if the sale or lease of services is processed over the telephone, the seller or lessor informs the customer of the surcharge orally; and
(4) the surcharge does not exceed five percent of the purchase price.
A seller or lessor of goods or services that establishes and is responsible for the seller or lessor's own customer credit or charge card may not impose a surcharge on a customer who elects to use that credit or charge card in lieu of payment by cash, check, or similar means.
Guest Privacy
Every person operating within this state a recreational camping area, lodging house, hotel or motel, or resort furnishing sleeping or overnight stopping accommodations for transient guests, shall provide and keep thereat a suitable guest register for the registration of all guests provided with sleeping accommodations or other overnight stopping accommodations thereat; and every such guest shall be registered therein. Upon the arrival of every such guest, the operator of the establishment shall require the guest to enter in such register, or enter for the guest therein, in separate columns provided in such register, the name and home address of the guest and every person, if any, with the guest as a member of the party; and if traveling by motor vehicle, the make of such vehicle, registration number, and other identifying letters or characters appearing on the official number plate carried thereon, including the name of the state issuing such official plate. Such registration shall be kept in an accurate and orderly manner and retained for one year so that the same will be always accessible for inspection by the proper authorities.
Every person, upon arriving at any lodging house, recreational camping area, hotel or motel or other resort and applying for guest accommodations therein of the character, shall furnish to the operator or other attendant in charge of the establishment the registration information necessary to complete the registration, and shall not be provided with accommodations unless and until such information shall be so furnished.
The guest registry shall be open to the inspection of all law enforcement officers.
Landlord Tenant
Provides definitions. Does not include hotels or hotel managers/innkeepers in these definitions. The remainder of the landlord tenant laws in Minnesota do no explicitly exclude or include hotels.
Guest Privacy
Every person to whom a hotel license has been issued shall at all times keep a hotel guest register within the establishment that complies with Minnesota Statutes [Section] 327.10.
Sick Leave PTO
Requires that employees accrue one hour of sick leave for every 30 hours worked within city boundaries up to a maximum of 48 hours per year, unless their employer has a more generous policy.
Details how sick time can be used, including allowing employees to seek care for themselves or a family member's physical or mental illness, to diagnose a condition, or seek preventative care.
Requires notice about paid sick time to be posted in a conspicuous place informing employees of their rights to sick leave and that notice also be included in an employee handbook if the employer has an employee handbook.
Requires employers, at the employee's request, to provide information, in writing or electronically, about their current sick time available.
Requires employers to maintain records about the number of hours employees worked, the available sick leave, and hours of sick leave used. These records must be ket for a t least three years.
Housekeeping
Requires the operator of every hotel to supply and change bed linens and towels at least once a week and after providing the room to a new occupant. Also requires that bedding mattresses and springs are maintained in a clean and sanitary manner.
Requires the operator of every hotel to be responsible for the sanitary maintenance of all walls, floors, and ceilings.
Innkeeper Laws
The owner, operator, manager or person in charge may remove or cause to be removed from a boutique hotel, extended stay hotel, or hotel a guest or other person who refuses or is unable to pay for accommodations or services; while on the premises acts in an obviously intoxicated or disorderly manner, destroys or threatens to destroy establishment property, or causes or threatens to cause a disturbance; the owner, operator, manager or person in charge reasonably believes is using the premises for the unlawful possession or use of controlled substances, sex trafficking, prostitution, or using the premises for the consumption of alcohol by a person under the age of twenty-one (21); the owner, operator, manager or person in charge reasonably believes has brought property into the establishment that may be dangerous to other persons, such as firearms or explosives; violates any federal, state, or local laws, ordinances, or rules relating to the establishment; or violates a rule of the establishment that is clearly and conspicuously posted at or near the front desk and on the inside of the entrance door of every guest room.
Housekeeping
Requires that every manager or person in charge of any hotel or inn to keep rooms used by guests in a clean and sanitary condition and to provide guests with effective protection against flies, mosquitoes, and other vermin.
Innkeeper Laws
The hotel operator may require a person seeking the use of a room, accommodations, facilities or other privileges of the hotel to demonstrate his or her ability to pay for such use by cash, credit card or approved check. The hotel operator may require the parent or guardian of a person under the age of eighteen to:
(1) Accept in writing the liability for the cost of the room, accommodations, facilities or other privileges of the hotel used by the person, and the cost of any damages to the room, furnishings in the room or other facilities of the hotel caused by the person while using the room, accommodations, facilities or other privileges of the hotel;
(2) Provide the hotel operator with one of the following:
(a) The authority to charge the amount due for the cost of the room, accommodations, facilities or other privileges of the hotel used by the person, and the cost of any damages to the room, furnishings in the room or other facilities of the hotel caused by the person while using the room, accommodations, facilities or other privileges of the hotel to a credit card used by a person under the age of eighteen. The granting of such authority shall be deemed a waiver of any defense based upon the age of such person which may be raised by the minor or the person authorizing the use of the credit card; or
An advance cash payment sufficient to cover the cost of the room, accommodations, facilities or other privileges of the hotel used by the person, and a reasonable amount as a deposit toward the cost of any damages to the room, furnishings in the room or other facilities of the hotel caused by the person while using the room, accommodations, facilities or other privileges of the hotel. A cash deposit for any damages required by the hotel operator shall be promptly refunded to the extent not used to cover the cost of any such damages as determined by the hotel operator following an inspection of the room, accommodations or facilities of the hotel used by the person at the end of his or her stay.
An owner or operator of a hotel may eject a person from the hotel and notify the appropriate local law enforcement authorities for any of the following reasons:
(1) Nonpayment of charges incurred by the individual renting or leasing a room, accommodations or facilities of the hotel when the charges are due and owing;
(2) The individual renting or leasing a room, accommodations or facilities of the hotel is visibly intoxicated, under the influence of alcohol or other drug and is disorderly so as to create a public nuisance;
(3) The owner or operator reasonably believes that the individual is using the premises for an unlawful purpose;
(4) The owner or operator reasonably believes that the individual has brought something into the hotel which may create an unreasonable danger or risk to other persons, including but not limited to unlawful use of firearms or explosives; and
(5) The individual is in violation of any federal, state or local laws or regulations relating to the hotel.
An owner or operator of a hotel shall post a copy of sections 315.067 to 315.079, in addition to any rules established by the owner or operator of the hotel, in a conspicuous place at or near the guest registration desk and in each room of the hotel.
No lodging establishment in this state is liable for the loss of any money, jewelry, wearing apparel, baggage or other property of a guest in a total sum greater than two hundred dollars, unless the lodging establishment by an agreement in writing individually, or by the authorized agent or clerk in charge of the office of the lodging establishment, voluntarily assumes a greater liability with reference to such property. As regards money, jewelry or baggage, a lodging establishment is not liable in any event for the loss thereof or damage thereto, unless the same was actually delivered by the guest to him or his authorized agent, or clerk, in the office of the lodging establishment, and the receipt thereof acknowledged by the delivery to the guest of a claim check of the lodging establishment, unless the loss or damage occurs through the willful negligence or wrongdoing of the lodging establishment, his servants or employees. This section shall be posted in a conspicuous manner at the guest registration desk and in every guest room thereof, and unless so posted the same does not apply in the case of a lodging establishment failing to post same.
No lodging establishment in this state shall be liable for the loss of any baggage or other property of a guest, caused by fire not intentionally produced by the lodging establishment or its servants, nor shall he be liable for the loss of any merchandise for sale or sample belonging to a guest, unless the guest shall have given written notice of having such merchandise for sale or sample in his possession after entering the lodging establishment, nor shall the lodging establishment be compelled to receive such guest with merchandise for sale or sample; but lodging establishment shall be liable for the losses of their guests, caused by the theft of such lodging establishment or its servants, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding.
Guest Privacy
Each individual renting or leasing a room, accommodations or facilities of the hotel shall register and may be required by the owner or operator of the hotel to show proof of identity by producing a valid driver's license, other identification issued by the state or other identification satisfactory to the owner or operator. If the individual is under the age of eighteen, the owner or operator may also require a parent or guardian of the person to register.
The guest registry may be kept and maintained by recording, copying or reproducing the registry by any photographic, photostatic, microfilm, microcard, miniature photographic, electronic imaging, electronic data processing or other process which accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for accurately and legibly reproducing an unaltered image or reproduction of the original.
Landlord Tenant
Allows hotel operators to remove an individual from a hotel for nonpayment of charges, being visibly intoxicated, using the premises for an unlawful purpose, bringing in a dangerous object such as firearms or explosives, or for violating hotel rules.
Missouri law does not explicitly include or exclude hotels from landlord tenant law.
Housekeeping
Requires lodging establishments to be kept in a clan an sanitary condition, in good repair, and maintained and operated with regard to the health and safety of guests.
Requires compliance with local ordinances, regulations, and codes that establish additional requirements for lodging establishments.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes transient occupancy in a hotel or hotel from landlord tenant laws.
Allows hotel managers to evict guests who refuse or fail to pay when the bill is due. If after demanding payment and receiving none, a hotel manager may lock the guests room an droomage their personal property. Guests may also be evicted if they are under the influence of drugs or alcohol and acting in a disorderly fashion, is using the hotel for unlawful purposes, brings in a toxic or hazardous substance or explosive, destroys property, or fails to follow hotel rules.
Housekeeping
Establishes requirements for the cleaning and maintenance of guest rooms including providing freshly laundered sheets, provisions for shared bathroom cleaning, the cleaning of floors and furniture, and the maintenance and cleaning of cleaning supplies.
Innkeeper Laws
An innkeeper is liable for all losses of or injuries to personal property placed by the guests under the innkeeper's care unless occasioned by an irresistible superhuman cause, by a public enemy, by the negligence of the owner, or by the act of someone whom the innkeeper brought into the inn.
The liability may not exceed $500 for all personal property of each registered guest unless the innkeeper consents in writing with the guest to assume a greater liability. An innkeeper whose liability is limited shall notify the guest at the time of registration, in writing, that this limitation applies.
An innkeeper may evict a guest of a hotel who refuses or has otherwise failed to pay the bill when due. Before evicting a guest, the innkeeper shall demand payment of the bill and shall ask the guest to vacate the premises. If the guest does not pay the bill or leave following these requests, the innkeeper may lock the door to the guest's room, remove the guest's baggage and other personal property, or evict the guest by any other peaceful means. The innkeeper may hold the guest's baggage and other personal property but is subject to liability..
An innkeeper may also evict a person, whether or not the person is a guest of the hotel, who is under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or any other intoxicating substance and acts in a disorderly fashion so as to disturb the peace of other guests or is not in compliance with state liquor laws; acts in a disorderly fashion so as to disturb the peace of other guests; seeks to use the hotel for an unlawful purpose; seeks to bring into the hotel an unlawfully possessed firearm; or something, including an explosive or a hazardous or toxic substance, that it is unlawful to possess and that may be dangerous to other persons; destroys, damages, defaces, or threatens harm to hotel property or guests; causes or permits persons to exceed the maximum allowable occupancy of a hotel room as established by the innkeeper; refuses to abide by reasonable standards or policies established by the innkeeper for operation and management of the hotel.
An innkeeper may not be required to provide accommodations, facilities, or privileges of a hotel, to a person who is unwilling or unable to pay for the accommodations and services of the hotel. An innkeeper may require a prospective guest to demonstrate the ability to pay for the accommodations and services by paying a damage deposit in cash or with an accepted credit card; the innkeeper reasonably believes to be under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or another intoxicating substance or who acts in a disorderly fashion so as to disturb the peace of other guests; the innkeeper reasonably believes seeks to bring into the hotel an unlawfully possessed firearm; or something, including an explosive or a hazardous or toxic substance, that it is unlawful to possess and that may be dangerous to other persons; destroys, damages, defaces, or threatens harm to hotel property or guests; refuses to abide by reasonable standards or policies established by the innkeeper for operation and management of the hotel; or causes or permits persons to exceed the maximum allowable occupancy of a hotel room as established by the innkeeper.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes transient occupancy in a hotel or hotel from landlord tenant laws.
Innkeeper Laws
No person, firm, or corporation, operating a hotel, restaurant, apartment house, motel, or rooming house, who (1) constantly has in his, her, or their place of business a metal safe or vault in good order and fit for the custody of money, bank notes, jewelry, articles of gold and silver manufacture, precious stones, personal ornaments, railroad mileage checks or tickets, negotiable or other valuable papers, bullion, or other property of small size belonging to the guests of such hotel, restaurant, apartment house, motel, or rooming house, (2) keeps suitable locks or bolts on the doors of the sleeping rooms used by guests and suitable fastenings on the transoms and windows of such rooms, and (3) constantly and conspicuously keeps posted, in the public areas of such place of business and in each sleeping room in the place of business, a copy of this section, printed in distinct type, shall be liable for the loss of or injury to such property suffered by any guest, unless such guest has offered to deliver the property to the keeper of a hotel, restaurant, apartment house, motel, or rooming house, for custody in such metal safe or vault, and the proprietor of such business has omitted or refused to take and deposit the same in such safe or vault for custody and give such guest a receipt therefor. If such property is offered by the guest and deposited by the proprietor in such safe, there shall be no liability on the part of the proprietor for loss or injury to such property absent negligence or dishonesty on the part of the proprietor or his or her agents. The proprietor of such business place shall not be obliged to receive from any one guest, for deposit in such safe or vault, any property, described in this section, exceeding a total value of five hundred dollars and shall not be liable for the value of any such property in excess of five hundred dollars, unless receipted for in writing, in which event recovery of the actual damages sustained may be allowed in an amount not to exceed the actual value of such property. Such keeper of a hotel, restaurant, apartment house, motel, or rooming house may, by special arrangement with the guest, receive for deposit in such safe or vault any property upon such terms as they may agree to in writing and, in such a case, shall be liable for any loss of the above-enumerated articles of a guest, only after such articles have been accepted for deposit, if such loss is caused by theft or negligence on the part of the keeper of such business or any of his or her servants. Whenever any person shall allow his or her trunks, grips, household articles, boxes of merchandise, or samples to remain in any hotel, restaurant, apartment house, motel, or rooming house after leaving such place of business as a guest, such proprietor shall have the right to deposit any baggage or property so received in a storage warehouse, in which event he or she shall take from the proprietor of such warehouse a receipt for the same in the name of the owner thereof, and hold the receipt, for such owner. The proprietor of a hotel, restaurant, apartment house, motel, or rooming house, after he or she has deposited such baggage or property in a storage warehouse, shall not be responsible for the loss thereof if he or she has the storage warehouse receipt for delivery to the owner of such baggage or property upon demand.
Every person, firm, or corporation maintaining, operating, or conducting a hotel, restaurant, apartment house, motel, or rooming house, where a suitable room or rooms are provided for the reception and keeping of trunks, packages, wearing apparel, and similar articles, who, on the request of a bona fide guest of such place of business, receives for safekeeping any trunk, bag, or articles of wearing apparel, or similar articles shall (1) issue to such guest a receipt or check therefor, (2) be responsible for such property so taken, and (3) be liable for loss, damage, or injury to such property, except that the person, firm, or corporation, operating such hotel, restaurant, apartment house, motel, or rooming house, shall not be required to receive and be responsible for any (a) trunk and its contents to the value of more than two hundred dollars, (b) valise, grip, or sample case and its contents to the value of more than seventy-five dollars, (c) box, bundle, or package and its contents to the value of more than twenty-five dollars, or (d) miscellaneous other effects, including wearing apparel and personal belongings so checked to the value of more than seventy-five dollars, unless he or she shall have consented in writing with such guest to assume a greater responsibility.
The limitations of liability, provided for in sections 41-208 and 41-209, shall apply to all property brought upon the premises of the hotel, restaurant, apartment house, motel, or rooming house for forty-eight hours after the guest has ceased occupying the premises and paid his or her bill therefor, which shall terminate the relation of keeper and guest, except that the keeper or owner may continue to hold such property at the risk of the guest or owner of such property.
For any loss of or damage to any property left by a guest after he or she has departed from any hotel, restaurant, apartment house, motel, or rooming house and ceased to be a guest thereof, the liability of the proprietor thereof, whether or not such loss or damage is occasioned by the negligence of such proprietor or his or her agents or servants, shall be that of a gratuitous bailee and the amount which may be recovered against such proprietor shall not exceed the sum of two hundred fifty dollars unless the guest shall have declared a greater value upon the property in writing and delivered such declaration, while a guest thereof, to the hotel, restaurant, apartment house, motel, or rooming house, in which event recovery of the actual damages sustained may be allowed in an amount not in excess of the value so declared. Forms for making such declaration shall be furnished by the hotel, restaurant, apartment house, motel, or rooming house. A copy thereof, signed by the proprietor or his or her agent, shall be delivered to the guest. A copy of this section printed in not smaller than ten-point type shall be conspicuously posted in the public areas and in each room of each hotel, restaurant, apartment house, motel, or rooming house desiring to obtain the benefit of this section.
For any loss of or damage to any property of a guest while in transport to or from any hotel, restaurant, apartment house, motel, or rooming house, whether or not such loss or damage is occasioned by the negligence of such proprietor or his or her agents or servants, the amount which may be recovered against such proprietor shall not exceed five hundred dollars unless the guest shall have declared a greater value upon the property in writing and delivered such declaration, while a guest thereof, to the hotel, restaurant, apartment house, motel, or rooming house, in which event recovery of the actual damages sustained may be allowed in an amount not in excess of the value so declared. Forms for making such declaration shall be furnished by the hotel, restaurant, apartment house, motel, or rooming house. A copy thereof, signed by the proprietor or his or her agent, shall be delivered to the guest. A copy of this section printed in not smaller than ten-point type shall be conspicuously posted in the public areas and in each room of each hotel, restaurant, apartment house, motel, or rooming house desiring to obtain the benefit of this section.
For any loss of or damage to any property brought into any hotel, restaurant, apartment house, motel, or rooming house, arising out of the negligence of the proprietor or his or her agents or servants, the proprietor thereof shall not be liable for an amount in excess of one thousand dollars unless such guest shall have declared a greater value upon the property in writing and delivered such declaration, while a guest thereof, to the hotel, restaurant, apartment house, motel, or rooming house, in which event recovery of the actual damages sustained may be allowed but not in excess of the value so declared. Forms for making such declaration shall be furnished by the hotel, restaurant, apartment house, motel, or rooming house. A copy thereof signed by the proprietor or his or her agent shall be delivered to the guest. A copy of this section printed in not smaller than ten-point type shall be conspicuously posted in the public areas and in each room of each hotel, restaurant, apartment house, motel, or rooming house desiring to obtain the benefit of this section.
There shall be no liability on the part of the proprietor of any hotel, apartment house, rooming house, restaurant, or motel, for loss of, or damage to, any property of guests of such place of business unless within seven days from the time of discovery of any loss or damage, such loss or damage is reported in writing to such proprietor. A copy of this section in not smaller than ten-point type shall be conspicuously posted in the public areas and in each room of each hotel, restaurant, apartment house, motel, or rooming house desiring to obtain the benefit of this section.
Housekeeping
Requires hotel guests to be provided with clean bedding, sheets, and pillow slips. New sheets and pillow slips must be supplied for each new guest.
Requires all bedding used in hotels to be kept clean from all filth or dirt.
Requires any hotel that is used for sleeping to be free from any and every kind of dirt or filth and that all walls, floors, ceilings, and doors in each room are free from dirt.
Requires any hotel room that is occupied by a person with a contagious or infectious disease to be fumigated and all bedding thoroughly disinfected before the room can be occupied by any other person. Additionally, any room occupied by a person with a contagious or infectious disease may not be let for at least 48 hours after fumigation or disinfection.
Every hotel with a public washstand or washbowl must keep a sufficient supply of clean, individual towels. This can include paper towels.
Requires every hotel to have sanitary facilities for the storage and disposal of garbage and prohibits garbage from being permitted to accumulate in a hotel.
Maximum Guest Rate
Every owner or keeper of any hotel, inn, motel or motor court in this state shall post in a conspicuous place in the office and in every bedroom of the establishment a printed copy of this section and NRS 651.010 and 651.020; and maintain a printed statement of the charge or rate of charges by the day for lodging and make the statement available for viewing, upon request, at the registration desk or an equivalent location in the establishment.
No charge or sum may be collected for any greater or other sum than the owner or keeper is entitled to charge pursuant to the general rules and regulations of the establishment.
The rates listed on the printed statement required to be maintained by an owner or keeper of an establishment must include the daily rate of the room for occupancy by one person and for occupancy by two persons; the additional charge, if any, for occupancy by each additional person over two persons; the additional charge, if any, for each additional bed provided in the room; and the additional charge, if any, to offset energy costs incurred by the establishment.
Every establishment shall maintain a registration card for each room and supply the person or persons registering for accommodations a receipt. Both the registration card and the receipt must reflect the type of accommodations supplied, the number of persons occupying the accommodation and the rate charged each person therefor. An establishment shall not charge more than the rates listed on the printed statement required to be maintained by an owner or keeper of an establishment.
Innkeeper Laws
An owner or keeper of any hotel, inn, motel, motor court, boardinghouse or lodging house in this State is not civilly liable for the theft, loss, damage or destruction of any property brought by a patron upon the premises or left in a motor vehicle upon the premises because of theft, burglary, fire or otherwise, in the absence of gross neglect by the owner or keeper.
An owner or keeper of any hotel, inn, motel, motor court, boardinghouse or lodging house in this State is not civilly liable for the theft, loss, damage or destruction of any property of a guest left in a guest room if the owner or keeper provides a fireproof safe or vault in which guests may deposit property for safekeeping; notice of this service is personally given to a guest or posted in the office and the guest's room; and the property is not offered for deposit in the safe or vault by a guest, unless the owner or keeper is grossly negligent.
An owner or keeper is not obligated to receive property to deposit for safekeeping which exceeds $750 in value or is of a size which cannot easily fit within the safe or vault.
The liability of the owner or keeper does not exceed the sum of $750 for any property, including, but not limited to, property which is not deposited in a safe or vault because it cannot easily fit within the safe or vault, of an individual patron or guest, unless the owner or keeper receives the property for deposit for safekeeping and consents to assume a liability greater than $750 for its theft, loss, damage or destruction in a written agreement in which the patron or guest specifies the value of the property.
Guest Privacy
Every establishment shall maintain a registration card for each room and supply the person or persons registering for accommodations a receipt. Both the registration card and the receipt must reflect the type of accommodations supplied, the number of persons occupying the accommodation and the rate charged each person therefor.
Innkeeper Laws
No hotel keeper, innkeeper, operator of overnight cabins, motor courts, or similar establishments (hereinafter referred to as hotel keeper), shall be liable to a guest for the loss of wearing apparel or baggage belonging to such guest where it shall appear that such loss takes place from the room or rooms assigned to such guest and provided such hotel keeper proves affirmatively that such loss was not caused or contributed to by his negligence or fault, or was caused solely by the negligence of such guest; and, in no case shall recovery for such loss exceed the sum of $300. A hotel keeper shall provide a suitable safe in his hotel for the safekeeping of money, jewelry, precious stones, watches, negotiable securities and other valuables belonging to the guests of such hotel; and, if such hotel keeper gives notice thereof by posting in the rooms of such guests and in the office of the hotel, in a conspicuous manner, a notice containing a copy of this section and stating therein the fact that such safe is provided in which such property may be deposited, such hotel keeper shall not be liable to any guest for the loss by theft, or otherwise, of any such property not delivered, or offered to be delivered, to the person in charge of the office of such hotel for deposit in such safe, provided such hotel keeper proves affirmatively that such loss was not caused or contributed to by his negligence or fault, or was caused solely by the negligence of such guest, and such hotel keeper shall not be liable to any guest for any sum in excess of $1,000 on account of the loss by theft, or otherwise, of any such property received for deposit, except by special contract in writing stating the kind and value of the property received and the kind and extent of the liability of the hotel keeper. Nor shall such hotel keeper be liable in any sum for the loss of other property, including wearing apparel and personal baggage, belonging to any guest and not within the room or rooms assigned to him, unless the same is specially entrusted to the care and custody of such hotel keeper or agents or servants.
No hotel keeper shall be liable for losses of goods or property sustained by his employees or guests, caused by a fire, unless such fire shall be caused by his negligence.
A hotel keeper, including any person keeping public lodging houses, tourist camps, or cabins, may refuse or deny any accommodations, facilities, or privileges of a hotel, lodging house, or campground to any person who is unwilling or unable to pay for accommodations and services of the hotel, lodging house, or campground. The hotel keeper may require the prospective guest to demonstrate the ability to pay by cash, valid credit card, or a validated check; any person under the age of 18 who does not present a signed notification from a parent or legal guardian that the parent or legal guardian accepts liability of the guest room or campground site costs, taxes, all charges by the guest, and any damages to the hotel, lodging house, campground, guest room, or its furnishings or to the campground site caused by the minor guest while at the hotel, lodging house, or campground to the extent that such costs, taxes, damages, or charges exceed the amount of cash or credit card deposit already provided by the guest; or any person or persons, if admitting that person or those persons would cause the limit on the number of persons who may occupy any particular guest room in the hotel or lodging house or a site in the campground to be exceeded. The limit represents the number permitted by local ordinances or reasonable standards of the hotel, lodging house, or campground relating to health, safety, or sanitation.
All hotel keepers and all persons keeping public lodging houses or cabins may remove or cause to be removed from such establishment any guest remaining in a rental unit in violation of the law by notifying such guest that the establishment no longer desires to entertain him or her and requesting that the guest immediately leave. Any guest who remains or attempts to remain in a rental unit after being so requested to leave shall be guilty of a violation.
All hotel keepers and persons keeping public lodging houses, cabins, or any rental unit may immediately remove or cause to be immediately removed by any law enforcement officer of this state, any guest who willfully denies other guests their right to quiet enjoyment of their tenancies, including but not limited to any guest who disturbs, threatens, or endangers other guests; is less than 21 years of age and possesses alcohol; possesses illegal drugs; violates any rule of the hotel, lodging house, or campground that is posted in a conspicuous place and manner at the guest registration desk and in each guest room; or violates any local or state law.
The right to remove, or cause to be removed, shall arise after the hotel keeper or person keeping a public lodging house, or cabin, or their agents makes a reasonable attempt to verbally warn said guest to cease and desist said breach of quiet enjoyment or violation of local or state law. Upon such immediate eviction, the guest shall be refunded the unused portion of his or her pre-paid rental fee less damage charges for his or her actions.
Any law enforcement officer of this state, upon request of a hotel keeper, or person keeping a public lodging house, or cabin, shall place under arrest and take into custody any guest who violates this section in the presence of the officer. Upon arrest, the guest shall be deemed to have abandoned his right of occupancy of the rental unit and the operator of the establishment may then make such unit available to other guests. The operator of said establishment shall employ all reasonable means to protect any personal property left on the premises by such guest.
Guest Privacy
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.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes individuals staying in hotels or motels rented for recreational or vacation use from landlord tenant laws.
Allows hotel managers to refuse or deny accommodation to anyone unable or unwilling to pay or any person under 18.
Allows hotel managers to remove, or cause to be removed, any guest who is disturbing or threatening other guests, possesses alcohol and is under 21, possesses illegal drugs, or violate any hotel rule or any state and local law.
Maximum Guest Rate
All hotel keepers and all persons keeping public lodging houses, tourist camps or cabins shall post in each guest room and at the registration desk a notice listing the minimum and maximum room rental fees on a daily or weekly basis or both if applicable. The notice shall specify the dates when the maximum rates are in effect.
All hotel keepers and all persons keeping public lodging houses, tourist camps, or cabins shall, upon the registration of each guest, cause an entry to be made in the book or card system required by RSA 353:3 which shall record the guest's agreed upon departure time and date. No guest shall, without the consent of the hotel keeper or such person keeping a public lodging house, tourist camp, or cabin remain in a rental unit beyond the departure time and date so recorded at registration.
Housekeeping
Requires the Commissioner of Health to issue protocols for sanitizing hotels that include ensuring that guest rooms are cleaned and sanitized daily, public spaces are cleaned and sanitized daily, and that employees are trained on proper use of anti-microbial cleaning products and proper cleaning protocols.
Provides definitions relating to hotel sanitization
Establishes requirements for owners and operators of hotels that provide housekeeping services. Establishes requirements for hotel sanitation.
Sick Leave PTO
Requires employers to provide earned sick leave to each employee working in New Jersey. Requires that for every 30 hours work an employee accrues one hour of earned sick leave. Also allows employers to be in compliance with this requirement if they offer paid time off, including personal days, vacation days, and sick days.
Details the purposes for when earned sick leave can be used, including time need to diagnose ro recover from a mental or physical illness, to care for a family member with a mental or physical illness, and for seeking medical attention to recovery from physical or psychological injuries caused by being the victim of domestic violence.
Requires employers to provide notice to employees of their rights related to sick leave.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes transient occupancy in a hotel or motel from landlord tenant laws.
Sick Leave PTO
Requires employees to accrue at least one of hour of earned sick leave for every 30 hours worked. Allows sick leave to be used for employees to care for themselves or family members with a physical or mental illness, medical diagnosis, or to receive preventative care.
Requires employers to provide written or electronic notice at the beginning of an employees employment of their rights to earned sick leave, how leave is accrued, and the terms of earned sick leave as guaranteed by the Health Workplaces Act.
Requires employers to retain for the immediately preceding forty-eight-month period records documenting hours worked by employees and earned sick leave taken by employees.
Requires employers to provide employees with domestic abuse leave.
Allows employees to use sick leave or paid time off for domestic abuse leave.
Defines domestic abuse leave as intermittent paid or unpaid leave time for up to fourteen days in any calendar year, taken by an employee for up to eight hours in one day, to obtain or attempt to obtain an order of protection or other judicial relief from domestic abuse or to meet with law enforcement officials, to consult with attorneys or district attorney's' victim advocates or to attend court proceedings related to the domestic abuse of an employee or an employee's family member.
Innkeeper Laws
Hotelkeepers shall be liable to their guests for loss of property brought by such guests into the hotel when such loss is caused by the theft or negligence of a hotelkeeper or his servants, not to exceed the sum of one thousand dollars [($1,000)]; provided, however, that any hotelkeeper who shall provide a suitable safe in his hotel for safekeeping of any money, jewels, ornaments or other valuables belonging to his guests and shall notify them thereof by posting a printed notice conspicuously in the rooms of such hotel that such safe has been provided for said purpose, shall not be liable for the loss of any money, jewels, ornaments or other valuables by theft or otherwise which any guest who has neglected to deposit same in such safe, may sustain.
Sick Leave PTO
Requires employer to provide up to two hours paid time off to allow employees to vote if they do not have sufficient time outside of their scheduled working hours to vote.
Requires employer to provide funeral or bereavement leave for the death of an employee's spouse, or child to deny the same leave to an employee for the death of an employee's same-sex committed partner or the child, or parent, or other relative of the committed partner.
Housekeeping
Requires hotels to provide each guest with a clean towel and to have clean towels available in public restrooms; if hotels provide dishes or silverware they must be fully sanitized; sheets must be at least 91 inches long and all sheets and pillow slips must be washed, ironed, and dried before being provided to another guest.
Requires rooms to be clean and free from vermin, rodents, garbage, filth, or any other thing that may be a danger to health.
Maximum Guest Rate
In addition to other provisions in this article relating to posting of rates, every keeper of a hotel, motel or inn shall post publicly and conspicuously at the place maintained for the registration of guests so that it can be easily and readily seen and read by guests registering, a statement of the charges or rate of charges by the day indicating the standard rates for rooms or suites of different accommodations, and for meals furnished.
The standard rates shall be that schedule of rates available to guests who do not qualify for special discounts or rate reductions.
Sick Leave PTO
Requires employers to maintain written sick time policies that are distributed to employees upon the start of their employment, within 14 days of the effective date of any change, or upon request by the employee.
Requires that all employers with five or more or employees, or one or more domestic workers, or employers with four or fewer employees with a net income of at least $1 million during the previous tax year, must provide paid sick leave. One hour of sick leave must be provided for every 30 hours worked.
Details how sick leave can be used, including for the employee to care for themselves or a family member with a physical or mental illness or to diagnose a condition. Also allows time to be use to obtain treatment or services if the employee is a victim of domestic violence.
Requires that pay for sick time be the same hourly rate that the employee is normally paid. If sick time is taken during hours that would be considered overtimes, employers are not required to pay the overtime rate.
Housekeeping
Requires the operator of a hotel to maintain the cleanliness of guest rooms, sanitary facilities, and hotel common areas Requires guest roms to have clean linens prior to each new guest and requires linens to be replaced when requested by a guest. Requires trash to be removed from guest rooms daily unless the guest declines cleaning and trash services. Prohibits hotels from charging a fee for daily room cleaning or from offering any discount or incentive to forgo daily room cleaning.
Maximum Guest Rate
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, who owns, operates or who has control of the operation of any motor court, tourist court, tourist camp, or guest house to publish or cause to be displayed in writing, or by any other means, any advertisement which includes a statement relating to the rates or charges obtaining at such motor court, tourist court, tourist camp, or guest house, unless such advertisement shall, with equal prominence, contain additional data relating to such room rates, in the following particulars:
(1) Whether the rate advertised is for a single or multiple occupancy of the room;
(2) The number of rooms or units in each price level where such advertisement indicates varying rates; and
(3) The dates or period of time during which such advertised rates are available.
Innkeeper Laws
Every innkeeper shall at all times provide suitable lodging accommodations for persons accepted as guests in an inn, hotel, motel, recreational vehicle park, campground, or other similar transient occupancy.
A written statement setting forth the time period during which a guest may occupy an assigned room, signed or initialed by the guest, shall be deemed a valid contract, and at the expiration of such time period the lodger may be restrained from entering and any property of the guest may be removed by the innkeeper without liability, except for damages to or loss of such property attributable to its removal.
Innkeepers shall not be liable for loss, damage or destruction of the baggage or property of their guests except in case such loss, damage, or destruction results from the failure of the innkeeper to exercise ordinary, proper and reasonable care in the custody of such baggage and property; and in case of such loss, damage or destruction resulting from the negligence and want of care of the said innkeeper he shall be liable to the owner of the said baggage and property to an amount not exceeding one hundred dollars. Any guest may, however, at any time before a loss, damage or destruction of his property, notify the innkeeper in writing that his property exceeds in value the said sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00), and shall upon demand of the innkeeper furnish him a list or schedule of the same, with the value thereof, in which case the innkeeper shall be liable for the loss, damage or destruction of said property because of any negligence on his part for the full value of the same. Proof of the loss of any such baggage, except in case of damage or destruction by fire, shall be prima facie evidence of the negligence of said hotel or innkeeper.
It is the duty of innkeepers, upon the request of any guest, to receive from said guest and safely keep money, jewelry and valuables to an amount not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00); and no innkeeper shall be required to receive and take care of any money, jewelry or other valuables to a greater amount than five hundred dollars ($500.00): Provided, the receipt given by said innkeeper to said guest shall have plainly printed upon it a copy of this section. No innkeeper shall be liable for the loss, damage or destruction of any money or jewels not so deposited.
Every innkeeper shall keep posted in every room of his house occupied by guests, and in the office, a printed copy of this Article and of all regulations relating to the conduct of guests. This Chapter shall not apply to innkeepers, or their guests, where the innkeeper fails to keep such notices posted.
Guest Privacy
No person shall write, or cause to be written, or if in charge of a register knowingly permit to be written, in any register in any lodging house or hotel any other or different name or designation than the true name or names in ordinary use of the person registering or causing himself to be registered therein. Any person occupying any room or rooms in any lodging house or hotel shall register or cause himself to be registered where registration is required by such lodging house or hotel. Any person registering or causing himself to be registered at any lodging house or hotel, shall write, or cause to be written, in the register of such lodging house or hotel the correct address of the person registering, or causing himself to be registered.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes transient occupancy from landlord tenant law.
Allows hotel managers to prevent guests from entering hotel property if they stay for longer than the period for which they agreed.
Landlord Tenant
North Dakota does not explicitly exclude or include hotels in landlord tenant law.
Sick Leave PTO
Allows employers to withhold payment for paid time off under circumstances if an employee voluntarily leaves their job.
Housekeeping
Details health and safety requirements, including for bedrooms and bathrooms in lodging establishments
Innkeeper Laws
No hotelkeeper who constantly has in the hotelkeeper's inn or hotel a metal safe or suitable vault in good order and fit for the custody of money, bank notes, jewelry, articles of gold and silver manufacture, precious stones, personal ornaments, railroad mileage books or tickets, negotiable or valuable papers and bullion, and who keeps on the doors of the sleeping rooms used by guests suitable locks or bolts, and on the transoms and windows of said rooms suitable fastenings, and who keeps a copy of this section printed in distinct type constantly posted in not less than ten conspicuous places in said hotel or inn, shall be liable for loss or injury suffered by any guest, unless such guest has offered to deliver the same to such innkeeper or hotelkeeper for custody in such metal safe or vault, and such innkeeper or hotelkeeper has omitted or refused to take it and deposit it in such safe or vault for custody and to give such guest a receipt therefor. The keeper of any inn or hotel shall not be obliged to receive from any one guest for deposit in such safe or vault any property hereinbefore described exceeding the total value of three hundred dollars and shall not be liable for any excess for such property, whether received or not.
A hotelkeeper by a special arrangement with a guest may receive for deposit in a safe or vault of the character mentioned in section 60-01-29 any property upon such terms as such keeper and guest may agree to in writing, but every hotelkeeper shall be liable for any loss of the articles enumerated in section 60-01-29 of a guest in the hotel after said articles have been accepted for deposit, if such loss is caused by theft or negligence of the hotelkeeper or any of the hotelkeeper's servants.
Every guest, and everyone intending to be a guest, of any hotel, upon delivering any of the person's baggage or other article of property to the proprietor of the hotel, or to the proprietor's servants, for safekeeping elsewhere than in the room assigned to the guest, shall demand a check or receipt for such property to evidence the fact of such delivery, and the proprietor shall give such check or receipt. A hotel proprietor shall not be liable for the loss or injury to such baggage or other article of property of the hotel guest unless the same actually has been delivered by such guest to the hotel proprietor or to the proprietor's servants for safekeeping, or unless the loss or injury occurred through the negligence of the hotel proprietor or of the proprietor's servants or employees.
The liability of the keeper of a hotel for the loss of or injury to personal property placed by hotel guests under the keeper's care, other than that described in sections 60-01-29 through 60-01-31, shall be that of a depositary for hire. Such liability, in no case, shall exceed the sum of one hundred fifty dollars for each trunk and its contents, ten dollars for each box, bundle, or package and its contents, and fifty dollars for all other miscellaneous effects, including wearing apparel and personal belongings, unless the hotelkeeper has consented in writing with such guest to assume a greater liability. If the loss or injury is caused by a fire not intentionally produced by the hotelkeeper or the hotelkeeper's servants, the hotelkeeper is not liable.
Whenever a person allows the person's baggage or property to remain in a hotel after leaving the hotel as a guest, and after the relation of hotelkeeper and guest has ceased, or whenever a person forwards the person's baggage to a hotel before becoming a guest thereof, and the same is received in such hotel, the hotelkeeper may hold such baggage or property at the risk of the owner.
Innkeeper Laws
The liability of an innkeeper whether person, partnership, or corporation, for loss of or injury to personal property placed in his care by his guests other than that described in sections 4721.01 and 4721.02 of the Revised Code, shall be that of a depositary for hire. Liability shall not exceed one hundred fifty dollars for each trunk and its contents, fifty dollars for each valise and its contents, and ten dollars for each box, bundle, or package, and contents, so placed in his care, unless he has consented in writing with such guest to assume a greater liability.
An innkeeper, whether a person, partnership, or corporation, having in his inn a metal safe or vault in good order suitable for the custody of money, bank notes, jewelry, articles of gold and silver manufacture, precious stones, personal ornaments, railroad mileage books or tickets, negotiable or valuable papers, and bullion, and keeping on the doors of the sleeping rooms used by his guests suitable locks or bolts, and on the transoms and windows of such rooms suitable fastenings, and keeping a copy of this section printed in distinct type conspicuously suspended in the office, ladies' parlor or sitting room, barroom, washroom, and five other conspicuous places in such inn, or not less than ten conspicuous places in all, shall not be liable for loss or injury suffered by a guest, unless such guest has offered to deliver such property to such innkeeper for custody in such metal safe or vault, and the innkeeper has omitted or refused to take and deposit it in the safe or vault for custody and give the guest a receipt therefor.
An innkeeper shall not be obliged to receive from a guest for deposit in the safe or vault, property described in section 4721.01 of the Revised Code exceeding a total value of five hundred dollars, and shall not be liable for such property exceeding such value whether received or not. Such innkeeper, by special arrangement with a guest may receive for deposit in such safe or vault property upon such written terms as may be agreed upon. An innkeeper shall be liable for a loss of any of such property of a guest in his inn caused by the theft or negligence of the innkeeper or his servant.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes tourist homes, hotels, motels, and similar facilities for transient occupancy from landlord tenant law.
Housekeeping
Requires all bedding in hotels to be thorough aired, disinfected, and kept clean. Prohibits bedding infested with bedbugs or other vermin from being used. Requires all floors, carpets, and equipment to be kept clean.
Requires all bathrooms to be kept clean and ventilated at all times.
Requires all sheets and pillow sheets to be washed daily if requested by a guest and for all sheets and pillow slips to be washed before being used by another guest.
Maximum Guest Rate
The owner or manager of each hotel shall post in a conspicuous place in each room thereof a card or sign stating the price per day of such room, and shall file with the state fire marshal a diagram or list showing the price of each room in the hotel and no advances shall be made in this schedule, without twenty days' written notice to the state fire marshal. The posted hotel rate shall reflect the maximum actual rate and include the maximum rate per number of actual occupants.
Housekeeping
Details cleaning and storage requirements for in-room dishes and silverware
Provides a procedure for how employees should wash their hands
Innkeeper Laws
An innkeeper or keeper of a boarding house is liable for all losses of, or injuries to, personal property placed by his guests or boarders under his care, unless occasioned by an irresistible superhuman cause, by a public enemy, by the negligence of the owner, or by the act of someone whom he brought into the inn or boarding house, and upon such property the innkeeper or keeper of a boarding house has a lien and a right of detention for the payment of such amount as may be due him for lodging, fare, boarding, or other necessaries by such guest or boarder; and the said lien may be enforced by a sale of the property in the manner prescribed for the sale of pledged property.
It shall be the duty of the proprietor, manager, or operator of any hotel, apartment hotel, or inn to equip the doors of all guest rooms in any hotel, apartment hotel or inn operated by him, with suitable night latches, night chains, or bolts, so placed on the inside of such doors, as to prevent such doors from being opened from the outside by key or otherwise.
Whenever the proprietor, manager or operator of any hotel, apartment hotel or inn shall provide a safe, vault or other depository for the safekeeping of any money, jewels, ornaments, bank notes, bonds, negotiable securities, or other valuable papers, precious stones, railroad tickets, articles of gold or silver manufacture, or other valuable property of small compass, belonging to guests of said hotel, apartment hotel or inn, and shall notify the guests thereof by posting a notice in a public and conspicuous place and manner in the office or public rooms, or in the public parlors, or in the guest rooms for said hotel, apartment hotel or inn, stating the fact that such safe, vault or other depository is provided, in which such property may be deposited, and if such guests shall neglect to deliver such property to the person in charge of such office, for deposit in such safe, vault or other depository, the proprietor, manager or operator of such hotel, apartment hotel or inn shall not be liable for any loss of any such property, sustained by such guest, whether by negligence of such proprietor, manager or operator, or his, her, or its servants, or employees, or by fire, theft, burglary or any other cause. Such guest shall, at the time of delivering such property to the person in charge of the office of such hotel, apartment hotel or inn, advise such person of the actual value of such property, and no proprietor, manager or operator or person in charge of the office of such hotel, apartment hotel or inn shall be required to receive property on deposit for safekeeping exceeding $300 in value; and in case of loss of any such property so deposited for safekeeping, the proprietor, manager or operator of such hotel, apartment hotel or inn shall be liable only for the actual market or pecuniary value of such property, in no event exceeding the sum of $300. Provided, that the proprietor, manager or operator of any hotel, apartment hotel or inn may, by special agreement in writing with any such guest or guests, receive property of greater value than $300 and assume liability as shall be provided for in such written agreement.
Except as provided for in Section 2 of this act,1 whenever the proprietor, manager or operator of any hotel, apartment hotel or inn shall have complied with the provisions of Section 1 of this act2 such proprietor, manager or operator shall not be liable for the loss of or damage to personal property brought into such hotel, apartment hotel or inn by any of the guests thereof exceeding $250 in value, whether such loss or damage is occasioned by the negligence of such proprietor, manager or operator, or his, her or its servants, or employees or otherwise; nor shall such proprietor, manager or operator be liable for the loss of or damages to any merchandise samples or merchandise for sale unless the guests bringing such merchandise into such hotel, apartment hotel or inn shall have given such proprietor, manager or operator prior written notice of having the same in his possession, together with the value thereof, and receipt of which notice shall have been acknowledged in writing, but in no event shall such liability exceed the sum of $100 for each trunk and its contents; the sum of $75 for each valise and its contents; the sum of $25 for each package, box or bundle; the sum of $50 for all other miscellaneous effects and property including wearing apparel, but in no event shall the total liability exceed the sum of $250, unless such proprietor, manager or operator shall have contracted in writing with such guest to assume a greater liability. In case of the loss of or damage to any property left in any hotel, apartment hotel or inn by a guest, after he has departed therefrom, and has ceased to be a guest thereof, the liability of such proprietor, manager or operator shall be that of “gratuitous bailee”, and in such case the extent of such liability shall be limited to not more than the sum of $50. In case of loss or damage to any property while being transported to or from any hotel, apartment hotel or inn by the proprietor, manager or operator thereof, for or on behalf of such guest, the liability of such proprietor, manager or operator shall be limited to the sum of $100 for each trunk and its contents; the sum of $75 for each valise and its contents; the sum of $25 for each package, box or bundle; the sum of $50 for all other miscellaneous effects and property, including wearing apparel, but in no event shall such liability exceed the sum of $250, unless such proprietor, manager or operator shall have contracted in writing with such guest to assume a greater liability.
Credit Surcharge
With respect to all sales transactions, a discount which a seller offers, allows or otherwise makes available for the purpose of inducing payment by cash, check or similar means rather than by use of an open-end credit card account shall not constitute a credit service charge. No seller in any sales transaction may impose a surcharge on a cardholder who elects an open-end credit card or debit card account instead of paying by cash, check or similar means.
No seller in any sales transaction may impose a surcharge on a cardholder who elects to use a credit card or debit card in lieu of payment by cash, check or similar means.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes transient occupancy in a hotel or motel from landlord tenant law.
Sick Leave PTO
Prohibits any state legislation or local ordinance from mandating a minimum number of vacation or sick leave days.
Innkeeper Laws
In all cases other than provided in ORS 699.005 to 699.060, where liability is imposed by law upon a hotelkeeper or innkeeper for loss of or damage to the personal property of a guest of such hotelkeeper or innkeeper, the liability of such hotelkeeper or innkeeper for the loss or damage to the personal property of such guest shall be limited to $50, except when the loss or damage is due to the theft or gross negligence of the innkeeper or hotelkeeper or any of the servants of either.
When a guest has become a trespasser under ORS 164.243 and if that guest refuses to depart from a transient lodging in sufficient time for the hotelkeeper to honor a confirmed reservation, the hotelkeeper may have the guest and chattels of the guest removed by a police officer without incurring any liability to the guest for removal and, if appropriate, may retain possession of the chattels pursuant to ORS 87.156.
No innkeeper or hotelkeeper, whether individual, partnership or corporation, who constantly has in the inn or hotel a metal safe or suitable vault in good order, and fit for the custody of money, bank notes, railroad mileage books or tickets, negotiable or valuable papers and bullion, jewelry, articles of gold and silver manufacture, precious stones or ornaments which are owned, used, held or carried by any guest not as sample merchandise or for sale, and who keeps on the doors of the sleeping rooms used by guests, locks or bolts, and who keeps a copy of ORS 164.125 and 699.005 to 699.060 conspicuously posted in the hotel or inn, as provided in ORS 699.060, is liable for the loss of or injury to such property suffered by any guest, unless the guest has offered to deliver the property to the innkeeper or hotelkeeper for custody in such metal safe or vault, and the innkeeper or hotelkeeper has omitted or refused to take it and deposit it in such safe or vault for custody and to give such guest therefor a receipt, claim check or key to a separate compartment or box in such metal safe or vault. However, the keeper of any inn or hotel is not obliged to receive from any one guest for deposit in such safe or vault any property described and enumerated in this section exceeding a total value of $300, and shall not be liable to such guest for loss or damage to such property described and enumerated in this section in excess of the sum of $300, whether received or not; except that the innkeeper or hotelkeeper may by special arrangement with a guest receive for deposit in such safe or vault any property, other than that described and enumerated in this section upon such terms as they may agree to in writing. Every innkeeper or hotelkeeper is liable for the loss of any property of a guest in the inn or hotel, whether or not the property has been accepted for safekeeping as provided in this section, if the loss is due to the theft or negligence of the innkeeper, hotelkeeper or any of the servants of the innkeeper or hotelkeeper.
It is the duty of every guest and of every one intending to be a guest of any hotel in this state, upon delivering to the proprietor of such hotel or to servants of the proprietor, any baggage or other articles of property of such guest for safekeeping (elsewhere than to the room assigned to such guest), to demand and of such hotel proprietor to give, a claim check or receipt therefor in such case, to evidence the fact of such delivery. No hotel proprietor shall be liable for the loss of or injury to such baggage or other article of property of such guests, unless the property was actually delivered by the guest to the hotel proprietor or to servants of the proprietor for safekeeping, or unless the loss or injury occurred through the negligence of the hotel proprietor or by servants or employees in the hotel. However, the innkeeper or hotelkeeper may by special arrangement with a guest receive any baggage or other articles of property of such guest for safekeeping upon such terms as they may agree to in writing.
The liability of the keeper of any inn or hotel, whether individual, partnership, or corporation, for loss or injury to personal property placed by guests under the care of the keeper, other than that described in ORS 699.010 and 699.020, shall be that of a depository for hire. However, in no case shall such liability exceed $150 for each trunk and its contents, $50 for each valise and its contents and $10 for each box, bundle or package and contents so placed under the care of the keeper, and $50 for all other miscellaneous effects, including wearing apparel and personal belongings, unless the keeper has consented in writing with the guest to assume a greater liability.
If any person suffers baggage or property to remain in any inn or hotel after leaving it as a guest, and after the relation of innkeeper and guest between the guest and proprietor of the inn or hotel has ceased, or forwards baggage or property to the inn or hotel before becoming a guest thereof and the baggage or property received into the inn or hotel, the innkeeper or hotelkeeper, if the keeper holds such baggage or property, shall hold it solely at the risk of such person.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes transient occupancy in a hotel or motel from landlord tenant law.
Note that a guest commits the crime of criminal trespass in the second degree if that guest intentionally remains unlawfully in a transient lodging after their checkout date and without the approval of the hotel manager.
Allows hotel guests to be removed by a police officer if the guest becomes a trespasser.
Maximum Guest Rate
A hotelkeeper or innkeeper may not charge a facility fee in addition to the price of rental of a guest room in the hotel or inn unless the hotelkeeper or innkeeper discloses the facility fee at the time that a guest reserves or rents a guest room, whichever is sooner.
A travel arrangement company that facilitates the reservation or rental of a guest room in a hotel or inn shall disclose at the time of reservation or rental, whichever is sooner, any facility fee that the hotel or inn charges in addition to the price of rental of a guest room.
This section does not prohibit the hotelkeeper or innkeeper from assessing any state or local transient lodging taxes.
Guest Privacy
The hotelkeeper or campground owner of a lodging establishment shall maintain, for a period of three years, a guest register which shows the name, residence, date of arrival and departure of guests of the lodging establishment.
Every guest shall register. A registering guest may be required by the hotelkeeper or campground owner to produce a valid driver's license or other identification, satisfactory to the hotelkeeper or campground owner, containing a photograph of the guest and setting forth the name and residence address of the guest.
If the guest is a minor, the hotelkeeper or campground owner may also require a parent of the guest to register, accepting in writing liability for the lodging cost, taxes, all charges by the minor and any damages to the lodging accommodations or its furnishings caused by the minor while a guest at the lodging establishment.
The guest register shall be maintained in its original form or may be reproduced on any photographic, photostatic, microfilm, microcard, miniature photographic or other process which actually reproduces the original record.
Landlord Tenant
Pennsylvania law does not explicitly include or exclude hotels from landlord tenant law
Allows hotel managers to refuse accommodations to guests who are unable or unwilling to pay, are disorderly, is seeking accommodation for an unlawful purpose, is in possession of. dangerous item such as an explosive or firearm, or if admitting them will exceed occupancy limits. Also allows hotel managers to eject individuals from a hotel for violating hotel rules.
Sick Leave PTO
no laws on sick leave or PTO for private employers found
Innkeeper Laws
A hotelkeeper and campground owner shall have the right to refuse or deny accommodations, facilities or privileges of a lodging establishment to any of the following:
(1) A person who is unwilling or unable to pay for the accommodations and services of the lodging establishment. The hotelkeeper or campground owner shall have the right to require that prospective guests demonstrate their ability to pay by cash, a valid credit card or a certified or cashier's check. If a minor is not accompanied by his parent or legal guardian, the hotelkeeper or campground owner may require the minor's parent or legal guardian to do one of the following:
(i) Accept, in writing, liability for the lodging cost, taxes, all charges by the minor and any damages in excess of normal wear and tear to the lodging accommodations and its amenities caused by the minor while a guest at the lodging establishment. Damages shall be calculated at the cost of labor and materials for repair by the lodging establishment.
(ii) Provide the hotelkeeper or campground owner with a valid credit card number and authorization to cover the lodging cost, taxes, charges by the minor and any damages to the lodging accommodations and its amenities caused by the minor.
(iii) Require all of the following, if a credit card authorization is not provided - an advanced cash payment to cover the lodging cost and taxes for all nights reserved for the minor; a cash damage deposit in an amount not to exceed the cost of one night's accommodations, including taxes, for payment of additional charges by the minor or for damages to the lodging accommodations and its amenities. The hotelkeeper or campground owner shall refund the cash deposit to the extent that it is not used to cover any reasonable charges or damages, as determined by the hotelkeeper or campground owner following lodging inspection at checkout.
(2) A person who is disorderly.
(3) A person who the hotelkeeper or campground owner reasonably believes is seeking accommodations for an unlawful purpose, including the unlawful possession or use of a controlled substance by the person or the use of the premises for the consumption of alcoholic beverages by any person under 21 years of age.
(4) A person who the hotelkeeper or campground owner reasonably believes is bringing into the lodging establishment property which may be dangerous to other persons, including explosives or illegal firearms.
(5) A person who exceeds the maximum number of persons allowed to occupy a particular lodging accommodation in the lodging establishment, as posted by the lodging establishment.
A hotelkeeper or campground owner may immediately eject a person from the lodging establishment premises for violating this chapter if a copy of the chapter is posted in a conspicuous place and manner in the lodging establishment.
This chapter shall not apply to a hotelkeeper or campground owner unless the hotelkeeper or campground owner posts a copy of this chapter at or near the guest registration desk.
If a hotelkeeper or campground owner posts in a conspicuous place notice requiring the guest or boarder to secure the room, campground-owned lodging occupied by the guest or boarder or other personal property, or, in leaving the room, campground-owned lodging or personal property to secure the property and to deposit the key with the hotelkeeper, campground owner or the clerk at the office, the hotelkeeper or campground owner shall not be liable for any baggage or personal property of the guest or boarder which may be stolen from the room, or campground-owned lodging if the guest or boarder shall neglect to do so. In order to avoid liability, the hotelkeeper or campground owner must clearly establish the fact of the room or campground-owned lodging having been left unbolted or unlocked by the guest or boarder at the time of the loss of the baggage.
Except as provided in subsection (b) and section 1324 (relating to special arrangements for safe deposit of valuables), no hotelkeeper or campground owner, whether individual, partnership or corporation, shall be liable for loss or damage to property suffered by a guest, unless the hotelkeeper or campground owner fails to constantly maintain any of the following:
(1) A metal safe or vault in good order and fit for custody of money, bank notes, jewelry, gold or silver articles, precious stones, personal ornaments, railroad mileage books or tickets, negotiable or valuable papers and bullion. This paragraph shall not apply to campground owners.
(2) Suitable locks, bolts and fastenings on the doors, transoms and windows of the sleeping rooms used by guests.
(3) A copy of this section, posted and printed in distinct type in not fewer than 10 conspicuous places throughout the hotel or inn.
Notwithstanding compliance with subsection (a), a hotelkeeper is liable for property loss or damage if a guest delivers property for custody in the safe or vault and the hotelkeeper omits or refuses to accept it, deposit it in the safe or vault or provide the guest with a receipt, except that a hotelkeeper is not:
(1) obliged to receive from any one guest property exceeding a total value of $300; or
(2) liable for an amount in excess of $300, whether or not the property was actually received.
Notwithstanding section 1323 (relating to liability for property loss or damage), a hotelkeeper or campground owner may, by special arrangement with a guest, receive any property for deposit in the safe or vault upon terms as to which the parties agree in writing, but the hotelkeeper or campground owner shall be liable for property loss or damage after the articles have been accepted for deposit, if the loss or damage is caused by theft or negligence of the hotelkeeper or campground owner.
It shall be the duty of every guest, and of anyone intending to be a guest, of any hotel, inn or recreational campground, upon delivering to the hotelkeeper of the hotel or inn or the campground owner, or a servant or employee, baggage or other property of the guest for safekeeping elsewhere than in the room or site assigned to the guest, to demand of the hotelkeeper or campground owner a check or receipt for the property to evidence the fact of delivery.
Landlord Tenant
Philadelphia does not explicitly include or exclude hotels from landlord tenant law.
Sick Leave PTO
Requires all employers with ten or more employees to provide paid sick time. Employees that are not entitled to paid sick time are entitled to unpaid sick time. Requires that one hour of sick sick time accrued for every 40 hours worked in Philadelphia to a maximum of 40 hours.
Details how sick leave can be used, including to care for an employee or family member's mental or physical illness or to seek services or counseling for matters related to domestic abuse.
Requires employers to give notice to employees that they are entitled to sick leave and the amount of leave they are entitled to. Employees must be given the notice in writing and posters will be made available to employers containing information about paid sick leave.
Requires employers to keep records of hours worked by employees and sick time taken and retain those records for two years.
Housekeeping
Requires that hotel owners keep any shared or public areas of the property in a clean and sanitary condition and generally requires that buildings be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition.
Sick Leave PTO
Details when paid sick leave can be used, including to receive care for a mental of physical illness of the employee or a family member.
Requires that every employee who has been employed by the sae employer for 12 consecutive months is entitled to 13 consecutive weeks of parental or family leave in any two calendar years if they give at least 30 days notice. Parental or family leave may consist of unpaid leave.
Requires an employer with 18 or more employees in Rhode Island accrue at least one hour of paid sick leave for every 35 hours worked up to a maximum of 40 paid sick leave hours per year.
Innkeeper Laws
If any hotelkeeper or innkeeper provides a suitable safe in his or her hotel or inn or other convenient place for the safekeeping of any money, jewels, jewelry, watches, ornaments, railroad mileage books and tickets, bank notes, bonds, negotiable securities, and precious stones, belonging to the guests of that hotel or inn, and notifies guests of the hotel or inn by posting in a public and conspicuous place and manner the fact that a safe is provided, in which that property may be deposited, and if those guests neglect or fail to deliver the property to the person in charge of the office of the hotel or inn for deposit in that safe, the hotelkeeper or innkeeper is not liable for any loss of that property sustained by the guests by theft or otherwise. No hotelkeeper or innkeeper is obliged to receive property on deposit for safekeeping exceeding $500 in value. If guests deliver property exceeding $500 in value to the person in charge of the office for deposit in the safe, the hotelkeeper or innkeeper is not liable for any loss of the property sustained by those guests by theft or otherwise in any sum exceeding $500, unless by special agreement, in writing, with the hotelkeeper or innkeeper.
No hotelkeeper or innkeeper is liable in any sum to any guest for the loss of any wearing apparel, goods, merchandise, or other personal property not mentioned in § 5-14-1, where it appears that the loss occurred without the fault or negligence of the hotelkeeper or innkeeper; nor is any hotelkeeper or innkeeper liable in any sum for the loss of any article or articles belonging to any guest and not within a room assigned to him or her, unless the article or articles are specially entrusted to the care and custody of the hotelkeeper or innkeeper or his or her agents or servants by special agreement, in writing, with the hotelkeeper or innkeeper.
An innkeeper may remove or cause to be removed from a hotel a guest or other person who:
(1) Refuses or is unable to pay for accommodations or services;
(2) While on the premises of the hotel, acts in an obviously intoxicated manner, destroys or threatens to destroy hotel property, verbally or physically threatens employees or guests, or causes or threatens to cause a public disturbance;
(3) The innkeeper has direct knowledge a person is using the premises for the unlawful possession or use of controlled substances by the person, or using the premises for the consumption of alcohol by a person under the age of 21 years of age;
(4) The innkeeper has direct knowledge a person has brought property into the hotel that may be dangerous to other persons, such as firearms or explosives;
(5) A person violates any federal, state, or local laws, ordinances, or rules relating to the hotel;
(6) Violates a rule of the hotel that is clearly and conspicuously posted at or near the front desk and posted online where the guest can view it before making a reservation at the hotel; or
(7) Uses verbally abusive language towards the hotel's employees or guests. For the purposes of this chapter, verbally abusive language shall mean any language that would reasonably be found to be offensive or threatening.
(b) If the guest has paid in advance, the innkeeper shall tender to the guest any unused portion of the advance payment at the time of removal.
An innkeeper may refuse to admit or refuse service or accommodations to a person who:
(1) While on the premises of the hotel, acts in an obviously intoxicated manner, destroys or threatens to destroy hotel property, or causes or threatens to cause a public disturbance.
(2) The innkeeper has direct knowledge a person is seeking accommodations for the unlawful possession or use of controlled substances or the use of the premises for the consumption of intoxicating liquor by a person.
(3) A person under the age of 18 years who is not accompanied by an adult.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes transient occupancy in a hotel, motel or other similar lodgings from landlord tenant law
Allows an innkeeper to remove guests who are unable to pay, are disorderly, using a controlled substance, bring firearms or explosives onto the property, violates the law, violates hotel rules, or uses abusive language towards hotel staff or guests
Guest Privacy
The innkeeper of a lodging establishment shall keep for at least five years a guest register showing the name, residence, date of arrival, and departure of hotel guests. Every guest shall register, and the registering guest may be required by the innkeeper to produce a valid driver's license, or other identification satisfactory to the innkeeper, containing a photograph of the guest and setting forth the name and residence of the guest. If the guest is a minor, the innkeeper may also require a parent of the guest to register and to accept in writing liability for the guest room costs, taxes, all charges by the minor, and any damages to the guest room or its furnishings caused by the minor while a guest at the lodging establishment. The guest register may be kept within the meaning of this section when reproduced on any photographic, photostatic, microfilm, microcard, miniature photographic, or other process which actually reproduces the original record.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes transient occupancy in a hotel, motel, or other accommodation subject to sales taxes on accommodations from landlord tenant law.
Allows hotel managers to deny accommodations to individuals who are unable or unwilling to pay, are visibly intoxicated, creating a public nuisance, is believed to be seeking accommodations for an unlawful purpose, is believed to be bringing in an dangerous object such as a firearm or explosive, or where admitting them would exceed occupancy limits.
Allows hotel managers to remove individuals for nonpayment for accommodations or services, are visibly intoxicated, creating a public nuisance, believes the person is using the premises for an unlawful purpose, has brought in a dangerous object, has violated any laws or regulations, or has violated a hotel rule.
Sick Leave PTO
no laws on sick leave or PTO for private employers found
Housekeeping
For bed and breakfasts, food equipment, tableware, and utensils must be stored in a manner to avoid contamination and must be cleaned and sanitized prior to food preparation and after each use. Also establishes requirements for dishwashing machines.
Maximum Guest Rate
Every transient hotel shall keep posted in a conspicuous place in the office a list of its charges for rooms, with or without meals, in accordance with the plan on which the hotel is operated, giving the exact transient rate, and shall also keep posted in each room the rate for that room, with or without meals, in accordance with its plan as stated above, giving the transient rate per day and week and the rate for each person in the room, as well as such rates for the fractional part of a day. No hotel shall charge a higher rate for a fractional part of a day than for a whole day.
Innkeeper Laws
“Innkeeper” as used in this section shall mean the proprietor of any hotel, inn, boardinghouse, motor court, or motel where beds or lodging are for hire. Whenever an innkeeper shall post and keep posted in a conspicuous manner in the room occupied by any guest a notice requiring such guest to bolt the door of his room, or on leaving his room to lock the door and leave the keys at the office, and also to deposit such money and jewels as are not ordinarily carried upon the person in the office safe, and the guest shall neglect to comply with the requirements of such notice, the innkeeper shall not be liable for the loss of any baggage of such guest which may be lost or stolen from his room or for the loss of any money or jewels not deposited in the safe. Provided, however, that notwithstanding the provisions of this section any innkeeper who by his own negligence contributes to the loss or damage to baggage or personal property, other than money or jewelry, from guest rooms, or to the loss or damage to money or jewelry from his safe, may be liable to the guest for the actual value of such baggage or personal property or five hundred dollars, whichever is less, or the actual value of such money or jewelry or two thousand dollars, whichever is less. Provided, however, that, notwithstanding the provisions of this section, any innkeeper who by his own wilfulness contributes to the loss or damage to the personal property of a guest shall not have his liability limited in any manner by the provisions of this section.
An innkeeper may refuse or deny any accommodations, facilities, or privileges of a lodging establishment to:
(1) A person who is unwilling or unable to pay for accommodations and services of the lodging establishment. The innkeeper may require the prospective guest to demonstrate his ability to pay by cash, valid credit card, or a validated check. The innkeeper may require a parent of a minor:
(a) to accept in writing liability of the guest room costs, taxes, all charges by the minor, and any damages to the guest room or its furnishings caused by the minor while a guest at the lodging establishment; and
(b) to provide the innkeeper with a valid credit card number to cover the guest room costs, taxes, charges by the minor, and any damages to the guest room or its furnishings caused by the minor; or
(c) if the credit card is not an option, give the innkeeper an advance cash payment to cover the guest room costs and taxes for all room nights reserved for the minor; plus a one hundred dollar cash deposit towards the payment of any charges by the minor or any damages to the guest room or its furnishings, which must be refunded to the extent not used to cover any such charges or any damages as determined by the innkeeper following room inspection at check-out.
(2) A person who is visibly intoxicated or who is disorderly so as to create a public nuisance.
(3) A person whom the innkeeper reasonably believes is seeking accommodations for any unlawful purpose, including the unlawful possession or use of controlled substances by such person or the use of the premises for the consumption of beer, wine, or alcoholic liquors by a person under the age of 21 years..
(4) A person whom the innkeeper reasonably believes is bringing in property which may be dangerous to other persons including, but not limited to, firearms or explosives.
(5) A person in excess of the number of persons a lodging establishment allows to occupy a particular guest room in the lodging establishment.
The innkeeper may deduct from a refund of an advance payment to a person who has been ejected from the lodging establishment the value of one day's lodging plus half the value of lodging for any additional days remaining in the reserved period. This subsection would not preclude the innkeeper from deducting a lesser amount of the advance payment or making a full refund.
An innkeeper may eject a person from the lodging establishment premises for any of the following reasons:
(1) nonpayment of the lodging establishment's charges for accommodations or services;
(2) the person is visibly intoxicated, or the person is disorderly so as to create a public nuisance;
(3) the innkeeper reasonably believes that the person is using the premises for unlawful purposes, including the unlawful use or possession of controlled substances by the person or the use of the premises for the consumption of beer, wine, or alcoholic liquors by a person under the age of 21 years;
(4) the innkeeper reasonably believes that the person has brought property into the lodging establishment premises which may be dangerous to other persons including, but not limited to, firearms or explosives;
(5) violation of any federal, state, or local laws, or regulations relating to the lodging establishment;
(6) violation of a rule of the lodging establishment which is posted in a conspicuous place and manner in the lodging establishment, but no rule may authorize the innkeeper to eject or to refuse or deny service or accommodations to a person because of race, creed, color, national origin, gender, disability, or marital status.
Landlord Tenant
Allows hotels to eject an individual from the premises if they do not pay for accommodations or services, are disorderly, using the premises for an unlawful act, bring an explosive or destructive device onto the premises, is not a registered guest, the individual has exceeded the occupancy limits for a guest room, the accommodation was obtained under false pretenses, the person is a minor, or has violated the laws or any rules of the hotel.
South Dakota does not explicitly include or exclude hotels from landlord tenant law. However, in the chapter for leasing property, removing an individual from a hotel is a separate section from provisions relating to the eviction of a tenant.
Housekeeping
Requires that a hotel and its promises be kept clean and that housekeeping operations or conditions not constitute a health hazard.
Innkeeper Laws
No innkeeper or hotel keeper, whether individual, partnership, or corporation, who constantly has in the inn or hotel a metal safe or suitable vault in good order and who keeps on the doors of the sleeping rooms used by guests suitable locks or bolts, and on the transoms and windows of the rooms suitable fastenings and who keeps a copy of this section printed in distinct type constantly and conspicuously posted in each guest room, is liable for the loss or injury suffered by any guest, unless the guest offered to deliver any valuable property to the innkeeper or hotel keeper for custody in the metal safe or vault, and the innkeeper or hotel keeper omitted or refused to take it and deposit it in the safe or vault for custody and to give the guest a receipt. However, the keeper of any inn or hotel is not obliged to receive from any one guest for deposit in the safe or vault any property exceeding a total value of three hundred dollars, and is not liable for any excess of such property, whether received or not.
Any such innkeeper or hotel keeper may by special arrangement with a guest receive for deposit in such safe or vault any property upon such terms as they may agree to in writing, but every innkeeper or hotel keeper shall be liable for any loss of the above enumerated articles of a guest in his inn or hotel after said articles have been accepted for deposit if caused by the theft or negligence of the innkeeper, hotel keeper, or any of his servants.
It shall be the duty of every guest and of everyone intending to be a guest of any hotel in this state, upon delivering to the proprietor of such hotel, or to his servants, any baggage or other articles of property of such guest for safekeeping, elsewhere than to the room assigned to such guest, to demand, and of such hotel proprietor to give, a check or receipt therefor in such case, to evidence the fact of such delivery.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes transient occupancy in a hotel or motel from landlord tenant law.
Gives hotel keepers the right to control access and admission or exclusion of persons to or from their public houses, means of transportation and places of amusement is to be as complete as that of any private person over the private person's private house, vehicle, private theater or places of amusement for the private person's family.
Housekeeping
Establishes minimum requirements for hotel health and safety. Does not directly address housekeeping, but does require guest rooms and common areas to be clean.
Maximum Guest Rate
The person in charge of and conducting any hotel shall post in a conspicuous place in each room of the hotel a card or sign plainly stating the price per day of each room and, in case the hotel is conducted on the American plan, the rate charged for meals. The cards or signs shall be dated as of the day on which they are posted.
No person shall display or cause to be displayed any sign on the premises that includes, in dollars and cents, a statement of the rates charged at a hotel, unless twenty-five percent (25%) of all rooms in that facility are available at the quoted or advertised rate at all times the sign is posted.
Innkeeper Laws
When the proprietor of any hotel or inn provides a safe in the office in the hotel or inn or other convenient place for the safekeeping of any money, jewels or ornaments belonging to the guests of the hotel or inn or for any samples of merchandise of any kind carried by drummers or commercial travelers and notifies the guests of the hotel or inn by posting a notice that states the fact that in the safe or other convenient place money, jewels, ornaments or samples may be deposited in the rooms occupied by the guests, in a conspicuous manner, and if the guests neglect to deposit the money, jewels, ornaments or samples of merchandise in the safe or other convenient place, the proprietor is not liable for any loss of the money, jewels, ornaments or samples of merchandise sustained by the guest, by theft, or otherwise.
The liability of the hotel or inn keeper for the safekeeping in the safe or other convenient place as provided in § 62-7-103 shall be limited to an amount not exceeding three hundred dollars ($300), unless a written contract is entered into providing a greater liability between the guest and the proprietor of the hotel or inn. The notice required to be posted by the proprietor of the hotel or inn in a conspicuous manner in the rooms occupied by the guests shall contain a recitation of the limitation of liability as provided in this section and the provision of greater liability being dependent upon a written contract between the proprietor and the guest.
The rule of the common law giving a right of action to any person excluded from any hotel, public means of transportation or place of amusement is abrogated.
No keeper of any hotel or public house, or carrier of passengers for hire, except railways, street, interurban and commercial, or conductors, drivers or employees of the carrier or keeper, shall be bound or under any obligation to entertain, carry or admit any person whom the keeper, carrier, conductor, driver or their employees shall, for any reason whatever, choose not to entertain, carry or admit to their house, hotel, vehicle, means of transportation or place of amusement. Nor shall any right exist in favor of the person so refused admission.
The right of keepers of hotels and public houses, carriers of passengers and keepers of places of amusement and their employees to control the access and admission or exclusion of persons to or from their public houses, means of transportation and places of amusement is to be as complete as that of any private person over the private person's private house, vehicle, private theater or places of amusement for the private person's family.
Guest Privacy
Every person operating a hotel, roominghouse, or short term rental property, engaged in the business of lodging transients, shall keep a book or register in which shall be listed the name and address of each of its guests or lodgers, together with the date of arrival and the date of departure.
Such book or register shall be kept so as to show arrivals and departures of guests for a period of at least six months.
Every person operating a hotel or roominghouse and the employees thereof shall exhibit such book or register to any member of the police department upon the written request of the chief of police or any duly appointed deputy chief of police.
If inspection of the book or register is refused, the operator, manager, or person in charge shall secure the book or register in the manner required by the requesting police officer, so that its contents are preserved. The book or register shall be kept in the secured location until such time as an administrative or judicial search warrant, subpoena, or order can be granted or denied, and any appeal resolved.
It is unlawful for any person to write or cause to be written or knowingly permit to be written in any register in any hotel, lodginghouse, roominghouse or other place whatsoever where transients are accommodated in the area of the metropolitan government, any other or different name or designation than the true name of the person so registered therein, or the name by which such person is generally known.
Housekeeping
Requires that hotel owners keep any shared or public areas of the property in a clean and sanitary condition and generally requires that buildings be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition.
Innkeeper Laws
If a hotel, motel, or roominghouse accepts cash payment, it must further accept at least one other form of payment, such as credit card, debit card, or check.
Upon payment by a guest for accommodation, a hotel, motel, or roominghouse must provide the patron with a receipt reflecting payment and maintain a record thereof.
Housekeeping
Requires hotel operators or managers to wash dishes and silverware before providing it to a guest.
Hotel managers or owners must ensure units have been thoroughly cleaned and have been furnished with clean and sanitary sheets, towels, and pillowcases.
Maximum Guest Rate
A hotel owner or keeper shall post a card or sign in a conspicuous place in each hotel room stating the daily room rate; and the date the card or sign was posted.
An increase in the daily room rate is not effective until the 30th day after the date a card or sign with the increased rate is posted.
The owner or keeper of a hotel having 20 or more rooms shall give a guest assigned a room a ticket showing the daily room rate being charged for the room. The room rate on the ticket must conform with the rate posted.
Innkeeper Laws
Applies only to a hotel, apartment hotel, or boardinghouse keeper who continuously maintains a metal safe or vault in the keeper's hotel, apartment hotel, or boardinghouse that is in good order and fit for the custody of money, jewelry, silver or gold articles, precious stones, personal ornaments, or documents; and keeps suitable locks or bolts on the guests' sleeping room doors and proper fastenings on the transom and window of guest rooms.
A hotel, apartment hotel, or boardinghouse keeper is not liable for a loss or injury suffered by a guest from the loss of valuables in an amount of more than $50 if the valuables could reasonably have been kept in the safe or vault of the hotel, apartment hotel, or boardinghouse; the loss or injury does not occur through the negligence or wrongdoing of the keeper or an employee of the hotel, apartment hotel, or boardinghouse; and a printed copy of this section is posted on the door of the guest's sleeping room.
This does not apply if the guest offered to deliver the valuables to the hotel, apartment hotel, or boardinghouse keeper for custody in the safe or vault; and the hotel, apartment hotel, boarding hotel, or boardinghouse keeper did not deposit the valuables in the safe or vault; and issue a receipt for the valuables.
A hotel, apartment hotel, or boardinghouse keeper may hold a person's property, including baggage, at the keeper's option and at the property owner's risk if the property owner forwards the property to the hotel, apartment hotel, or boardinghouse before becoming a guest; leaves the property in the hotel, apartment hotel, or boardinghouse lobby before checking the property or becoming a guest; or allows the property to remain in the hotel, apartment hotel, or boardinghouse after the innkeeper and guest relationship has ceased and without checking the property.
If a person checks property at a hotel, apartment hotel, or boardinghouse and leaves the property at the hotel, apartment hotel, or boardinghouse free of charge for one week without being a guest, the hotel, apartment hotel, or boardinghouse keeper may, absent a special agreement, continue to hold the property after the first week at the property owner's risk.
Credit Surcharge
In a sale of goods or services, a seller may not impose a surcharge on a buyer who uses a credit card for an extension of credit instead of cash, a check, or a similar means of payment.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes hotels, motels and other transient housing from landlord tenant laws.
Sick Leave PTO
Requires employers in Dallas to provide at least one hour of earned paid sick time for every 30 hours work.
Allows employees to restrict using paid sick time during the first 60 days of employment if they have established that the employee will be employed for at least one year. Details when sick time can be used, including to care for an employee's or a family member's physical or mental illness ro to seek medical attention or other services for being a victim of domestic violence.
Provides definitions. Notes that an employee is any individual who performs at least 80 hours of work for pay in Dallas for an employer.
Landlord Tenant
Utah does not explicitly include or exclude hotels from landlord tenant and other real estate and property laws.
Establishes innkeepers rights. Allows inkepers to deny or refuse accommodations to any person who is unwilling or unable to pay, is visibly intoxicated, is creating a public nuisance, or is in possession of a weapon or an illegal controlled substance.
Innkeeper Laws
If an innkeeper, hotel keeper, boarding house keeper, or lodging house keeper keeps on the premises a fireproof safe or vault, and gives notice to guests, boarders or lodgers, by posting a copy of this section in a prominent or conspicuous place in the office of the inn, hotel, boarding house or lodging house and in the rooms occupied by the guests, boarders or lodgers, that the keeper keeps for their use a fireproof safe or vault and will not be liable for money, jewelry, documents or other articles of unusual value and small compass, unless placed therein, the keeper is not liable, except so far as the keeper's acts or the acts of the keeper's employees shall contribute thereto, for any loss of or injury to such articles, if not deposited with the keeper to be placed in such safe or vault, or in any case for more than the sum of $250 for any such property, unless the keeper shall have given a receipt in writing therefor to the guest, boarder or lodger, and the value of the article so placed with the keeper for safekeeping shall have been declared by such guest, boarder or lodger.
An innkeeper, hotel keeper, boarding house or lodging house keeper is not required to receive from a guest for deposit in such safe or vault, property described in the next preceding section exceeding a total value of $250, and is not liable for such property exceeding such value whether received or not. Such innkeeper, hotel keeper, boarding house or lodging house keeper, by special arrangement with a guest, may receive for deposit in such safe or vault property upon such written terms as may be agreed upon. A person who is an innkeeper, hotel keeper, boarding house or lodging house keeper shall be liable for a loss of any of such property of a guest in the person's inn caused by the theft or negligence of the innkeeper or the innkeeper's servant.
The liability of a person who is an innkeeper, hotel keeper, boarding or lodging house keeper, for loss of or injury to personal property placed in the person's care by the person's guests other than that described, shall be that of a depositary for hire.
The liability may not exceed $150 for each trunk and its contents, $50 for each valise, suitcase or other piece of hand luggage and its contents, and $10 for each box, bundle or package, and its contents, so placed in the person's care, unless the person has consented in writing with the guest to assume a greater liability.
An innkeeper may refuse or deny accommodations, facilities, or privileges of a lodging establishment to any person who is unwilling or unable to pay for the accommodations and services of the lodging establishment; visibly intoxicated; creating a public nuisance; in the reasonable belief of the innkeeper, seeking accommodations for any unlawful purpose, including the unlawful possession or use of controlled substances in violation of federal or state law; or use of the premises for the consumption of alcoholic beverages by any person under 21 years of age in violation of federal or state law; or in the reasonable belief of the innkeeper, bringing in property that may be dangerous to other persons, including firearms or explosives; require a prospective guest prior to check-in to demonstrate the guest's ability to pay either in cash, by credit card, or with a validated check; require a parent or legal guardian of a minor to promise in writing to pay all guest room costs, taxes, and charges incurred by the minor at a lodging establishment and any damages to the lodging establishment and its furnishings caused by the minor while a guest at the lodging establishment; provide an innkeeper with a valid credit card number to cover potential charges and any potential damages to the lodging establishment and its furnishings caused by the minor; or if a valid credit card is not an option, provide an innkeeper with an advance cash payment to cover the guest room costs and taxes for the anticipated stay of the minor; and a deposit, not to exceed $500, towards the payment of any charges by the minor or any damages to the lodging establishment or its furnishings, which deposit shall be refunded to the extent not used to cover any damages as determined by the innkeeper following room inspection at check-out; require a guest to produce a valid driver's license, or other identification satisfactory to the innkeeper, containing a photograph and the name and address of the guest; if the guest is a minor, require a parent or guardian of the guest to register and produce identification; limit the number of persons who may occupy a guest room in the lodging establishment; eject a person from a lodging establishment for any of the following reasons: nonpayment of the lodging establishment's charges for accommodations or services; visible intoxication of the guest; disorderly conduct of the guest resulting in a public nuisance; or the innkeeper reasonably believes that the person has violated this chapter or any federal, state, or local law or regulation relating to the lodging establishment; or any rule of the lodging establishment posted in a conspicuous place and manner in the lodging establishment.
An innkeeper shall make a copy of this chapter available to any guest upon request.
Guest Privacy
Each keeper of a hotel, inn, lodging house, or roadside camp or cabin shall keep or cause to be kept a record in which shall be recorded the true name and residence of each person engaging or occupying a private room containing a bed or couch or opening into a room containing a bed or couch for any period of the day or night, in any part of the premises controlled by the owner, manager, or lessee. Each keeper shall preserve such registration record for three years.
A person shall not write, or cause to be written, or if in charge of the registration record, knowingly permit to be written, in any such registration record of any hotel, inn, lodging house, or roadside camp or cabin any other or different name or designation than the true name in ordinary use of the person registering or causing himself or herself to be registered therein. Nor shall any person occupying such room fail to register or fail to cause himself or herself to be so registered.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes transient occupancy in a hotel or motel from landlord tenant law.
Sick Leave PTO
Requires that employees accrue at least one hour of sick time for every 52 hours worked. Also allows employers to require a waiting period of up to one year for newly hired employees were sick time can be earned but not used until the waiting period is over.
Details how earned sick time can be used, including seeking care if an employee is sick or injured, obtaining preventative care, caring for sick or injured family member, or arranging social or legal services or obtaining medical care of counseling for being the victim of domestic violence.
Exempts new employers from sick leave requirements for one year after they hire their first employee.
Grants employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid parental or family leave following the birth of a child, adoption of a child that is 16 years old or younger, or for the serious illness of the employee or a member of the employees family.
Grants employees unpaid leave of up to four hours in any 30 day period to participate in school activities, attend or accompany a child to medical or dental appointments, respond to medical emergencies involving a child, or accompanying family member to professional services appointments related to their care and well being.
Housekeeping
Establishes rules for lodging establishments and generally requires common area and guest rooms to be kept clean and in good repair
Requires that guest rooms be kept clean and in good repair.
Sick Leave PTO
Details when sick leave can be used, including to care for an employee or family members physical or mental illness.
Housekeeping
Requires hotel facilities to be kept in clean conditions and in good repair.
Requires hotel units, hallways, and store rooms used by guests to be clean and in good repair.
Requires walls and ceilings of lodging units, hallways, bathrooms, and store rooms used by guests to be clean and in good repair in a manner that minimizes dust.
Requires hotel furnishings, including drapes and carpets, to be kept clean and free of dust, dirt, vermin, and other contaminants.
Details requirements for box springs, mattresses, bedding, and laundry storage rooms
Requires toilets, lavatories, and bath facilities to be kept in a clean and sanitary condition
Lists requirements for solid waste disposal and wastebaskets
Maximum Guest Rate
Every hotel shall post in a conspicuous place in its office a list of the ranges of the charges for its rooms and shall post in each guest's room the maximum charge for that room. If the hotel is operated on the American or modified American plan, the notice shall contain the maximum charge for the room and the number of meals provided.
All operators shall post conspicuously in each lodging unit occupied by transient guests the rates for the room together with §§ 8.01-42.2, 35.1-27 and 35.1-28 of the Code of Virginia in which are prescribed the duties, liability of guests for hotel damage, and limitation of liability of guests for hotel damage from innkeepers.
Landlord Tenant
Notes that it is unlawful for any person to stay in a hotel or motel for more than 30 days in any 60 day period except in certain circumstances.
Sick Leave PTO
No additional laws on sick leave or PTO for private employers found
Innkeeper Laws
It shall be unlawful for any person to rent or occupy any room in any rooming house, hotel or motel in this city for illegal or unlawful purposes, or for the proprietor, manager or other person in charge of any such rooming house, hotel or motel to rent, assign to or permit any person to occupy any such room, with knowledge that they intend to use it for illegal or unlawful purposes.
It shall be unlawful for any person to let any room in any rooming house, hotel or motel in the city more than once between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. of the next day.
Guest Privacy
Every person conducting or maintaining any rooming house, hotel or motel in the city shall keep a record in which the following information shall be entered legibly either in electronic, ink, or typewritten form prior to the room being furnished to the guest: (1)The name and home address of each guest and the total number of guests; (2)The day, month, year and time of arrival of each guest and the date of check out or departure; (3)The room number assigned to each guest; (4)The date each guest is scheduled to depart; (5)The rate charged and amount collected for rental of the room assigned to each guest; (6)The method of payment for each room; (7)The full name and home address of the person checking in each guest; and (8)The make, type and license number of the guest's vehicle if the vehicle will be parked on the premises.
The guest register shall be kept on the premises of the rooming house, hotel or motel in the guest reception area or guest check-in area or in an office adjacent to that area. The record shall be maintained at that location for two years from and after the date of the last entry in the record.
The guest register shall be subject to inspection at any and all reasonable times. If inspection of the guest register is refused, the operator, manager, or person in charge, shall secure the guest register in the manner required by and in the presence of the person designated in section 22-3 to ensure that no one can tamper with the record until such time as an administrative search warrant can be obtained or denied.
No person shall alter, deface, or erase any record so as to make the information recorded in it illegible or unintelligible, or hinder, obstruct, or interfere with any inspection of the record.
Any record maintained in the form of a book shall be permanently bound, with each page sequentially numbered. No page shall be removed from the book. Any record maintained in the form of cards shall be on cards that are numbered sequentially and used in sequence. If the record is maintained electronically, the record shall be printable.
It shall be unlawful for any person to write, or cause to be written, or knowingly permit to be written, in any book or register in any rooming house, hotel or motel in the city, any other or different name or designation than the true name of the person registered therein. A photo identification or other acceptable form of identification may be required to be produced at registration.
It shall be the duty of every person in charge of operating or owning a rooming house, hotel or motel within the city to keep a list, either in the register or separately, of the names and ages of all minors, together with the names and addresses of their parents or guardians, who shall register or rent or occupy any room or series of rooms therein for more than seven (7) consecutive days. If such list is kept separately from the register, it shall be subject to inspection at all reasonable times pursuant to subsection 22-7(c) of this chapter.
Guest Privacy
Every person conducting any lodging place in the city shall at all times keep and maintain therein a guest register, in which shall be inscribed, electronically, or with indelible ink, the name and valid home address of each guest or person renting or occupying a room or camping space therein, as well as the vehicle description and license plate information of any vehicle being used by such guest. Such register shall be signed by the person renting a room or camping space, or by someone signing by his or her authority. The proprietor of such lodging place, or his or her agent, shall thereupon enter or write, electronically, or with indelible ink, opposite such name so registered, the number of each room or camping space assigned to and occupied by such guest, together with the date(s) and time(s) when such room or camping space is rented. Until all of the aforesaid entries have been made in such register, no guest shall be suffered or permitted to occupy any room in such lodging place. When the occupant of a room or camping space so rented vacates and surrenders the same, it shall be the duty of the proprietor of the lodging place, or his or her agent, to enter into such registry the time the room was surrendered by the occupant and maintain for one year, a record of the date(s) when such room or camping space was vacated and surrendered.(b)The guest vehicle parking area of every lodging place shall be accessible at any and all reasonable times to any public safety officer in the performance of his or her duties.
It shall be unlawful for any person to write, or cause to be written, or knowingly permit to be written, in any guest register in any lodging place in the city, any other or different name or designation than the true name of the person registered therein, or the name by which such person is generally known, or to enter false information regarding any vehicle.
Sick Leave PTO
No additional laws on sick leave or PTO for private employers found
Maximum Guest Rate
Except in those instances where the same rates apply to all units, apartments and/or rooms in a lodging place at all times, without regard to seasons, no person shall display or cause to be displayed in the city any sign or signs, which may be seen from a public highway or street, which sign or signs include, in dollars and cents, a statement relating to the rates charged for accommodations at a lodging place, unless such sign or signs include, in letters and figures of similar size and prominence, the following additional information:
(1)The total number of units, apartments or rooms in the lodging place and the actual number thereof available for rental and occupancy at each rate quoted.(2)Whether the rates quoted are for single or multiple occupancy, where such fact affects the rates charged.(3)The dates during which such rates are in effect, where such dates affect the rates charged.
The rates displayed on such sign or signs shall in each instance coincide with the rates posted in the units, apartments and/or rooms of the lodging place and such sign or signs shall not have thereon rates for any accommodations not offered to the public or any false, untrue, misleading, deceptive or fraudulent statement, representation or information relating to rates.
Innkeeper Laws
It shall be unlawful for any person conducting or managing any lodging place in the city to permit any room or space to be occupied in excess of the maximum occupant load for such room or space, as established by the fire marshal in accordance with the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code.
Housekeeping
Establishes requirements for transient accommodations. Requires that hotel rooms, including bedding and bathrooms, are clean and sanitary. Also requires common areas to be clean and sanitary and for bathrooms to have adequate, clean facilities.
Innkeeper Laws
Whenever the proprietor, keeper, owner, operator, lessee, or manager of any hotel, lodging house or inn shall provide a safe or vault for the safekeeping of any money, bank notes, jewelry, precious stones, ornaments, railroad mileage books or tickets, negotiable securities or other valuable papers, bullion, or other valuable property of small compass belonging to the guests, boarders or lodgers of such hotel, lodging house or inn, and shall notify the guests, boarders or lodgers thereof by posting a notice in three or more public and conspicuous places in the office, elevators, public rooms, elevator lobbies, public corridors, halls or entrances, or in the public parlors of such hotel, lodging house or inn, stating the fact that such safe or vault is provided in which such property may be deposited; and if such guests, boarders or lodgers shall neglect to deliver such property to the person in charge of such office, for deposit in the safe or vault, the proprietor, keeper, owner, operator, lessee or manager, whether individual, partnership or corporation, of such hotel, lodging house or inn shall not be liable for any loss or destruction of any such property, or any damage thereto, sustained by such guests, boarders or lodgers, by negligence of such proprietor, keeper, owner, operator, lessee or manager, or his, her, their or its employees, or by fire, theft, burglary, or any other cause whatsoever; but no proprietor, keeper, owner, operator, lessee or manager of any hotel, lodging house or inn, shall be obliged to receive property on deposit for safekeeping exceeding one thousand dollars in value; and if such guests, boarders or lodgers shall deliver such property to the person in charge of said office for deposit in such safe or vault, said proprietor, keeper, owner, operator, lessee, or manager, shall not be liable for the loss or destruction thereof, or damage thereto, sustained by such guests, boarders or lodgers in any such hotel, lodging house, or inn, exceeding the sum of one thousand dollars, notwithstanding said property may be of greater value, unless by special arrangement in writing with such proprietor, keeper, owner, operator, lessee or manager: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That in case of such deposit of such property, the proprietor, keeper, owner, operator, lessee or manager of such hotel, lodging house, or inn, shall in no event be liable for loss or destruction thereof, or damage thereto, unless caused by the theft or gross negligence of such proprietor, keeper, owner, operator, lessee, or manager, of his, her, their, or its agents, servants or employees.
Except as provided for in RCW 19.48.030, the proprietor, keeper, owner, operator, lessee, or manager, whether individual, partnership, or corporation, of a hotel, lodging house, or inn, shall not be liable for the loss or destruction of, or damage to any personal property brought or sent into such hotel, lodging house, or inn, by or for any of the guests, boarders, or lodgers thereof, unless such loss, destruction, or damage is occasioned by the gross negligence of such proprietor, keeper, owner, operator, lessee, or manager, or his, her, their, or its agents, servants, or employees; but in no event shall such liability exceed the sum of two hundred dollars, unless such proprietor, keeper, owner, operator, lessee, or manager, shall have contracted in writing with such guest, boarder, or lodger to assume a greater liability: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That in no event shall liability of the proprietor, keeper, owner, operator, lessee, or manager, or his, her, their, or its agents, servants or employees, of a hotel, lodging house, or inn exceed the following: For a guest, boarder, or lodger, paying twenty-five cents per day, for lodging, or for any person who is not a guest, boarder, or lodger, the liability for loss, destruction, or damage, shall not exceed the sum of fifty dollars for a trunk and contents, ten dollars for a suitcase or valise and contents, five dollars for a box, bundle, or package, and ten dollars for wearing apparel or miscellaneous effects. For a guest, boarder, or lodger, paying fifty cents a day for lodging, the liability for loss, destruction, or damage shall not exceed seventy-five dollars for a trunk and contents, twenty dollars for a suitcase or valise and contents, ten dollars for a box, bundle, or package and contents, and twenty dollars for wearing apparel and miscellaneous effects. For a guest, boarder, or lodger paying more than fifty cents per day for lodging, the liability for loss, destruction, or damage shall not exceed one hundred fifty dollars for a trunk and contents, fifty dollars for a suitcase or valise and contents, ten dollars for a box, bundle, or package and contents, and fifty dollars for wearing apparel and miscellaneous effects, unless in such case such proprietor, keeper, owner, operator, lessee, or manager of such hotel, lodging house, or inn, shall have consented in writing to assume a greater liability: AND PROVIDED FURTHER, Whenever any person shall suffer his or her baggage or property to remain in any hotel, lodging house, or inn, after leaving the same as a guest, boarder, or lodger, and after the relation of guest, boarder, or lodger between such person and the proprietor, keeper, owner, operator, lessee, or manager of such hotel, lodging house, or inn, has ceased, or shall forward or deliver the same to such hotel, lodging house, or inn, before, or without, becoming a guest, boarder, or lodger thereof, and the same shall be received into such hotel, lodging house, or inn, the liability of such proprietor, keeper, owner, operator, lessee, or manager thereof shall in no event exceed the sum of one hundred dollars, and such proprietor, keeper, owner, operator, lessee, or manager, may at his, her, their or its option, hold such baggage or property at the risk of such owner thereof; and when any baggage or property has been kept or stored by such hotel, lodging house, or inn, for six months after such relation of guest, boarder, or lodger has ceased, or when such relation does not exist, after six months from the receipt of such baggage or property in such hotel, lodging house, or inn, such proprietor, keeper, owner, operator, lessee, or manager, may, if he, she, they or it so desires, sell the same at public auction in the manner now or hereinafter provided by law for the sale of property to satisfy a hotel keeper's lien, and from the proceeds of such sale pay or reimburse himself or herself the expenses incurred for advertisement and sale, as well as any storage that may have accrued, and any other amounts owing by such person to said hotel, lodging house, or inn: PROVIDED, That when any such baggage or property is received, kept, or stored therein after such relation does not exist, such proprietor, keeper, owner, operator, lessee, or manager, may, if he, she, or it, so desires, deliver the same at any time to a storage or warehouse company for storage, and in such event all responsibility or liability of such hotel, lodging house, or inn, for such baggage or property, or for storage charges thereon, shall thereupon cease and terminate.
Guest Privacy
Every hotel and trailer camp shall keep a record of the arrival and departure of its guests in such a manner that the record will be a permanent one for at least one year from the date of departure.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes hotels and motels from landlord tenant laws is the individual(s) are there for less than 30 days.
There is currently no Covid-19 eviction moratorium in Washington.
Sick Leave PTO
If a collective bargaining agreement or employer policy entitles employees to sick leave or other paid time off, the employer must allow the employee to use the sick leave ro paid time off to care for a child or a spouse, parent, grandparent, or in-law with a serious health condition.
Requires a poster development by the Department of Labor and Industries describing an employer's obligations and an employee's rights.
Allows an employee to take paid or unpaid leave for issues related to domestic violence, including seeking legal assistance, health care, or assisting a family member in obtaining car or services related to domestic violence.
Requires employers to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave for every 40 hours worked. Allows sick leave to be used for an employee to seek treatment for a physical or mental illness for themselves or a family member, as well as when an employee's place of business ha been closed for a health-related reason or when an employee's childs school or place of care has been closed for a health reason.
Sick Leave PTO
Details how paid sick time can be used, including to allow an employee to care for their own or a family members physical or mental illness or to seek treatment or a diagnosis.
Requires the City to provide employers with a poster informing employees of their right to paid sick leave. Employers must display the poster in a conspicuous and accessible location where any of their employees work.
Requires employers to keep records for each employees stating the number of hours worked, paid sick time accrued, and paid sick time used for three years.
Requires all employers to provide paid sick leave to employees. Employers with less than 250 full time employees must provide one hour of paid sick leave for every 40 hours worked. Employers with 250 or more employees must provide one hour of sick leave for every 30 hours worked.
Guest Privacy
Everyone operating, managing, or keeping a hotel shall require registration of each guest at the time of his or her arrival on a register kept for that purpose and shall require identification of any adult guest whose room has been paid for in cash, including money order, traveler check, or personal checks, or by voucher at the time of registration. Such identification shall be in a valid and current form issued by a governmental entity. A photocopy of such identification shall be maintained by the hotel or the identifying information and form of identification shall be transposed into the hotel registration record. Such record shall be kept available for inspection by any peace officer at any reasonable time, or in a police emergency at any time of day or night. Provided, that before such inspection the peace officer must have individualized or particularized suspicion of illegal activity by the guest or in or nearby the room. No guest shall write or cause to be written in a hotel register any false information or name other than his or her true name. For any guest taking occupancy through a prearranged advanced reservation in his or her name, name of a corporation, business, association, or any other entity, the hotel shall require identification of the specific guest at the time of registration. Provided, that said hotel need not photocopy or record the identification of a person whose personal or business credit card (containing a name and expiration date) has been verified as valid in advance of the registration.
Landlord Tenant
While there are no direct rules on landlord/tenant law and whether or not it applies to hotels, Seattle defines a hotel as "a building that contains six or more guest rooms and is intended for occupancy by transients."
Housekeeping
Requires all bedding and carpets to be thoroughly aired, disinfected, and kept clean.
Requires rooms occupied by a person with a communicable disease to be thoroughly disinfected by methods prescribed by the West Virginia Board of Health before the room can be occupied by another person.
Requires hotels to provide guests with cean, individually towels
Innkeeper Laws
It shall be the duty of the keepers of hotels and restaurants to exercise due care and diligence in providing honest servants and employees, and to take every reasonable precaution to protect the persons and property of their guests and boarders, but no such keeper of any hotel or restaurant shall be held liable in a greater sum than two hundred and fifty dollars for the loss of any wearing apparel, baggage or other property, not hereinafter mentioned, belonging to a guest or boarder, when such loss takes place from the room or rooms occupied by said guest or boarder; and no keeper of a hotel or restaurant shall be held liable for any loss on the part of any guest or boarder of jewelry, money or other valuables of like nature, provided such keeper shall have posted in a conspicuous place in the room or rooms occupied by such guest or boarder, and in the hotel office and public reception room of such hotel or restaurant, a notice stating that jewelry, money and other valuables of like nature must be deposited in the office of such hotel (or restaurant), unless such loss shall take place from such office after such deposit.
Landlord Tenant
et. seq.
West Virginia does not explicitly include or exclude hotels from landlord tenant law. However, there are no mentions of hotels or transient occupancy in the West Virginia's landlord tenant laws.
Sick Leave PTO
Entitles employees to up to 12 weeks of unpaid family leave during any 12 month period due to the birth or adoption of a child or to care for a child, parent, or other dependent with a serious health condition.
Maximum Guest Rate
No owner or operator of any establishment that is held out as a motel, motor court, tourist cabin or like accommodation may post or maintain posted on any outdoor or outside advertising sign for the establishment rates for accommodations in the establishment unless the sign has posted on it both the minimum and maximum room or other rental unit rates for accommodations offered for rental. All posted rates and descriptive data required by this section shall be in type and material of the same size and prominence as the minimum and maximum room or other rental unit rates. Signs that only state the rate per person or bear the legend “and up” do not comply with the requirements of this subsection.
No owner or operator of any motel, motor court, tourist cabin or like accommodation may post or maintain posted on outdoor or outside advertising signs rates for accommodations in the establishment unless there is available, when vacant, accommodations in the establishment for immediate occupancy to meet the posted rates on the advertising signs.
No owner or operator of any motel, motor court, tourist cabin or like accommodation may post or maintain outdoor or outside advertising signs in connection with the establishment relating to rates which have any untrue, misleading, false, or fraudulent representations.
Every hotelkeeper shall keep posted in a conspicuous place in each sleeping room in his or her hotel, in type not smaller than 12-point, the rates per day for each occupant. Such rates shall not be changed until notice to that effect has been posted, in a similar manner, for 10 days previous to each change. Any hotelkeeper who fails to have the rates so posted or who charges, collects or receives for the use of any room a sum different from the authorized charge shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $100. A hotelkeeper may permit a room to be occupied at the rate of a lower priced room when all of the lower priced rooms are taken and until one of them becomes unoccupied. Special rates may be made for the use of sleeping rooms, either by the week, month or for longer periods or for use by families or other collective groups. The department or its representatives may enforce the posting of rates as provided in this subsection.
A hotelkeeper shall post, in each sleeping room in the hotel with a telephone, a notice of any fee imposed by the hotelkeeper for using the telephone.
The notice required shall be in type not smaller than 12-point and conspicuously posted on the telephone or within 3 feet of the telephone's normal location.
Innkeeper Laws
A hotelkeeper is not liable to a guest for loss of money, jewelry, precious metals or stones, personal ornaments or valuable papers which are not offered for safekeeping.
(2) To secure exemption from liability the hotelkeeper shall do all of the following:
(a) Have doors on sleeping rooms equipped with locks or bolts.
(b) Offer, by notice printed in large plain English type and kept conspicuously posted in each sleeping room, to receive valuable articles for safekeeping, and explain in the notice that the hotel is not liable for loss unless articles are tendered for safekeeping.
(c) Keep a safe or vault suitable for keeping the articles and receive them for safekeeping when tendered by a guest.
A hotelkeeper is liable for loss of articles accepted for safekeeping up to $300. The hotelkeeper need not receive for safekeeping property over $300 in value. This subsection may be varied by written agreement between the parties.
Every guest and intended guest of any hotel upon delivering to the hotelkeeper any baggage or other property for safekeeping, elsewhere than in the room assigned to the guest, shall demand and the hotelkeeper shall give a check or receipt, to evidence the delivery. No hotelkeeper shall be liable for the loss of or injury to the baggage or other property of a hotel guest, unless it was delivered to the hotelkeeper for safekeeping or unless the loss or injury occurred through the negligence of the hotelkeeper.
A hotelkeeper is not liable for the loss of baggage or other property of a hotel guest by a fire unintentionally produced by the hotelkeeper. Every hotelkeeper is liable for loss of baggage or other property of a guest caused by theft or gross negligence of the hotelkeeper. The liability may not exceed $200 for each trunk and its contents, $75 for each valise and its contents and $10 for each box, bundle or package and contents, so placed under the care of the hotelkeeper; and $50 for all other effects including wearing apparel and personal belongings, unless the hotelkeeper has agreed in writing with the guest to assume a greater liability. When any person permits his or her baggage or property to remain in any hotel after the person's status as a guest has ceased, or forwards the baggage or property to a hotel before becoming a guest and the baggage or property is received into the hotel, the hotelkeeper holds the baggage or property at the risk of the owner.
Guest Privacy
Each hotel, motel, and tourist rooming house shall provide a register and require all guests to register their true names and addresses before being assigned sleeping quarters. The register shall be kept intact and available for inspection by representatives of the department for at least one year.
Landlord Tenant
Wisconsin law does not explicitly include or exclude hotels from landlord tenant law.
Landlord Tenant
Wyoming law does not explicitly include or exclude hotels from landlord tenant law.
Maximum Guest Rate
There shall be posted in plain view of any guest or guests occupying such room or rooms on the inside of the door of each lodging room in every hotel or inn a card of a size not less than four (4) by six (6) inches on which shall be plainly printed in the English language in type no smaller than one-quarter of an inch high the rate per day as applying to one (1) or more guests.
Innkeeper Laws
Every landlord or keeper of a public inn or hotel in this state, who shall keep in his place of business an iron safe, in good order and suitable for the purpose hereinafter named, and who shall post or cause to be posted in some conspicuous place in his office, and on the inside of every entrance door to every bed chamber, the notice hereinafter mentioned, shall not be liable for the loss of any money, jewelry or other valuables belonging to his guests or customers, unless such loss shall occur by the hand or through the negligence of such landlord, or by a clerk or servant employed by him in such hotel or inn; provided, that nothing herein contained shall apply to such amount of money or other valuables as is usually common and prudent for any such guest to retain in his room or about his person.
The notice required by this act shall be substantially as follows: “Notice is hereby given that the proprietor of this house keeps an iron safe suitable for the safe deposit of money, jewelry or other valuable articles belonging to his guests or customers, and unless they leave their money, jewelry, precious stones or other valuables with the landlord, his agent or clerk, in order that he may deposit the same for safe keeping in such iron safe, he will not be liable for the loss thereof.”
Any keeper of a hotel or boarding house or lodging house or restaurant shall have a lien upon the baggage or other personal property of any person who shall have obtained board or lodging or both, from such keeper, for the amount due for such board or lodging, and such keeper is hereby authorized to retain the possession of such baggage, or personal property until said amount is paid. If the amount due for such board or lodging is not paid within sixty (60) days from the time the same shall have become due and payable, any such keeper may proceed to have such baggage or other personal property sold for the satisfaction of his lien in the following manner: He shall give ten (10) days prior notice of the sale of said articles by him held under his lien, a copy of which he shall immediately transmit, by registered letter, to the owner of the articles at his usual place of abode if known, and he shall post said notices of sale in three (3) conspicuous and public places in the city, town, village or place where said keeper resides, giving a description of the articles to be sold and the time and place of sale, one (1) of which notices shall be posted in the office of the hotel, lodging house, boarding house or restaurant, if still maintained. At the time mentioned in said notices, the said keeper may proceed to sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, all of such personal property held under the lien, or so much thereof as shall be necessary to pay his claim, and the residue of the unsold property, together with the surplus proceeds of such property sold, if any, he shall surrender to the owner, his heirs or legal representatives, on application therefor.
There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.
Credit Surcharge
No charge or sum shall be collected or received by any manager or person in control of a hotel, motel, inn, boarding, lodging or transient apartment house for any greater sum than entitled to under the statement of charges or rates posted.
Guest Privacy
Every manager or person in control of any hotel, motel, inn, boarding, lodging, transient apartment house, or auto court or trailer park in the City of San Diego shall keep a register for the registration of transient guests. Such register shall be preserved for at least three years and shall be subject to inspection by any law enforcement officer of the City of San Diego with consent of the manager or person in control, pursuant to a warrant, or when there are exigent circumstances.
No manager or person in control of any hotel, motel, inn, boarding, lodging, transient apartment house or auto court or a trailer park in the City of San Diego shall let or assign for temporary or transient occupancy any suite, room or bed thereof to any person or persons until they shall have registered their name and address in the register. The register shall show correctly the year, month, day and hour of the arrival of such persons, the number of the suite or room assigned, the time of departure or, if the exact time of departure is not known, the date and time that the fact of the departure of each guest is ascertained. No person shall erase or alter, or suffer or permit to be erased or altered any of said entries in such register.
Every manager or person in control of any motel, auto park or trailer park shall enter in the register the make, type, license number and issuing state and name of registered owner of any motor vehicle or trailer in the immediate possession of any guest.
Maximum Guest Rate
Every manager or person in control of a hotel, motel, inn, boarding, lodging or transient apartment house in the City of San Diego shall post in a conspicuous place in each room or apartment which is for rent or hire a printed statement of the specific charge or rate of charges by the day, week or month to be charged for said room or rooms.
No charge or sum shall be collected or received by any manager or person in control of a hotel, motel, inn, boarding, lodging or transient apartment house for any greater sum than entitled to under the statement of charges or rates posted.
Innkeeper Laws
Every manager or person in control of a hotel, motel, inn, boarding, lodging or transient apartment house is hereby required to post in a conspicuous place in each room of such hotel, motel, inn, boarding, lodging or transient apartment house a printed statement of the general rules and regulations of said hotel, motel, inn, boarding, lodging or transient apartment house.
Guest Privacy
Every person conducting any hotel, lodging house, rooming house or other place where transients are accommodated whatsoever in the city shall, at all times, keep and maintain therein a standard hotel register, in which shall be inscribed in ink or indelible pencil the name and home street and town address of each and every guest or person renting or occupying a room therein. Such register shall be signed by each occupant of a room, or by the person renting same, for themselves or on behalf of such persons for whom the person is renting the same, and the proprietor or person in charge of such hotel, lodging house, rooming house or other place where transients are accommodated, or an agent, shall thereupon write opposite such name so registered, the number of each room assigned to and occupied by each guest, together with the time when such room was rented; and until all of the aforesaid entries shall have been made in such register, no such guest shall be suffered or permitted to occupy privately any room in such house.
When the occupant of each room so rented shall quit and surrender the same it shall be the further duty of the proprietor or person in charge of such hotel or house, or an agent, to enter the time thereof in such register opposite the name of such occupant.
Such register shall be kept at all times open to the inspection of any guest of such hotel, lodging house, rooming house or other place where transients are accommodated, wherein such register is kept and of any police officer or other public officer of the city.
Guest Privacy
Each person licensed to conduct a hotel or motel shall at all times keep a register, which shall contain the name of each person occupying a rooming unit in the hotel or motel; and the date of arrival and date of departure of each occupant. Each room shall be numbered and the number of the room assigned to each occupant shall be indicated in the register. The register shall be available for inspection by officials of the District of Columbia.
The entrance door to each rooming unit shall be provided with a lock. A key to the unit shall be furnished to the respective occupant. A duplicate key or keys shall be retained by the licensee or manager who shall have access to all rooms at all reasonable hours.
Landlord Tenant
Washington D.C. does not explicitly exclude hotels in landlord tenant law.
Innkeeper Laws
If a hotel, motel, or similar establishment in the District of Columbia which provides lodging to transient guests: (1) provides a suitable depository (other than a checkroom) for the safekeeping of personal property (other than a motor vehicle); and (2) displays conspicuously in the guest and public rooms of that establishment a printed copy of this section (or summary thereof); that establishment shall not be liable for the loss or destruction of, or damage to, any personal property of a guest or patron not deposited for safekeeping, except that this sentence shall not apply with respect to the liability of that establishment for loss or destruction of, or damage to, any personal property retained by a guest in his room if the property is such property as is usual, common, or prudent for a guest to retain in his room. In the case of any personal property of a guest or patron deposited in such a depository for safekeeping, that establishment shall be liable for the loss or destruction of, or damage to, that property to the extent of the lesser of $1,000 or the fair market value of the property at the time of its loss, destruction, or damage.
If a hotel, motel, or similar establishment in the District of Columbia which provides lodging to transient guests maintains a checkroom (conspicuously designated as such) where guests and patrons may deposit personal property, that establishment shall, if it conspicuously posts a printed copy of this section (or summary thereof), be liable for the loss or destruction of, or damage to, that property only to the extent of the lesser of $200 or the fair market value of the property at the time of its loss, destruction, or damage unless the destruction or damage is caused by its agent or servant.
A hotel, motel, or similar establishment in the District of Columbia which provides lodging to transient guests has a lien upon and may retain possession of, any personal property belonging to, or under the control of, a guest or patron of that establishment, for the amount due that establishment from that guest or patron for lodging, food, or other item of value, except that the amount of the lien authorized may not exceed $1,000.
A lodging establishment providing guest rooms that contain a kitchen, defined as a cooking facility that includes a permanently affixed cooktop appliance consisting of two or more burners, with or without an oven, with a power supply served by either an electrical connection or a natural gas line, shall not be required to clean those guest rooms on a daily basis, unless specifically requested by a guest.
It shall be the duty of the operator to thoroughly clean any room which has been allocated to the use of any one person before allocating the use of that room to another person. All bedding shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition. Each transient shall be provided with clean bed linen for each day's use. Each transient shall be provided, for his or her individual use with at least the following each day: with at least one clean bath towel and one clean hand towel; and sufficient soap for ordinary use. All other guests shall be provided at least the following each week: one clean pillow slip; two clean sheets; two clean bath towels; and two clean hand towels. Each new occupant shall be provided with a complete change of linens and towels.
The operator of each hotel or motel shall post in a conspicuous place within each rooming unit used for the accommodation of transients a card stating the maximum number of occupants permitted in that room under these regulations. The operator of each hotel or motel shall post in a conspicuous place within each rooming unit used for the accommodation of transients a card stating the maximum rates charged for that rooming unit under varying conditions of occupancy.
Guest Privacy
Hotels/motels shall keep the information provided in the ID of the party registering for the room(s) referenced above along with the following information in a log to be kept on the premises: number of person(s) occupying the room(s); automobile tag number, if applicable; dates when room will be occupied; rate charged; and any other information as required by F.S. § 509.101. The log shall be kept for inspection by the hotel/motel for two calendar years as required by state statute and for inspection by the Miami Police Department.
Hotels/motels shall install and maintain a closed-circuit TV or cloud-based video surveillance system ("CCTV") which films the front entrance or any other entry or exit, the check-in desk area, any open-air breezeways, and any parking area of the hotel/motel. The CCTV shall have at least a 30-day memory and a camera that is a minimum of 1080 HD with a frame rate of 15 frames per second.
Every hotel/motel shall provide warning notices prominently displayed at all entrances and exits that CCTV cameras are operational and recording the check-in area, entrances, exits, parking areas, and open-air breezeways. No CCTV camera shall be specifically set to record a hotel/motel room door but rather general entry, exit, check-in desk area, parking area, and open-air breezeway views. CCTV cameras set in any area where there may be hotel/motel room entry door shall not be in violation of this article so long as the camera focus is the general area as described herein.
Credit Surcharge
A merchant may collect a nonrefundable convenience fee from any person electing to utilize an option of payment by electronic means, in an amount that represents the actual cost to a lender or merchant; provided, however, that in lieu of the actual cost, a lender or merchant is authorized to collect a convenience fee which does not exceed the average of the actual cost incurred for a specific type of payment made by electronic means for which such lender or merchant imposes a convenience fee. No convenience fee shall be charged unless a lender or merchant also provides a direct payment option by check, cash, or money order in which no convenience fee is imposed. Merchants shall provide clear disclosure of such fee prior to imposition. Such notice shall include the dollar amount of such fee, a statement that such fee is nonrefundable, and a statement that such fee is charged for payment by electronic means.
Guest Privacy
Any person or persons occupying any room or rooms in a roadhouse, public dance hall, or any other similar establishment by whatever name called shall register or cause himself to be registered before occupying the same and, if traveling by motor vehicle, shall register at the same time the license plate of such motor vehicle and the manufacturer's name of such motor vehicle; and no person shall write or cause to be written or, if in charge of a register, knowingly permit to be written in any register, a name or designation other than the true name or names in ordinary use of the person registering or causing himself to be registered therein, or the true name of the manufacturer of such motor vehicle or the correct license plate and number thereof.
Landlord Tenant
A landlord/tenant relationship is created when the owner of real estate grants to another person the right to possess and enjoy the use of their real estate for a fixed time.
In any case where a tenant holds possession of lands or tenement beyond the term of a lease or rental agreement or fails to pay rent when it becomes due, the owner may demand possession of the property
Innkeeper Laws
An innkeeper who advertises himself as such is bound to receive as guests, so far as he can accommodate them, all persons of good character who desire accommodation and who are willing to comply with his rules.
Whenever the keeper of a hotel, apartment hotel, boarding house, inn, or other accommodations furnished on a day-to-day or weekly basis wishes to terminate the occupancy of a guest, the keeper shall give notice of such intention to the guest. The period of time to be specified in the notice as to when the occupancy will be declared terminated by the keeper shall be equal to the period of time for which occupancy is paid for by the guest and accepted by the keeper.
The notice requirement shall not apply to a termination of occupancy for cause, such as failure to pay sums due, failure to abide by rules of occupancy, failure to have or maintain reservations, or other action by a guest.
A written statement prominently setting forth in bold type the time period during which a guest may occupy an assigned room, when separately signed or initialed by the guest, is a valid nonassignable contract. At the expiration of such time period, the guest may be restrained from entering such room and any property of the guest may be removed by the innkeeper to a secure place where the guest may recover his or her property without liability to the innkeeper, except for damages to or loss of such property attributable to its removal. If a guest vacates his or her room prior to the date contained in the written statement, that guest shall not be liable for charges for the time after the room is vacated unless the guest has agreed otherwise before occupying the room.
A keeper of an inn or other house of public entertainment for travelers shall give receipts or checks for all baggage delivered to such inn or house of entertainment when requested to do so by the guest owning the baggage. Such keeper shall not make any additional charge for receipting for, checking, or keeping such baggage while the owner remains a guest of the house
It shall not be necessary to show actual delivery of property to the innkeeper before such property shall be deemed to have been entrusted to the innkeeper. Depositing goods in a public room set apart for such articles or leaving them in the room of the guest shall be a delivery to the innkeeper. However, if the guest shall deliver his goods to a servant under special charge to him to keep the same, the innkeeper shall not be liable therefor.
The innkeeper may provide a safe or other place of deposit for valuable articles and, by posting a notice thereof, may require guests of the innkeeper to place such valuable articles therein or the innkeeper shall be relieved from responsibility for such articles. For all valuable articles placed by a guest with an innkeeper for safekeeping, the innkeeper shall give a receipt therefor to evidence the fact of such deposit. No guest shall recover from the innkeeper more than $750.00 for loss of valuable articles deposited with the innkeeper for safekeeping unless such guest shall possess a receipt of the innkeeper for the valuable articles claimed to have been lost.
Guest Privacy
Every owner, keeper, or proprietor of any hotel shall keep a register in accordance with HRS Chapter 486K.
Innkeeper Laws
No innkeeper, whether individual, partnership or corporation, who constantly has in his inn an iron safe or suitable vault in good order and fit for the safe custody of money, bank notes, jewelry, articles of gold and silver manufacture, precious stones, personal ornaments, railroad mileage books or tickets, negotiable or valuable papers, bullion, and who keeps on the doors of the sleeping rooms used by his guests, locks or bolts, and on the transoms and windows of said rooms suitable fastenings, shall be liable for the loss or injury to any such property suffered by any guest, unless such guest has offered to deliver the same to such innkeeper for custody in such iron safe or vault and such innkeeper has refused or omitted to take it and deposit it in such safe or vault for custody and to give such guest a receipt therefor.
Provided, however, that the innkeeper of any inn shall not be obliged to receive from any one guest for deposit in such safe or vault any property hereinbefore described exceeding a total value of five hundred dollars ($500.00), and shall not be liable for any excess of such property, whether received or not; but such innkeeper may, by special agreement with a guest, receive for deposit in such safe or vault any property on such terms as they may agree to in writing. Every innkeeper shall be liable for any loss of the above enumerated articles by a guest in his inn caused by the theft or negligence of the innkeeper or any of his servants.
The liability of the innkeeper of any inn, whether individual, partnership or corporation, for the loss of or injury to personal property placed by his guests under his care other than that described in Section 75-73-5 shall be that of a depository for hire. Provided, however, that in no case shall such liability exceed the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each trunk and contents; twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each valise and contents, and five dollars ($5.00) for each box, bundle or package and contents so placed under his care, unless he shall have consented in writing with such guest to assume a greater liability; except that nothing herein shall prevent any guest of any hotel or inn from recovering at common law the actual value of the contents of any trunk, valise, box or package which, after being given into the care or custody of the hotel or innkeeper or placed in the rooms of a hotel or inn, shall be lost by or through theft, or the negligence, carelessness or omission of any hotel or innkeeper or his servant or employee, and not by or through the carelessness, negligence or omission of such guest.
If any person be guilty of disorderly conduct or other conduct prohibited by law, or intoxication or any breach of the peace, or of the use of obscene or profane language on the premises of any hotel, or if any person register at said hotel under an assumed name, then the manager of said hotel or anyone who is at the time acting as said manager or for said manager may eject said person or persons from said hotel premises using only such force as may be necessary to accomplish the same, and may command the assistance of the employees of said hotel to assist in said ejection and may cause any person violating the law to be detained and delivered to the proper authorities.
If a person who has been given written notice of his agreed departure and checkout time at the time he registered in the hotel or motel, who has signed such notice acknowledging his checkout time, and who has been given written notice at least three hours prior to the time required to leave the hotel or motel room remains in a hotel or motel room after his term or stay has expired, the manager of the hotel or motel or anyone who is at the time acting as said manager or for said manager may eject said person and other occupants and their personal belongings from said hotel or motel premises using the assistance of the appropriate lawful authority to accomplish the same. If the registered occupant is not present, the manager of the hotel or motel, or the person acting as or for said manager, shall make and sign a written, itemized inventory of the personal belongings in the room before same shall be removed, which inventory shall also be signed, as witness thereto, by the lawful authority assisting such hotel or motel manager. Such hotel or motel manager shall use reasonable care to preserve and protect such personal belongings for a period not longer than ten days. No action for damages, or otherwise, shall be maintainable against the owners, operators or managers of a hotel or motel, or appropriate lawful authority for reasonable exercise of rights. This subsection shall not apply in case of serious medical emergency requiring the room's continued use.
A copy of Sections 75-73-3 and 75-73-5 shall be posted and kept posted in a conspicuous place in the general office or lobby, provided for the use of guests and patrons of every public inn and hotel.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes hotels from residential landlord tenant laws in Mississippi.
Allows hotel managers to remove guests who are disorderly, intoxicated from a hotel. Also allows hotel manages to remove guests and their belongings if they overstay their agreed upon time in a room.
Maximum Guest Rate
No person engaged in the business of furnishing public lodging accommodations in a hotel shall post or maintain posted on any advertising sign or cause to be placed before the public in any advertising matter or information pertaining to such establishment, any rates for accommodations in any such establishment unless there are available in any such establishment, when vacant, accommodations for immediate occupancy to meet the posted rate of such advertising signs.
Every person engaged in the business of furnishing public lodging accommodations in a hotel shall post in a conspicuous place or manner in each and every guest room, a printed copy of this act and a statement of the range of rates charged by the hotel, including seasonal rates.
Every hotel and multiple dwelling containing rooming units shall not have posted on any advertising sign, or placed before the public in any advertising matter or information pertaining to such hotel or multiple dwelling, any rates for accommodation in such hotel or multiple dwelling unless there are available therein, when vacant, accommodations for immediate occupancy at the advertised rate and have posted in a conspicuous place or manner in each rooming unit a statement of the range of rates charged by the hotel or multiple dwelling, including seasonal rates, and a legible printed copy of P.L. 1967, c.95 (N.J.S.A. 29:4–5 et seq.).
Innkeeper Laws
If the proprietor of any hotel shall provide a safe or other depository in the hotel's office or in another convenient place, for the safekeeping of any valuables belonging to guests of the hotel, and shall place, in a conspicuous position in the room or rooms occupied by each guest, a notice stating the fact that a safe or other depository is provided in which valuables may be deposited, and any guest shall neglect to deliver valuables to the person in charge of the safe or other depository, the proprietor of the hotel shall not be liable in any sum for the loss of valuables sustained by that guest, by theft or otherwise. If a guest shall deliver valuables to the person in charge of the office of the hotel for deposit in the safe or other depository, the hotel proprietor shall not be liable for any loss sustained by that guest, by theft or otherwise, in any sum exceeding $5,000, unless by special agreement in writing between a guest and the proprietor in which the proprietor agrees to accept liability for losses in excess of $5,000. In all cases of loss, the burden shall be on the guest to prove the amount of loss.
No proprietor of any hotel shall be liable in any sum to any guest of the hotel for the loss of personal property not mentioned in R.S.29:2-2, where it shall appear that the loss occurred without the fault or negligence of the proprietor.
No proprietor shall be liable in any sum for the loss of any personal property belonging to a guest not in a room or rooms assigned to the guest, unless the property shall be specially intrusted to the care and custody of the proprietor or his duly authorized agent, and if the property shall be so specially intrusted, the proprietor shall not be liable for its loss in any sum exceeding $1,500; and the burden shall be on the guest to prove the actual amount of loss.
Within 24 hours of the occurrence of a service disruption, a hotel operator shall provide, in all modifiable mediums in which the hotel advertises, solicits customers, or through which customers can book or reserve rooms or services, notification of the service disruption to each third-party vendor and each guest who is seeking, or has entered into, a reservation, booking, or agreement with the hotel operator or a third-party vendor for the use or occupancy of a room. The notification shall also be provided immediately before accepting or entering into any new reservation, booking, or agreement for the use or occupancy of a room or hotel service. The notification shall also be provided to any current guest. If the circumstances of the service disruption make timely notification impracticable, the notification shall be made as soon as practicable.
The notification shall describe: the nature of the service disruption; the extent of the service disruption's effect on reservations, bookings, or agreements to use or occupy the room or hotel services; and the right of a guest to cancel or terminate the reservation, booking, or agreement for the use or occupancy of the room or hotel services, with a refund if applicable and without the imposition of any fee, penalty, or other charge, as provided in subsections c. and d. of this section. If the notification is included in a communication containing other information, the notification shall be in a significantly larger font and different color than the remainder of the communication.
A hotel operator shall not impose any fee, penalty, or other charge, nor retain any deposit, in the event a guest, prior to checking in, cancels a reservation, booking, or agreement with the hotel operator for the use or occupancy of a room, if the guest's stay or room is, or could be, substantially affected by a service disruption during the guest's stay or use of a hotel service.
If a service disruption arises only after any guest of the room has checked in, the hotel operator shall prominently and clearly notify the guest of the service disruption within 24 hours of the disruption, as provided in subsection a. of this section. The notification shall specify the rights set forth in this subsection, pursuant to subsection b. of this section. The guests of the room or hotel service may terminate any reservation, booking, or agreement for the rental of the room or use of a hotel service, and the hotel operator shall not impose any fee, penalty, or other charge for the termination, nor retain any deposit related to any unused portion of the period of the reservation, booking, or agreement following the onset of the service disruption.
Credit Surcharge
A seller shall not impose on a customer who uses a credit card for a transaction occurring in New Jersey a surcharge that is greater than the actual cost to the seller to process the credit card payment.
A seller that imposes a surcharge on a customer to process a credit card payment shall disclose the amount of the surcharge to a customer, prior to the customer incurring any charge for goods or services, by, in the case of a seller other than a restaurant, posting clear and conspicuous notice on a sign at the point of entry and point of sale or, in the case of a restaurant, on a sign in the customer service area and on the menu, except:
(1) if the seller is processing a credit card payment for a transaction that will occur through an Internet website, a mobile application, or an electronic kiosk, the seller shall provide clear and conspicuous electronic notice on the checkout page of the Internet website, mobile application, or electronic kiosk prior to processing the transaction; or
(2) if the seller is processing a credit card payment for a transaction that will occur over the telephone, the seller shall provide verbal notice prior to processing the transaction.
Guest Privacy
Any person, copartnership, firm, association or corporation engaged in the business of conducting a tourist camp, tourist cabin, trailer camp, tourist home, rooming house, inn or hotel where sleeping accommodations are furnished for pay to tourists, transients or travelers whether meals are served therein or not to such tourists, transients or travelers, and any person, copartnership, firm, association or corporation who may hereafter engage in such business as enumerated above, shall keep and maintain or cause to be kept and maintained therein, a register in which shall be inscribed the true name and address of each and every guest renting or occupying camp space, room, cabin or tent. Such register shall be signed by the person renting such camp space, room, cabin or tent or by someone under his or her direction. The proprietor or his agent shall write opposite each name the number of room, number or name of cabin or tent or camp space assigned to and occupied by each such guest, and the State license number of any motor vehicle then being used or operated by the registrant. The proprietor or his agent shall keep and preserve the record showing the date of registration and date when the occupant of each room, camp space, cabin or tent quits and surrendered the same. Said register shall be available to all duly authorized peace officers upon request.
It shall be the duty of the sheriff or his deputies, any member of an organized police department and any member of the State Police, in whose jurisdiction any of the above-mentioned places may be located, to inspect such place from time to time at any hour of the day or night, to see that the provisions of this act are being complied with.
Nothing in this act shall be construed in any way to apply to any duly licensed hotel having more than ten sleeping rooms for guests.
Innkeeper Laws
Whenever the proprietor or manager of any hotel, motel, inn or steamboat shall provide a safe or safe deposit boxes in the office of such hotel, motel or steamboat, or other convenient place for the safe keeping of any money, jewels, ornaments, bank notes, bonds, negotiable securities or precious stones, belonging to the guests of or travelers in such hotel, motel, inn or steamboat, and shall notify the guests or travelers thereof by posting a notice stating the fact that such safe or safe deposit boxes are provided, in which such property may be deposited, in a public and conspicuous place and manner in the office and public rooms, and in the public parlors of such hotel, motel, or inn, or saloon of such steamboat; and if such guest or traveler shall neglect to deliver such property, to the person in charge of such office for deposit in such safe or safe deposit boxes, the proprietor or manager of such hotel, motel, or steamboat shall not be liable for any loss of such property, sustained by such guest or traveler by theft or otherwise; but no hotel, motel or steamboat proprietor, manager or lessee shall be obliged to receive property on deposit for safe keeping, exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars in value; and if such guest or traveler shall deliver such property, to the person in charge of such office for deposit in such safe or safe deposit boxes, said proprietor, manager or lessee shall not be liable for any loss thereof, sustained by such guest or traveler by theft or otherwise, in any sum exceeding the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars unless by special agreement in writing with such proprietor, manager or lessee.
No hotel or motel keeper except as provided in the foregoing section shall be liable for damage to or loss of wearing apparel or other personal property in the lobby, hallways or in the room or rooms assigned to a guest for any sum exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars, unless it shall appear that such loss occurred through the fault or negligence of such keeper, nor shall he be liable in any sum exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars for the loss of or damage to any such property when delivered to such keeper for storage or safe keeping in the store room, baggage room or other place elsewhere than in the room or rooms assigned to such guest, unless at the time of delivering the same for storage or safe keeping such value in excess of one hundred dollars shall be stated and a written receipt, stating such value, shall be issued by such keeper, but in no event shall such keeper be liable beyond five hundred dollars, unless it shall appear that such loss occurred through his fault or negligence, and such keeper may make a reasonable charge for storing or keeping such property, nor shall he be liable for the loss of or damage to any merchandise samples or merchandise for sale, unless the guest shall have given such keeper prior written notice of having the same in his possession, together with the value thereof, the receipt of which notice the hotel or motel keeper shall acknowledge in writing over the signature of himself or his agent, but in no event shall such keeper be liable beyond five hundred dollars, unless it shall appear that such loss or damage occurred through his fault or negligence; as to property deposited by guests or patrons in the parcel or checkroom of any hotel, motel or restaurant, the delivery of which is evidenced by a check or receipt therefor and for which no fee or charge is exacted, the proprietor shall not be liable beyond two hundred dollars, unless such value in excess of two hundred dollars shall be stated upon delivery and a written receipt, stating such value, shall be issued, but he shall in no event be liable beyond three hundred dollars, unless such loss occurs through his fault or negligence. Notwithstanding anything hereinabove contained, no hotel or motel keeper shall be liable for damage to or loss of such property by fire, when it shall appear that such fire was occasioned without his fault or negligence.
A printed copy of this section shall be posted in a conspicuous place and manner in the office or public room and in the public parlors of such hotel or motel. No hotel, motel or restaurant proprietor shall post a notice disclaiming or misrepresenting his liability under this section.
Every keeper of a hotel or motel or inn shall post in a public and conspicuous place and manner in the registration office and in the public rooms of such hotel or motel or inn a printed copy of this section and section two hundred three-a.
Credit Surcharge
Any seller in any sales transaction imposing a surcharge on a customer who elects to use a credit card in lieu of payment by cash, check, or similar means shall clearly and conspicuously post the total price for using a credit card in such transaction, inclusive of surcharge, provided however, any such surcharge may not exceed the amount of the surcharge charged to the business by the credit card company for such credit card use. The final sales price of any such sales transaction, inclusive of such surcharge, shall not amount to a price greater than the posted price for such sales transaction
Guest Privacy
The owner, lessee, proprietor or manager of any hotel, motel, tourist cabins, camp, resort, tavern, inn, boarding or lodging house shall keep for a period of three years a register which shall show the name, residence, date of arrival and departure of his guests. Such records may be kept within the meaning of this section when reproduced on any photographic, photostatic, microfilm, micro-card, miniature photographic or other process which actually reproduced the original record.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes transient occupancy in a hotel for less than 30 days from landlord tenant law
Allows hotel guests to be removed for nonpayment provided three days notice has been given. If rent is paid before the three days notice, the guest may not be removed.
Maximum Guest Rate
Every keeper of a hotel or inn shall post in a public and conspicuous place and manner in the office or public room, and in the public parlors of such hotel or inn, a printed copy of this section and sections two hundred and two hundred and one, and a statement of the charges or rate of charges by the day and for meals furnished and for lodging.
No charge or sum shall be collected or received by any such hotel keeper or inn keeper for any service not actually rendered or for a longer time than the person so charged actually remained at such hotel or inn, nor for a higher rate of charge for the use of such room or board, lodging or meals than is specified in the rate of charges required to be posted by the last preceding sentence; provided such guest shall have given such hotel keeper or inn keeper notice at the office of his departure. For any violation of this section the offender shall forfeit to the injured party three times the amount so charged, and shall not be entitled to receive any money for meals, services or time charged.
No person engaged in the business of furnishing public lodging accommodations in motels and motor courts shall post or maintain posted on any outdoor or outside advertising sign pertaining to such establishment, that may be seen from a public highway or street, any rates for accommadations1 in such establishment unless the sign shall have posted thereon both the minimum and maximum room, or other rental unit rates, for accommodations offered for rental. All posted rates and descriptive data on such sign shall be in type and material of the same size and prominence; post or maintain posted on such outdoor or outside advertising signs rates for accommodations in any such establishment unless there are available in any such establishment, when vacant, accommodations for immediate occupancy to meet the posted rates of such advertising signs; post or maintain outdoor or outside advertising signs in connection with any such establishment relating to rates which shall have thereon any untrue, false, fraudulent or misleading representations or statements as to any matter whatsoever.
Advertising signs stating the rate per person and bearing the legend “and up” shall not be deemed to comply with the provisions of this section.
Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of furnishing public lodging accommodations in motels and motor courts shall post in a conspicuous place or manner in each and every rental unit, a printed copy of this section and section two hundred six-a and a statement of the rental unit charge or rate charged by the day for the rental unit. No charge or sum shall be collected or received by any motel or motor court keeper for any service not actually rendered or for a longer time than the person so charged actually remained at such motel or motor court, nor for a higher rate of charge for the use of said rental unit than is specified in the list of charges required to be posted by the last preceding sentence of this paragraph, nor for a higher rate of charge for the use of said rental unit than the maximum rate posted or maintained on any outdoor or outside advertising sign pertaining to such establishment, provided such guest shall have given such motel or motor court keeper notice at the office of his departure. For any violation of this section, the offender shall forfeit to the injured party, three times the amount so charged, and shall not be entitled to receive any money for services or time charged.
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Sick Leave PTO
Requires employers with more than 50 employees to allow employees to take up to 30 days of unpaid victim leave per calendar year, or five days for employes with 49 or fewer employees. Leave can be used to recover/seek treatment from domestic or sexual violence.
Details leave requirements for employees who take a leave of absence to donate bone marrow, stem cells, or organs.
Entitles employees up to four weeks of family leave, which can be paid or unpaid. Details provisions for sick leave, which employers have the option to provide.
Details requirements for family leave
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Sick Leave PTO
Requires employers with at least 10 employees working in Oregon to provide at least one hour of sick leave for every 30 hours worked or 1 1/3 hours of sick leave for every 40 hours worked. Employers with fewer than 10 employees must allow one hour of unpaid sick leave for every 30 hours work of 1 1/3 hours of unpaid sick leave for every 40 hours worked.
Details permissible uses of sick leave, including seeking treatment for a physical or mental illness or caring or a family member. Also allows sick time to be donated to another employee.
Requires employers to provide written notification, at least on a quarterly basis, to each employee the amount of accrued and unused sick leave they have available.
Notes that family leave is not required to be provided with pay, but that an employee taking family leave may use any paid sick leave or vacation leave during the period of family leave.
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Housekeeping
Establishes rules for cleaning utensils and linens.
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