Hospitality Law Database
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Innkeeper Laws
Any person who is under the influence of alcohol or narcotics, who is guilty of boisterous conduct, who is of lewd or immoral character, who is physically violent or who violates any regulation of any place of public accommodation that applies to all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin or ancestry may be excluded from any place of public accommodation.
Housekeeping
Request every manager or person in charge of the conduct at any hotel to keep toilet rooms used in connection with the inn or hotel and provided for the use of guests or patrons in a clean and sanitary condition
Innkeeper Laws
A hotel shall post information about the National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline.
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 the hotel, or to his or her servants, any baggage or other articles of property of the guest for safekeeping elsewhere than to the room assigned to the guest to demand, and of the hotel proprietor to give, a check or receipt therefor, to evidence the fact of the delivery.
No hotel proprietor shall be liable for the loss of or injury to baggage or other articles of property of his or her guest, unless the baggage or other articles of property shall have been actually delivered by the guest to the hotel proprietor or to his or her servants for safekeeping, or unless the loss or injury occurred through the negligence of the hotel proprietor, or by his or her servants or employees in the hotel.
No innkeeper or hotelkeeper, whether individual, partnership, or corporation, who constantly has in his or her 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, 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 the rooms suitable fastenings, and who keeps a copy of this section printed in distinct type constantly and conspicuously posted in not less than ten conspicuous places in the hotel or inn, shall be liable for the loss or injury suffered by any guest unless the guest has offered to deliver the baggage or other articles of property to the innkeeper or hotelkeeper for custody in the metal safe or vault, and the innkeeper or hotelkeeper has omitted or refused to take it and deposit it in the safe or vault for custody, and to give the guest a receipt therefor.
The keeper of any inn or hotel shall not be obliged to receive from any one guest for deposit in a safe or vault any property hereinbefore described exceeding a total value of $300 and shall not be liable for any excess of the property, whether received or not. However, an innkeeper or hotelkeeper may, by special arrangement with a guest, receive for deposit in a safe or vault any property upon such terms as they may agree to in writing. Every innkeeper or hotelkeeper shall be liable for loss of these enumerated articles of a guest in his or her inn or hotel after the articles have been accepted for deposit if the loss was caused by the theft or negligence of the innkeeper, hotelkeeper, or any of their servants.
Landlord Tenant
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.
Innkeeper Laws
An innkeeper has the right to refuse or deny accommodations, facilities, and the privileges of a lodging establishment to any person who is not willing or able to pay for the accommodations, facilities, and services. The innkeeper shall have the right to require a prospective guest to demonstrate his or her ability to pay by cash, valid credit card, or a validated check, and if the prospective guest is a minor, the innkeeper may require a parent or legal guardian of the minor or other responsible adult to provide a valid credit card number or agree, in writing, to pay for the cost of the guest room, including applicable taxes; all charges made by the minor; and any damages caused by the minor or the minor's guests to the guest room or its furnishings; or to provide an advance cash payment to cover the cost of the guest room for all nights reserved, including applicable taxes, plus a cash deposit to be held toward the payment of any charges made by the minor and any damages to the guest room or its furnishings. The cash deposit shall be refunded, unless applied to charges or damages, following a joint inspection of the room. It is the obligation of the guest to join the innkeeper during the inspection. Should the guest fail to join the innkeeper, the guest thereby waives his or her right to the joint inspection. The refund, if any, shall immediately be made to the extent it is not used to cover the described charges or damages.
AI in Hiring
Employers that deploy “high-risk artificial intelligence systems” for "consequential decisions" such as job opportunities must take “reasonable care” to protect consumers from algorithmic discrimination. Applicants can correct data and appeal adverse decisions.
Credit Surcharge
A seller or lessor in any sales or lease transaction may impose a surcharge on a buyer who elects to use a credit or charge card not to exceed two percent of the total cost to the buyer with signage in a manner that is visible to customers or, for a sales or lease transaction made online, display before an online customer's completion of the sales or lease transaction in a manner that is visible to the online customer, or in an amount not to exceed the merchant discount fee that the seller or lessor incurs in processing the sales or lease transaction with signage visible to customers.
Landlord Tenant
Exempts hotels and motels from landlord tenant law for rooms rented for less than 30 days.
Sick Leave PTO
Requires all employers in Colorado to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked. Notes that employees are entitled to use no more than 48 hours of sick leave each year unless their employer selects a higher limit.
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There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.
Guest Privacy
It is the duty of each operator of a transient establishment to maintain at all times a register of guests who occupy rental units within the establishment, showing the dates upon which the rental units were occupied by such guests and the rates charged for their occupancy. Each operator shall maintain this register in chronological order, shall make the register available for inspection by the division at any time, and may keep the register in an electronic format. Operators need not make available registers that are more than 2 years old.
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Housekeeping
Bed and breakfasts must provide individual soap as well as clean bath cloths and towels. This only applies to bed and breakfasts which are defined as operator-occupied residence providing accommodations for a charge to the public with no more than 5 guest rooms for rent, in operation for more than 10 nights in a 12 month period.
Innkeeper Laws
Whenever the proprietor or manager of any hotel provides a safe or vault in a convenient place, for the safekeeping of any money, jewels, ornaments, bank notes, bonds, negotiable security, or other valuable papers, precious stones, railroad tickets, articles of silver or gold, or any other valuable property and personal effects of small compass, belonging to or brought in by the guests of such hotel, and notifies the guests thereof by posting notices in not less than 10 conspicuous places in such hotel stating the fact that such safe place is provided in which such articles may be deposited, if such guests neglect or fail to deliver such property to the person in charge of such safe or vault for deposit therein, then the liability of such hotel, the proprietor or manager thereof, for any and all loss or damage to such property or effects sustained by such guest is limited to such loss or damage as may result from the fault or negligence of such proprietor or manager or of his agents or employees, but in no event is such hotel, the proprietor or manager thereof, liable for loss or damage in an amount exceeding $250, regardless of whether such loss or damage is occasioned by theft, the fault or negligence of such proprietor or manager or of his agents or otherwise. If such guests deliver such property to the person in charge of such safe or vault for deposit therein, such hotel, the proprietor or manager thereof, is not liable for the loss of or damage to such property sustained by such guest or other owner thereof in any amount exceeding the sum of $500, regardless of whether such loss or damage is occasioned by theft, the fault or negligence of such proprietor or manager or his agents or employees or otherwise, notwithstanding such property may be of greater value, unless such proprietor or manager has entered into a special agreement in writing with the guest agreeing to assume additional liability.
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There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.
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There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.
Innkeeper Laws
Innkeepers, hotel, boarding house and lodging house keepers enjoy this privilege on all the property which the sojourner has brought to their place, whether it belongs to him or not, because the property so brought into their place has become pledged to them by the mere fact of its introduction into their place.
Landlord Tenant
Allows hotel managers to request that any person on the premises causing unnecessary disturbances or who is damaging or destroying property leave the premises or use a reasonable degree of force to remove a person from the premises. If an individual refuses to leave, law enforcement may be called to remove the person.
Allows accommodations to be refused to individuals who are unable or unwilling to pay, individuals under 18 years of age, the manager reasonably believes an individual is bringing i property that may be dangerous to others such as firearms or explosives, or when occupancy limits would be exceeded.
Sick Leave PTO
Notes that employers who provide paid leave must offer at least 40 hours of paid leave in a 12 month period and provides other requirements for employers who elect to provide paid leave.
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.
Innkeeper Laws
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.
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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.
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Maximum Guest Rate
It shall be the duty of every lodging establishment in this state to post a written or printed copy of the rates charged for each guest room in each guest room. If a different rate is charged for different rooms in such lodging establishment the rate posted in each room shall be the rate that applies to such room. This section shall not apply to lodging establishments that publish current rates electronically on a public internet platform or that do not have more than ten guests on an average each day.
Innkeeper Laws
A person operating a hotel, including all lodging establishments defined in section 315.005, may refuse or deny the use of a room, accommodations, facilities or other privileges of the hotel to any of the following:
(1) An individual who is unwilling or unable to pay for the room, accommodations, facilities, or other privileges of the hotel;
(2) An individual who is visibly intoxicated, under the influence of alcohol or other drug, and is disorderly so as to create a public nuisance;
(3) An individual who the hotel operator reasonably believes is seeking to use a room, accommodations, facilities or other privileges of the hotel for an unlawful purpose;
(4) An individual who 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 explosives or the unlawful use of firearms;
(5) 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.
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There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.
Sick Leave PTO
Requires every employer in private employment to provide paid leave to employees and details how paid leave can accrue. Allows employers to limit the amount of paid leave used to 40 hours per year. Requires employers to provide each employee on each payday an accounting of the hours of paid leave they have available.
Requires employer to allow sick leave to be used to assist or care for a family member with a medical need. Also requires employers to hang a bulletin prepared by the Labor Commissioner with information stating that sick leave can be used to care for family members.
Requires that employees who have been employed for at least 90 days and who is a victim of domestic violence is entitled to no more than 160 hours of leave in a 12 month period to seek treatment, counseling, or attend court proceedings related to domestic violence.
Housekeeping
Requires toilet rooms and bathrooms as well as other rooms, corridors, stairways, elevators, fire escapes, and garages in hotels to be kept in a clean and sanitary condition.
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.
Maximum Guest Rate
No motel operator shall place or cause to be placed any outside sign bearing room rates thereon unless both the minimum and maximum rates for such rental appear in such uniform size as to be readily discernible by the traveling public.
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Housekeeping
Details requirements for housekeeper carts
Details cleaning requirements for hotel furnishings and beddings. Requires that soap and other individually packaged personal hygiene items cannot be reused for customer service bu may be donated to non-profit shelters or food banks
Details requirements for hotel laundry rooms
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.
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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.
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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.
Innkeeper Laws
If an innkeeper or hotel keeper provides a safe in his or her inn or hotel for the safekeeping of money, jewelry, and valuable papers and articles belonging to the guests of such inn or hotel and gives notice thereof by posting in a conspicuous place in the office and public parlors of such inn or hotel the fact that such safe is provided in which such property may be deposited, and a guest neglects to deliver or deposit therein any such property to the person apparently in charge of the office, such innkeeper or hotel keeper shall not be liable for the loss of any such property sustained by such guests, unless such loss occurs through want of ordinary care and diligence of such innkeeper or hotel keeper.
Innkeeper Laws
It shall be the duty of any person owning or operating a hotel to exercise due care and diligence in providing honest and competent employees and to take reasonable precautions to protect the persons and property of the guests of the hotel. No hotel shall be held liable in a sum greater than $300 for the loss of any wearing apparel, baggage, or other property not hereinafter mentioned belonging to a guest when such loss takes place from the room or rooms occupied by the guest.
Unless the loss shall take place from the office of the hotel after the valuables are deposited there, no hotel shall be liable for any loss by any guest of jewelry, money, or other valuables of like nature belonging to any guest if the hotel shall have posted in the room or rooms of the guest in a conspicuous place, and in the office of the hotel, a notice stating that jewelry, money, and other valuables of like nature must be deposited in the office of the hotel. The hotel shall not be obligated to receive from any one guest for deposit in such office any property hereinbefore described exceeding a total value of $500.
Each guest's room shall have suitable locks on its doors and windows unless permanently secured. If a guest fails to lock the doors or windows of his room, the hotel shall not be liable for any property taken from the room in consequence of such failure on the part of the guest. The burden of proof shall be upon the operator of the hotel to show that he complied with the provisions of this section and that the guest failed to comply with these requirements.
In the case of loss by fire or overwhelming disaster, a hotel shall exercise ordinary and reasonable care in the custody of the baggage or other property of its guests, but in no case shall the hotel's liability exceed $250 to any one guest unless the negligence of the hotel was the cause of the fire or overwhelming disaster.
No liability shall attach to any hotel for the baggage, hats, umbrellas, coats, or other wearing apparel of a guest until the same is placed by the guest in the actual custody of an employee of the hotel. The mere depositing of such baggage, hats, umbrellas, coats, or other wearing apparel inside the hotel shall not be construed as putting in actual custody until taken in charge by the hotel or its employee, or properly placed in a room or rooms assigned to the guest.
Nothing contained in this section shall be construed so as to change or alter the principles of law concerning a hotel's liability to a guest or other person for personal injury, nor to exempt in anywise the owner or operator of a hotel from being liable for the value of any property of guests taken or stolen from any room therein by any employee or agent of the hotel.
A notice of the provisions of this section shall be posted conspicuously in each guest's room.
Guest Privacy
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, general or special, any locality may, by ordinance, establish a short-term rental registry and require operators within the locality to register annually. The registration shall be ministerial in nature and shall require the operator to provide the complete name of the operator, the address of each property in the locality offered for short-term rental by the operator, and an attestation that the property owner has granted permission for use of such property as a short-term rental if the operator is a lessee or sublessee. A locality may charge a reasonable fee for such registration related to the actual costs of establishing and maintaining the registry.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes individuals staying in a hotel, motel, extended stay facility, or vacation residential facility from landlord tenant law if that lodging is not their primary residence and if they are there for 90 days or less.
Sick Leave PTO
Requires that all employees accrue at least one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked up to a maximum of 40 hours per year unless the employer sets a higher limit.
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Innkeeper Laws
No hotel, apartment hotel, or innkeeper shall be responsible in an amount in excess of $1,000.00 for the loss or theft of any valuables, including cash, jewelry, etc., which are contained in a package, box, bag, or other container left with the hotel proprietor or innkeeper to be placed in the safe or other depository of the hotel or inn, provided that the liability of the hotel or innkeeper may be increased to an amount in excess of $1,000.00 by a written contract entered into between the parties providing a greater liability; provided, further, that the contract shall not call for any additional cost to the guest.
A notice containing these provisions shall be posted in a conspicuous place in all rooms of the hotel occupied by guests.
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There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.
Maximum Guest Rate
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.
There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.
There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.
There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.
There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.
There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.
There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.
There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.
There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.
There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.
There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.
There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.