Hospitality Law Database
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There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.
There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.
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.
Innkeeper Laws
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.
Innkeeper Laws
An innkeeper shall be liable for loss or injury to personal property not exceeding $1,000 in the aggregate, $500 for each trunk and its contents, $250 for each traveling bag and its contents, $250 for each box, bundle, or package and its contents, and $250 for all other personal property.
If an innkeeper keeps a fireproof safe, there shall be no liability for lost items if notice is given to a guest, either personally or by printed notice in the office or room, and in any case is not liable for more than $500.
An innkeeper has the right to evict a guest if the guest refuses to depart the guest room at checkout time if the guest is provided written notice and the innkeeper has a contractual obligation to provide the room to an arriving person.
Where a minor unaccompanied by an adult seeks accommodations, the innkeeper may require a parent or guardian of the minor, or another responsible adult, to assume, in writing, full liability for any and all proper charges and other obligations incurred by the minor for accommodations, food and beverages, and other services provided by or through the innkeeper, as well as for any and all injuries or damage caused by the minor to any person or property.
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.
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.
Innkeeper Laws
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.
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.
Innkeeper Laws
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.
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.
Innkeeper Laws
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.
Innkeeper Laws
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.
Sick Leave PTO
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.
An innkeeper may refuse to provide lodging or services to or may remove from a lodging establishment an individual who refuses to pay or is unable to pay for lodging or services; while on the premises of the lodging establishment is under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or other intoxicating substance so as to create a public nuisance; while on the premises is disorderly so as to create a public nuisance;
destroys, damages, or defaces property of the lodging establishment or its guests, or threatens to do so; the innkeeper reasonably believes is using the lodging establishment for the unlawful possession or use of a controlled dangerous substance for the consumption of alcohol by an individual under the age of 21 years; the innkeeper reasonably believes possesses property that may be dangerous to other individuals, such as firearms or explosives; or refuses to abide by any conspicuously posted rule or policy of the lodging establishment.
If an innkeeper seeks to remove an individual from a lodging establishment as provided under this section, the innkeeper shall notify the individual, either orally or in writing, that the lodging establishment refuses to provide further lodging or services to the individual and that the individual should immediately leave the lodging establishment; and if the individual has paid for lodging or services in advance, refund any unused portion of the advance payment, but the lodging establishment may withhold payment for a full day's lodging if the individual was lodged for a portion of a day.
If an individual attempts to remain in a lodging establishment after having been requested to leave under the provisions of this section, an innkeeper may if the individual is a guest, lock the door of the individual's room; remove the individual's baggage and other personal property; and using no more force than necessary, eject the individual from the lodging establishment.
An innkeeper may require a prospective guest to demonstrate an ability to pay by cash or valid credit card. An innkeeper may require each guest at a lodging establishment to register and may require the guest to produce a valid driver's license; a valid military identification card; a valid passport; or any valid government issued identification card.
An innkeeper may limit the number of individuals who may occupy a particular guest room in a lodging establishment.
Sick Leave PTO
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.
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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.
Notes that guesses who intentionally continue to occupy a hotel room after their scheduled departure without written approval of the hotel manager are considered trespassers.
Allows hotel managers to remove guesses who refuse or are unable to pay for accommodations, are obviously intoxicated or disorderly, destroy or threaten to destroy property, cause a disturbance, are in possession of a controlled substance, are under 21 and using alcohol on the premises, have brought in a dangerous object such as a firearm or explosive, or violate any hotel rule.
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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.
There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.
There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.
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.
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 a motor vehicle brought by a patron upon the premises or left upon the premises, because of theft, burglary, fire or otherwise, in the absence of gross neglect by the owner or keeper.
Every owner or keeper of any hotel, inn, motel, motor court, or boardinghouse or lodging house in this State shall have the right to evict from such premises anyone who acts in a disorderly manner, or who destroys the property of any such owner or keeper, or who causes a public disturbance in or upon such premises.
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.
Landlord Tenant
Excludes occupancy in a hotel or motel for less than 30 consecutive days from landlord tenant law.
Allows innkeepers to evict guests who are disorderly or destroying property.
Innkeeper Laws
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.
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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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Landlord Tenant
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.
There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.
There are no regulations for this jurisdiction and the selected filters.
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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.
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
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.
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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.
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.