Code of Alabama - Title 34: Professions and Businesses - Chapter 15 - Hotels, Inns, and Other Transient Lodging Places
- Section 34-15-1 Definitions
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) HOTEL. Such term includes...
- Section 34-15-2 Operation of chapter
This chapter shall operate as, or as a part of or in conjunction with, any rules and regulations affecting hotels provided and promulgated by the...
- Section 34-15-3 Rules and regulations
The State Committee of Public Health shall make and promulgate reasonable rules and regulations for the purpose of carrying this chapter into effect.
- Section 34-15-4 Duty of hotel owners, operators, etc., to maintain conditions, smoke detectors, etc
(a) Every owner, manager, or operator of a hotel shall maintain the physical and sanitary condition of the structure, its equipment, water supply, and human...
- Section 34-15-5 State Hotel Inspector and assistants - Generally
The State Health Officer is ex officio State Hotel Inspector, and the inspectors of the State Board of Health, or that may hereafter be of...
- Section 34-15-6 State Hotel Inspector and assistants - Police power
The State Hotel Inspector and his or her assistants have police power to enter any hotel at reasonable hours to determine whether the provisions of...
- Section 34-15-8 Certificate of inspection
Upon inspecting a hotel, the inspector shall report the condition thereof to the State Hotel Inspector, together with its sanitary score or rating, whereupon, if...
- Section 34-15-9 Failure to comply with rules and regulations
The State Hotel Inspector, upon ascertaining by inspection or otherwise that any hotel is being operated contrary to the rules and regulations of the State...
- Section 34-15-10 Closure of hotels
The State Hotel Inspector, or any of his or her authorized representatives when acting under his or her direction, may close any hotel if the...
- Section 34-15-11 Special contract between hotel and guest
A hotel may require any guest, or person proposing to become a guest, to enter into a special contract as to the duration, kind and...
- Section 34-15-12 Safe depository for valuable articles - Requirement; notice
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...
- Section 34-15-13 Safe depository for valuable articles - Conditional liability
Such hotel as shall maintain a safe depository and display notice as is required by Section 34-15-12 shall, in no event and under no circumstances...
- Section 34-15-14 Safe depository for valuable articles - Limitation of liability
If the liability of a hotel is not otherwise eliminated or limited or varied under the provisions of Section 34-15-11 or 34-15-13, its liability for...
- Section 34-15-15 Liability for loss of baggage
(a) Every hotel shall provide a check room or other convenient storage place for all baggage of its registered guests, those intending to become guests...
- Section 34-15-16 Failure or neglect to provide sufficient locks, etc
Any proprietor, owner, or manager of any hotel who shall fail or neglect to provide good and sufficient locks, latches, or bolts to all the...
- Section 34-15-17 Removal of undesirable guests
(a) The manager, assistant manager, desk clerk, or other person in charge of or in authority in a hotel, any of whom are hereinafter referred...
- Section 34-15-19 Obtaining accommodations by fraud or misrepresentation; prima facie evidence
Proof that food, lodging, or other accommodation was obtained by false pretense or by false or fictitious show or pretense of any baggage or other...
- Section 34-15-20 Obtaining accommodations by fraud or misrepresentation; prima facie evidence - Posting of law in hotel or inn
Every hotelkeeper and innkeeper in this state shall keep a copy of Sections 13A-8-10 through 13A-8-10.3 and 34-15-19, printed in distinct type, posted in the...
Last modified: May 3, 2021