RS 21:1 Title 21hotels and lodging houses

TITLE 21 HOTELS AND LODGING HOUSES

CHAPTER 1.  SANITARY CONDITIONS

§1.  Bed linens; duty as to

A.  Every hotel, motel, or innkeeper shall furnish clean and fresh bed linens, unused by any other person since the last laundering thereof, on all beds assigned to the use of any guest or patron of such inn, motel, or hotel.

B.  Whoever fails or refuses to comply with the provisions and requirements of this Section shall be fined not less than one hundred and fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned for not more than ten days, or both.  

C.  The provisions of this Section shall be enforced by the state health officer and the office of health services and environmental quality of the Department of Health and Hospitals as provided for in R.S. 40:5, at the request of the parish health officer in the parish where the hotel, motel, or inn is located.  

Amended by Acts 1982, No. 32, §1.