Oklahoma § 15-503 - Hotels, apartment hotels, inns - Guest rooms to have

§ 15-503. Hotels, apartment hotels, inns - Guest rooms to have

suitable locks.

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.

Laws 1939, p. 341, § 1.

§15-503a. Safe, vault or other depository - Notice - Liability to

guest for loss of property.

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 Three Hundred Dollars

($300.00) 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 Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00). Provided,

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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 Three

Hundred Dollars ($300.00) and assume liability as shall be provided

for in such written agreement.

Laws 1939, p. 342, § 2.

§15-503b. Liability for loss of or damage to property of guest.

Except as provided for in Section 2 of this act, whenever the

proprietor, manager or operator of any hotel, apartment hotel or inn

shall have complied with the provisions of Section 1 of this act

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 Two

Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) 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 One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for each

trunk and its contents; the sum of Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00) for

each valise and its contents; the sum of Twenty-five Dollars

($25.00) for each package, box or bundle; the sum of Fifty Dollars

($50.00) for all other miscellaneous effects and property including

wearing apparel, but in no event shall the total liability exceed

the sum of Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00), 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 Fifty Dollars ($50.00). 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 One Hundred Dollars

($100.00) for each trunk and its contents; the sum of Seventy-five

Dollars ($75.00) for each valise and its contents; the sum of Twenty

Five Dollars ($25.00) for each package, box or bundle; the sum of

Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for all other miscellaneous effects and

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property, including wearing apparel, but in no event shall such

liability exceed the sum of Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00),

unless such proprietor, manager or operator shall have contracted in

writing with such guest to assume a greater liability.

Laws 1939, p. 342, § 3.

§15-503c. "Apartment hotel" defined.

An apartment hotel, within the meaning of this act, includes a

hotel wherein apartments are rented for fixed periods of time,

either furnished or unfurnished, to the occupants of which the

proprietor, manager or operator thereof supplies food, if required.

Laws 1939, p. 343, § 4.

§15-503d. "Guest" defined.

"Guest", within the meaning of this act, shall include transient

guests, permanent guests, tenants, lodgers and patrons who have

registered at and have been assigned a room in such hotel, apartment

hotel or inn.

Laws 1939, p. 343, § 5.