HOTEL SAFETY ISSUES.

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View NCGA Bill Details2023-2024 Session
House Bill 41 (Public) Filed Wednesday, February 1, 2023
AN ACT TO CLARIFY THAT OCCUPANTS OF ACCOMMODATIONS PROVIDED BY HOTELS, MOTELS, OR SIMILAR LODGINGS DO NOT CREATE A TENANCY AND ARE NOT SUBJECT TO CHAPTER 42 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES AND TO CLARIFY THAT THESE OCCUPANCIES ARE GOVERNED BY THE STATUTES RELATING TO INNS, HOTELS, AND OTHER TRANSIENT OCCUPANCIES.
Intro. by Bradford, Mills, McNeely, Cotham.

Status: Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate (Senate action) (Feb 27 2023)
H 41

Bill Summaries:

  • Summary date: Feb 15 2023 - View Summary

    House committee substitute adds the following to the 1st edition.

    Repeals GS 42-39(a), which excludes transient occupancy in a hotel, motel, or similar lodging subject to regulation by the Commission for Public Health from the provisions of Article 5 of the Chapter governing residential rental agreements.


  • Summary date: Feb 1 2023 - View Summary

    Identical to S53, filed 2/1/23.

    Amends GS 72-1 to require an innkeeper to provide suitable lodging accommodations for persons accepted as guests in an inn, hotel, motel, recreational vehicle park, campground, or other similar transient occupancy (was, inn or hotel). Defines transient occupancy as the rental of an accommodation by an inn, hotel, motel, recreational vehicle park, campground, or similar lodging to the same guest or occupant for fewer than 90 consecutive days.

    Enacts new GS 42-14.6 providing that the provisions of GS Chapter 42 (landlord and tenant) do not apply to transient occupancies (as defined above). Specifies that an agreement related to a transient occupancy is not deemed to create a tenancy or a residential tenancy unless expressly provided in the agreement.

    Applies to a person renting an accommodation in an inn, hotel, motel, recreational vehicle park, campground, or similar lodging facility on or after the date this act becomes law. Requires that a person's rental period be calculated from the first day of consecutive occupation, or right of occupation, in the lodging facility regardless of whether the period began before the act's effective date.