The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-05-25
TIPPING BILL
FAR REACHING
MISSISSIPPI ANTI TIPPING MEAS.
uRE ls MOST FAR REACHING
IN IRIS PROVISIONS MAKES
PRoPRlEToRs LIABLE or IN
TEREsT TO TRAVELLERS.

Through the efforts of the com
mercial travellers organizations ii the
state Of Mississippi the legislature of
this state has just passed d law pun
ishing by fine any person taking or
giving q gratuity OF tip and likewise
furnishing the proprietor of any hotel.
restaurant, cafe, dining car, railroad
company or sleeping a company, yio-
lating the act or allowing 1t to be vio-
lated. Acopy of the act is to be post
ed in all places where tipping is usu-
ally practised and provides punish
nent in case of refusal or neglect OF
the proprietors of these places to post
the law, writes Ed d. Self. chairman
legislative committee, in Sample Case.
This law is the most f-ar-reaching
legislation on this subject yet enacted
by any of the states, and it will doubt
less be of great interest to travelling
men throughout the United States.
With the hope that the travellers in
other staes will follow Mississippi and
enact similar legislation for the bene-
fit of the travelling public, a COPY of
the act is herewith appended:
IAN act to prohibit hotels. restaur-
ANNf SA~o WILLIS a d dl1EDdU COI11-
panies and sleeping car companies
from allowing tips to be given to en-
ployes; to prohibit all persons from
giving same to employees; to prohibit
the employees of hotels, restaurants,
cafes, dining cars. railroad and Sleep
Ing car companies from receiving
same.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
legislature of the state of Mississippi
that it shall be unlawful in this state
for any hotel, restaurant, cafe. dining
car, railroad company or sleeping car
company to knowingly allow any per-
son in its employ to receive any gra-
tuity, commonly known as a tip from
any patron or passenger; and it shall
be unlawful for any patron Of any
hotel, restaurant, cafe, dining a Of
any passenger on any railroad train
or sleeping car to give to any employee
any such gratuity; and it shall be UNI
lawful for any employe of any hotel,
restaurant, cafe, dining car, railroad
company or sleeping car company, to
receive n gratuity or tip
Section 2. BY gratuity or tip as
used in this act, is meant any extra
compensation of any kind which any
hotel, restaurant cafe, dining car, rail-
road company or sleeping car COM
pany, or the manager, officer, or any
agent thereof in charge Of same, al
lows to be given an employe, or which
any person gives to any employee, or
which is received by any employe, and
is not a part of the regular charge OF
the hotel, restaurant, cafe, dining car
railroad company or sleeping car COM
pany, which is not a part Of it's regular
charge for the thing bought or service
rendered, or a part of the services
which by contract it is under duty to
render. No hotel, restaurant, cafe,
dining car, railroad company or sleep
ing car company shall evade this act
by adding to the regular charge, d.
rectly or indirectly, anything intended
for, or to be used, or to be given as a
gratuity or tip to the employee. All
charges made by the hotel, restaurant,
cafe, dining car, railroad company or
sleeping car company must be made
by 1t and be in good faith a charge
for the service which it renders, ex-
elusive Of the service which it furnish
es through its employees.
Section 8. Each hotel shall post. q
copy of this act in the Office and in
each room, and each restaurant and
cafe shall post at least two copies of
this act in two conspicuous places in
same, and each dining car, railroad
or sleeping car company doing business
within this state shall post two copies
of this act in conspicuous places in
each passenger coach or sleeping car,
Section 4. Any hotel, restaurant,
cafe, dining car, railroad company or
sleeping car company, and the man
ager, officer or agent of same in charge,
violating this act, or wilfully or neg
~ligently allowing the same to be vio-
lated In any way, shall each be sub
ject to a penalty not to exceed 500
for each tip allowed to be given. II
any person shall give to any such en-
ploye any gratuity or tip such person