The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-02
CHAPTER 569-H. F. No. 500.

AN ACT relating to the equipment and resu-
i Ia Of hotels and restaurants. defining
thereof, providing for penalties for viola
lions of the provisions Of this act, and re-
pealing Chapter 343 Of, the General Laws of
1905. and Chapter 2O6 Of the General Laws
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State
of Minnesota
Section 1. Every building or structure,
kept, used as, maintained as, or advertised
where sleeping accommodations are furnished
to the public whether with or without meals
shall for the purpose of this act be deemed
a hotel.
Every building or other structure, and all
buildings in connection, kept, used or main
tanned as or advertised as. held out to
the public to be place where meals and
modations, shall for the purpose Of this act be
deemed to be a restaurant, and the person
or persons in charge thereof, whether as
owner, lessee, manager or agent, for the pur-
pose of this act shall be deemed the pro-
pr1etor OF such restaurant, and whenever the
word ,'restaurant" shall occur in this act, it
shall be construed to mean such structure
as described in this section.
Sec. 2. For the purpose of carrying into
effect the provisions Of this act, the Governor
shall appoint hotel inspector at salary Of
$500 per year, payable monthly, who shall
urnsS ee tn sa to
keep a set of books for public use and in
spection, showing the condition OF all hotels
and restaurants, together with the name or
names Of the. owner. proprietor or manager
thereof. and showing their sanitary condition,
and any other information that may be for
the betterment of the public service, and like
wise shall assist in the enforcement of any
Health and Pure Food Department Of this
state, relating to hotels and restaurants.
Sec. 3. Within sixty days after the
passage OF this act and each year thereafter,
every person, firm or corporation now engaged
in the business of conducting a hotel or
restaurant, and every person, firm or cor
poraton who shall hereafter engage in con-
Quoting such business, must procure a license
for each hotel or restaurant so conducted, or
proposed to be conducted, provided that one
license shall be sufficient for each combined
hotel and restaurant where each are con-
same management. Each license shall expire
on the 31st day of December next following
its issuance. The hotel inspector shall furnish
to any person, firm or corporation desiring to
conduct hotel restaurant an application
blank to be filed out by such person, firm OF
corporation for license therefor, and which 1Icl
name and address Of the owner of the build
ing, the lessee and manager OF such hotel on
f bunF and to be
proposed to be used for such business the
location of the same, the name under which
by the hotel Inspector, and such application
shall be accompanied by license fee Of $500
state Treasury on the first day of January,
April, July and October Of each year.
Upon the approval Of such application by
such hotel inspector, a license to conduct such
be issued by such hotel inspector. No hotel
or retaurant shall be maintained and con-
Quoted in this state after the taking effect Of
therefor as herein provided, and no license
shall be transferable Provided, however,
that after the for Of penx
issuance of such license. such hotel or res
taurant shall be permitted to operate as such
until the final refusal Of such application by
the inspector.
Provided. also that no hotel or restaurant
shall be denied relief in the courts in any
action Instituted by either such hotel or o res
has not been issued to such hotel or res
taurant.
Sec. 4. 1t shall be the duty Of such hotel
inspector to inspect or cause to be inspected
at least once annually every hotel and res
eniS the rr o enter snd have
cess thereto at any reasonable time, and
whenever, upon such inspection 1t shall be
spected is not being conducted or is not
equipped in the manner required by the pro
visions Of this act, or Is being conducted IN
such manner as to violate any Of the laws OF
this state, it shall thereupon be the duty Of
the hotel inspector to notify the owner. pro-
prietor or agent in charge of such business
or the owner or agent of the building 80 occu-
pied, Of such condition so found. and such
owner. proprietor Or agent shall forthwith
comply with the provisions Of this act unless
otherwise herein provided. A reasonable time
may be granted by the hotel inspector for
compliance with the provisions OF this act.
Sec. ). Every hotel and restaurant in this
state shall be properly plumbed, lighted and
ventilated and shall be conducted in every
department with strict regard to health, com
such proper lighting shall be construed to ap-
ply to both. daylight and illumination, and
that such proper plumbing shall be construed
to mean that all plumbing and drainage shall
be constructed and plumbed according to APP
proved sanitary PRINCIPLES, and that such
at least one door and one window In each
sleeping room.
No room shall be used for sleeping room
which does not open to the outside OF the
and ali sleeping rooms shall have at least one
window to the outside OF the building or
light wells, air shafts or courts and shall
have one door opening on hallway.
least one window with openings 20 arranged
as to provide easy access to the outside Of
the building light wells. air shafts or courts.
-. Provided. that the provisions OF Paragraph
Ia and of this section shall not apply to
any hotel in which the compartments are ar
plan, in conformity with the provisions Of
local ordinances and regulations. -. L.. e. .
In all cities, towns and villages where
system Of water works and sewerage Is main
ing house shall, within six months after the
passage Of this act, be equipped with suitable
water closets for the accommodation OF It's
guests, which water closet or closets shall be