The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
| Published in The Topeka State Journal
March 24. 191T.l


SENATE BILL NO. 39S
AN ACT relating to restaurants hotels
roomine houses. apartment houses; plac-
ing restaurants under the management
of the state hotel commissioner and rules
promulgated thereby. repeating section
5ns6 and amending sections $685. 509s and
5f0s of the General Statutes of Kansas
of 1915.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Kansas
Section 1. That every building or other
structure siIas kept used, mainta,in,ed, adver-
without sleeping accommodate ions, together
with all outbuildings in connection there
defined to be 5er OF ths act
proper application the hotel commissioner
shall Issue o-such ove-,ieseribed bust
vided. that nothing in this act shall be
construed to prevent the use of any name
the proprietor of licensed restaurant may
desire to apply to his business, which name
does not include the word hotel room
ing house" or Apartment house, That
sgen nt ~ mt s sna be aner the man
viden for in section 50S2 of the General
Statutes of Kansas of 1915 and the rules
by such hotel commissioner.
Ser. p That section 5OS5 of the General
That every building or other structure
kept used, maintained, advertised, or held
out to the public to be place where ac-
single or in suites for light housekeeping.
or both, but where no dining room or cafe
Is maintained in the same building. or I'M
building containing four apartments or
more, regardless of the number of tenants
! therein. together with any buildings in
connection Herewith, SHALL for the pur-
pose of this act, be deemed an apartment
house, and shall not have the right to use
connection with such business. Upon
proper application the hotel commissioner
shall issue TO such above described bust
ness license to conduct an apartment
house; provided that nothing In this act
shall be construed to prevent the use of
any name the proprietor. of licensed
apartment house may desire to apply to
his business WHICH name does not include
the words hotel" or -'rooming house
era statutes Of isiS shall read el fh as fa
lows: All bedding. including mattresses,
quilts, blankets, pillows, sheets. and com
this state be-
/ disinfected and kept cleas. provided, that
no bedding. pillows, sheets. or comforts,
Unfit for further use; provided further,
| that no mattress on any bed in hotel
or roomine house shall be used which Il
made of moss. sea grass, excelsior. husks
or shoddy. Any room in any hotel, room
| ing house, apartment house. or restaurant
infested with verrnin or bedbugs shall be
| funfgated.. disinfeeted and renovated until
| such verfnin or bedbugs are extnrfninated
! All floors. carpets and equipment In ho-
| tells. restaurants. or r0oning houses. in
GLIDING wallis and ceilings. shall be kept in
a clean and sanitary condition at ali times
Walls and ceilings in hotels, restaurants
apartment houses, and rooRling houses,
must be well piastered and kept well
/ plHstered.
] Sec. 4. Section 509S of the General Stat
utes of 1915 shall read as follows: Every
! hotel. ruoming house. apartment house OF
restaurant in this state. which is over two
| stories in height, shall be equipped with
an iron stairway. fire escape fire escapes
on the outside of the building. connecting
on each floor above the ground floor and
to the eornice of the building with open
ings from each floor. which shall be well
/ fastened and secured. with landings not
less than six feet in length and three feet
in width, guarded by an iron railing not
less than thirty inches in height Such
| landing shall be connected by iron stairs