Source: https://www.maineinns.com/government-affairs/laws-and-regulations/registration-of-guests/
Timestamp: 2018-08-16 14:11:41
Document Index: 138797025

Matched Legal Cases: ['ART 1', 'ART 6', 'ART 1', 'ART 6', '§3821', '§2']

Registration Of Guests – Maine Innkeepers Association
(TITLE 30-A: MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES; HEADING: PL 1987 c. 737 PART 1; SUBPART 6: REGULATION LICENSES AND PERMITS; CHAPTER 183: ECONOMIC REGULATION; SUBCHAPTER III: INNKEEPERS VICTUALERS AND LODGING HOUSES; ARTICLE 3: REGISTRATION OF GUESTS SECTION 3821)
Every person conducting any hotel or lodging house shall have a register kept and maintained in the hotel or lodging house at all times. The name of every guest or person renting a room or rooms in the hotel or lodging house shall be written in the register. The person renting the room or rooms or someone under that person’s direction shall sign the register. The proprietor of the hotel or lodging house or the proprietor’s agent shall then write the number of each room assigned to and occupied by the guest together with the date that room is rented opposite the names so registered.(9/2005)
The proprietor or the proprietor’s agent shall keep and maintain a record showing the date when the occupant of each room surrenders the room. This record may be part of the register.
Both the register and the record shall be kept for two years and be available at all reasonable times to the inspection of any lawful agent of the licensing authority or any full-time law enforcement officers. The guest register may be "kept" within the meaning of this section when reproduced on any photographic microfilm or other process that reproduces the original record.
Release Date: 11/12/2002 12:00:00 AM
Carol Gorke
We have a Choice Hotels Membership that is in my name hence that is the name that shows on the registration when we get to the motel. My husband usually registers when we arrive. Last year at a facility in Bangor they would not let him register and insisted it was a Maine law that I had to do the registration since the account was in my name.
Having just read “(TITLE 30-A: MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES; HEADING: PL 1987 c. 737 PART 1; SUBPART 6: REGULATION LICENSES AND PERMITS; CHAPTER 183: ECONOMIC REGULATION; SUBCHAPTER III: INNKEEPERS VICTUALERS AND LODGING HOUSES; ARTICLE 3: REGISTRATION OF GUESTS SECTION 3821)”, I believe he had the right to do the registration based on the following excerpt — ” The person renting the room or rooms or someone under that person’s direction shall sign the register”.
I would appreciate your confirming if I am correct or not.
§3821. Register; contents; inspection; penalty
1. Register of guests. Every person conducting a hotel or lodging house shall have a register kept and maintained in the hotel or lodging house at all times. The name of every guest or person renting a room or rooms in the hotel or lodging house must be written in the register. The person renting the room or rooms, or someone under that person’s direction, shall sign the register. The proprietor of the hotel or lodging house, or the proprietor’s agent, shall then write the number of each room assigned to each guest, together with the date that room is rented, opposite the name or names so registered. A guest of a hotel or lodging house is not a tenant pursuant to the landlord and tenant laws as provided in Title 14.
[ 2013, c. 209, §2 (AMD) .]
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