Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 0905
Committee Amendment CA_A_S160 (Senate)
Amends: 30-A MRSA §3802, 30-A MRSA §3821, 30-A MRSA §3822, 30-A MRSA §3838

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT A" to S.P. 313, 
Act To Modernize the Innkeeping Statutes" 
L.D. 905, Bill, "An 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting 
clause and before the summary and inserting in its place the 
following: 
'Sec. I. 30-A MRSA §3802, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 1987, c. 
737, Pt. A, §2 and Pt. C, §106 and amended by PL 1989, c. 6; c. 
9, §2; and c. 104, Pt. C, §§8 and 10, is further amended to read: 
2. 
Overcharge liability. 
No keeper may charge or collect a 
sum greater than the rate shown in the posted schedule. 
Any 
keeper who charges or collects more than the rate shown in the 
posted schedule is liable to the person so charged or who paid 
the bill in an amount equal to 
~-~4mes the total amount of the 
bill collected minus the rate shown in the posted schedule. 
Sec. 2. 30-A MRSA §3821, sub-§I, as enacted by PL 1987, c. 
737, Pt. A, §2 and Pt. C, §106 and amended by PL 1989, c. 6; c. 
9, §2; and c. 104, Pt. C, §§8 and 10, is further amended to read: 
1. 
Register of guests. 
Every person conducting aBY g 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 
el'-~-e-l:l-pyiB~ a 
room or rooms in the hotel or 
lodging house saa±± must be written in the register. 
The person 
renting 
the 
room 
or 
rooms, 
or 
someone 
under 
that person's 
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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 aBs--GGGUp-:i-ed--by each guest, 
together with the date that room is rented, opposite the name or 
names so registered. 
Sec. 3. 30-A MRSA §3822, sub-§ 1, as amended by PL 1995, c. 88, 
§2, is further amended to read: 
1. 
Registration. 
All persons eeeliFyiB'j renting a room or 
rooms 
in 
a 
hotel 
or 
lodging 
house 
must 
register 
or 
have 
themselves registered in the hotel or lodging house register. 
The innkeeper may require the registering guest to produce a 
valid driver's license, or other identification satisfactory to 
the 
innkeeper, 
setting forth the 
name 
and 
residence of the 
guest. 
If the guest is a minor, the innkeeper may require a 
parent of 
the guest 
to 
register 
and 
to 
accept 
in writing 
liability for the guest room costs, taxes, all charges incurred 
by the minor and any damages to the guest room or its furnishings 
caused by the minor while a guest at the hotel or lodging house. 
Sec. 4. 30-A MRSA §3838, sub-§2, as amended by PL 1997, c. 59, 
§l, is further amended to read: 
2. 
Minor. 
Any person who has not attained 18 years of age 
liB*ess-that-Fe~seB. 
An innkeeper or campground owner may, at the 
innkeeper's 
or 
campground 
owner's 
discretion, 
grant 
the 
accommodations, facilities and privileges of a hotel, 
lodging 
house or campground to a minor if that minor: 
A. 
Presents a signed notification from a parent that the 
parent accepts liability e~ iQI the guest room or campground 
site costs, taxes, all charges by the minor and any damages 
to the guest room or its furnishings or to the campground 
site caused by the minor while a guest at the hotel, lodging 
house or campground; and 
B. 
Provides the innkeeper or campground owner with a valid 
credit card number or cash deposit to cover the guest room 
or campground site costs, taxes, charges by the minor and 
any damages to the guest room or its furnishings or to the 
campground site caused by the minor. 
Any 
cash deposit 
provided must be refunded to the extent not used to cover 
any charges or damages as determined by the innkeeper or 
campground 
owner 
following 
room 
or 
campground 
site 
inspection at check-out;' 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT A" to S.P. 313, L.D. 905 
SUMMARY 
This amendment replaces the bill. 
It removes the treble 
damages provision for overcharges by keepers of hotels, inns and 
lodging 
houses 
and 
instead 
requires 
that 
a 
guest 
who 
is 
overcharged be reimbursed the amount charged minus the posted 
rate for the room. It also requires that a person conducting any 
hotel 
or 
lodging house 
maintain 
a 
register of all persons 
renting, but not those occupying, the room. 
This amendment also 
provides that innkeepers or campground owners have the discretion 
to deny accommodations to minors. 
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