An Act To Amend the Laws Regarding Public Rest Rooms
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 0019
Committee: Health and Human Services
Sponsors: BEAUDOIN, BLANCHARD, CASAVANT, CROCKETT, HOGAN, PIEH, TRINW ARD, TUTTLE, VALENTINO
Amends: 22 MRSA §168

Legislative Document 
No. 19 
H.P.14 
House of Representatives, January 5,2009 
An Act To Amend the Laws Regarding Public Rest Rooms 
Reference to the Committee on Health and Human Services suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative BEAUDOIN of Biddeford. 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Cosponsored by Representatives: BLANCHARD of Old Town, CASAVANT of Biddeford, 
CROCKETT of Augusta, HOGAN of Old Orchard Beach, PIEH of Bremen, TRINW ARD of 
Waterville, TUTTLE of Sanford, VALENTINO of Sa co. 
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 22 MRS A §1685, sub-§2 is enacted to read: 
2. Place of public accommodation. "Place of public accommodation" means a 
facility, operated by a public or private entity, whose operations fall within at least one of 
the following categories: 
A. 
An inn, hotel, motel or other place of lodging, whether conducted for the 
entertainment or accommodation of transient guests or those seeking health, 
recreation or rest; 
B. A restaurant, eating house, bar, tavern, buffet, saloon, soda fountain, ice cream 
parlor or other establishment serving or selling food or drink; 
C. A motion picture house, theater, concert hall, stadium, roof garden, airdrome or 
other place of exhibition or entertainment; 
D. An auditorium, convention center, lecture hall or other place of public gathering; 
E. A bakery, grocery store, clothing store, hardware store, shopping center, garage, 
gasoline station or other sales or rental establishment; 
F. A laundromat, dry cleaner, bank, barber shop, beauty shop, travel service, shoe 
repair service, funeral parlor, gas station, office of an accountant or lawyer, 
pharmacy, insurance office, professional office of a health care provider, hospital, 
dispensary, clinic, bathhouse or other service establishment; 
G. All public conveyances operated on land or water or in the air as well as a 
terminal, depot or other station used for specified public transportation; 
H. A museum, library, gallery or other place of public display or collection; 
1. A park, zoo, amusement park, race course, skating rink, fair, bowling alley, golf 
course, golf club, country club, gymnasium, health spa, shooting gallery, billiard or 
pool parlor, swimming pool, seashore accommodation or boardwalk or other place of 
recreation, exercise or health; 
J. A nursery, elementary, secondary, undergraduate or postgraduate school or other 
place of education; 
K. A day-care center, senior citizen center, homeless shelter, food bank, adoption 
agency or other social service center establishment; 
L. A municipal building, courthouse, town hall or other establishment of the State or 
a local government; and 
M. Any establishment that in fact caters to, or offers its goods, facilities or services 
to, or solicits or accepts patronage from, the general public. 
When a place of public accommodation is located in a private residence, the portion of 
the residence used exclusively as a residence is not covered by this chapter, but that 
portion used exclusively in the operation of the place of public accommodation or that 
portion used both for the place of public accommodation and for the residential purposes 
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is covered by this chapter. 
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Sec. 2. 22 MRSA §168S, sub-§3 is enacted to read: 
3. Public accommodation. "Public accommodation" means a public or private 
entity that owns, leases, leases to or operates a place of public accommodation. 
Sec. 3. 22 MRS A §1686-B is enacted to read: 
§1686-B. Public rest room facilities 
In any place of public accommodation that provides rest room facilities, disposable 
toilet seat covers must be provided in those facilities. 
Sec. 4. Maine Revised Statutes headnote amended; revision clause. In the 
Maine Revised Statutes, Title 22, chapter 270-B, in the chapter headnote, the words 
"public rest room facilities in eating places" are amended to read "public rest room 
facilities" and the Revisor of Statutes shall implement this revision when updating, 
publishing or republishing the statutes. 
SUMMARY 
This bill requires that all places of public accommodation that provide rest room 
facilities provide disposable toilet seat covers.