Ohio · statute · Ohio Rev. Code ch. 3731 · 21 active provisions
(A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Hotel" means a transient hotel, extended stay hotel, or residential hotel."Hotel" includes any structure consisting of one or more buildings containing any combination of more than five guestrooms that are each approved by the building code official having jurisdiction and the state fi…
(A) The state fire marshal shall make such rules as are necessary to carry out this chapter, which shall include, but are not limited to, rules establishing requirements to renew a license issued under this chapter and fees for licensure and renewal and for inspections of hotels. Except as provided in division (G) of s…
(A) Every person in the business of conducting a hotel or an SRO facility shall procure, in accordance with the requirements specified in this chapter and the rules adopted pursuant to it, a license for each hotel or SRO facility conducted or proposed to be conducted. (B) No hotel or SRO facility shall be maintained, c…
(A) On or before the first day of December of each year, the holder of a hotel or SRO license shall submit a renewal application as prescribed by the state fire marshal with the appropriate renewal fee. (B) The renewal fee for each hotel or SRO facility license shall be as follows: (a) For a hotel or SRO facility conta…
(A) Transient hotels may offer extended stay temporary residence guest accommodations within any dwelling units or transient sleeping room with dwelling unit features within the structure if such units or sleeping rooms are specifically constructed and approved as also being dwelling units with provisions for living, e…
(A) Notwithstanding division (A)(2) of section 3731.01 of the Revised Code, a transient hotel may allow a guest to stay in a transient sleeping room in the hotel for a continuous period of two hundred seventy days or less if all of the following conditions are satisfied: (1) The transient hotel satisfies the requiremen…
(A)(1) The state fire marshal shall inspect, prior to issuance or renewal of a license and at any other time necessary, every hotel and SRO facility which comes within sections 3731.01 to 3731.21 of the Revised Code. (2) The state fire marshal shall have the right of entry into such hotels and SRO facilities at any rea…
(A) Upon notice and hearing, the state fire marshal may suspend or revoke any license or impose a fine against an owner, proprietor, or agent of a hotel or SRO facility licensed under this chapter for violation of sections 3731.01 to 3731.21 of the Revised Code, the rules adopted pursuant to those sections, or the stat…
All enforcement actions pursued and citations issued with respect to state fire code violations shall comply with sections 3737.41 to 3737.51 of the Revised Code.
No person shall fail or refuse to comply with sections 3731.01 to 3731.21 of the Revised Code or the state fire code adopted pursuant to section 3737.82 of the Revised Code. Each day of violation of such sections constitutes a separate offense.
In every transient hotel and extended stay hotel and SRO facility in which the person, firm, or corporation operating it is required to have a license, the premises shall be kept in a sanitary condition.
Every hotel and SRO facility shall have proper plumbing, lighting, and ventilation which shall conform to Chapters 3781. and 3791. of the Revised Code.
In all political subdivisions of this state where a system of water works and sewerage is maintained for public use, every hotel and SRO facility shall be equipped with a sufficient number of suitable water closets for the accommodation of its guests, which water closets shall be ventilated and connected by proper plum…
(A) Every transient hotel and extended stay hotel shall provide in each sleeping room or extended stay temporary residence a bed, bunk, cot, or other furniture designed for sleeping for each guest occupying such accommodations. Every hotel shall provide each bed, bunk, cot, or other sleeping place for the use of transi…
All bedding used in any hotel must be thoroughly aired, disinfected, and kept clean. No bedding which is infested with vermin or bedbugs shall be used on any bed in any hotel. All floors, carpets, and equipment in hotels, and all walls and ceilings shall be kept in sanitary condition.
When any room has been occupied by a person having an infectious or contagious disease, such room shall not be used again until it is thoroughly fumigated and the bedding disinfected.
(A) Each sleeping room of a hotel shall include a separate sleeping and bath area.(B) No sleeping room of a hotel or an SRO facility shall include cooking facilities unless the facilities have been approved by the state, municipal, township, or county building department having jurisdiction over the hotel or SRO facili…
The owner or manager of each hotel shall post in a conspicuous place in each room thereof a card or sign stating the price per day of such room, and shall file with the state fire marshal a diagram or list showing the price of each room in the hotel and no advances shall be made in this schedule, without twenty days' w…
The state fire marshal or the state fire marshal's assistants shall accept no gift or gratuity in any form from any hotel or SRO facility under penalty of summary dismissal.
(A) If a health official determines that an owner, keeper, or lessee has not complied with the requirements for sanitation specified in sections 3731.09, 3731.11, 3731.12, and 3731.13 of the Revised Code, the health official shall notify the state fire marshal, and the state fire marshal may take any action permitted u…
Whoever violates section 3731.03 or 3731.05 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.