Louisiana · statute · La. Rev. Stat. tit. 21 · 32 active provisions
A. Every hotel, motel, or innkeeper shall furnish clean and fresh bed linens, unused by any other person since the last laundering thereof, on all beds assigned to the use of any guest or patron of such inn, motel, or hotel. B. Whoever fails or refuses to comply with the provisions and requirements of this Section shal…
Every hotel or innkeeper shall properly screen with wire cloth or gauze, mesh not to be less than sixteen to the inch, the doors and windows of the kitchen and dining-room, and all openings therein, of such inn or hotel. Whoever fails or refuses to comply with the provisions and requirements of this Section shall be fi…
A. Every keeper, manager, or person in charge of the conduct of any hotel, motel, or inn shall keep the closets, bathrooms, and toilet facilities provided for the use of its guests and patrons cleaned and maintained in a sanitary condition. B. Whoever fails or refuses to comply with the provisions and requirements of t…
Any municipality or city or parish governing authority may prohibit any hotel, motel, or inn or bed and breakfast from charging for a room for less than a twenty-four-hour period. No such entity shall charge an hourly rate.
This Chapter does not apply to private boarding houses.
A. No person shall: (1) Obtain accommodations at any hotel, inn, boarding house or restaurant or procure food without paying therefor, with intent to defraud, except when credit is given by express agreement. (2) Obtain credit with intent to defraud at any hotel, inn, boarding house or restaurant for food or accommodat…
The failure of any person to pay the proper charges due for any food, lodging, beverages, or anything of value due to any hotel, inn, boarding house or restaurant before departing from the premises, without first personally appearing before the room clerk or other agent of the establishment before departing and protest…
The words "credit with the drawee bank or other depositary", as used in R.S. 21:21 shall be construed to mean an arrangement or understanding with the bank or other depositary for the payment of the check, draft or order.
Whenever the owner or the agent, servant, officer or employee of the owner of any hotel, inn, boarding house or restaurant signs a complaint against any person, charging that person with a violation of R.S. 21:21, the payment by the person charged of the amount claimed to be due the hotel, inn, boarding house or restau…
Whenever the owner, or the agent, servant, officer or employee of the owner of any hotel, inn, boarding house or restaurant signs a complaint against any person, charging that person with a violation of R.S. 21:21, and such person is found outside the state of Louisiana, the owner of the hotel, inn, boarding house or r…
A. No person shall take, and no owner, manager, or person in charge of any hotel or motel shall permit any person to take any dog, cat, or pet animal into any hotel room or into the sleeping quarters or bedrooms of any hotel or motel where there is posted in a conspicuous place a sign to the effect that dogs, cats, and…
A. Any blind person, visually impaired person, person who is deaf or hard of hearing, or person with any other physical disability who is accompanied by a properly controlled dog which such person has been taught to use as a guide or for service at a qualified dog guide or service school, or any person who is qualified…
A. For the purposes of this Section, the following definitions apply: (1) "Camera" means a camcorder, motion picture camera, photographic camera of any type, or other equipment that is concealed or disguised to secretly or surreptitiously videotape, film, photograph, record, or view a person by electronic means. (2) "C…
No person shall remain in a hotel or motel, or in or on a campsite, where his term or stay has expired if the person has been given written notice of his agreed departure date and checkout time at the time he registered at the motel, hotel, or campground, and the person has been given verbal or written notice to leave…
The person and other occupants, and their personal belongings, may be removed by the appropriate lawful authority, provided the conditions of R.S. 21:75 have been met. No action for damages or otherwise shall be allowed in a court of law against the owners, operators, or managers of the hotel, motel, or campground or a…
Willful violation of any provisions of this Chapter shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars and each violation shall be a separate offense.
The legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (1) There is a direct correlation between the amount of funds spent on destination-based marketing, sales and promotion of a locality and an increase in the number of conventions, meetings, visitors, occupancy of hotels, retail sales of food, beverages and…
This Chapter is enacted for the purpose of facilitating the collection and use of private-sector-originated supplementary funds to market and promote greater New Orleans as a traveler destination and to provide for increased economic activity within its traveler economy, including an increased number of conventions, me…
For the purposes of this Chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) "Assessed hotel" means a person operating a hotel and required to pay a hotel assessment pursuant to this Chapter and, until the hotel assessment is first levied, any person operat…
A. A tourism organization, under authority of its articles or bylaws, may levy a hotel assessment of up to two and three quarters percent of the daily room charge upon its hotel members in Orleans Parish under this Chapter for destination marketing, sales, public relations and for other matters deemed by the tourism or…
A. Rate schedules setting forth room charges and any surcharges as required by this Chapter for hotels shall be posted or disclosed in all hotels and shall be delivered to the director of the department of finance of the city as required by applicable local ordinances. B. Each operator of a hotel shall comply with appl…
A. Any hotel assessment to be levied pursuant to this Chapter shall be approved by a vote of the assessed hotels in a referendum conducted in accordance with this Section. A referendum of all assessed hotels shall be called by the president of the Greater New Orleans Hotel and Lodging Association, Inc., by written noti…
This Chapter, being necessary for the welfare of the state, the city, the parish and its residents, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof.
The provisions of this Chapter are severable. It is intended that if any provision of this Chapter should be adjudged invalid or unenforceable, then such provision shall be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions of this Chapter.
The legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (1) There is a direct correlation between the amount of funds spent on destination-based marketing, sales and promotion of a locality and an increase in the number of conventions, meetings, visitors, occupancy of hotels, retail sales of food, beverages, an…