CHAPTER 185

S.P. 313 - L.D. 905

An Act To Modernize the Innkeeping Statutes

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 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 3 times the total amount of the bill collected minus the rate shown in the posted schedule.

Sec. 2. 30-A MRSA §3821, sub-§1, 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 any 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 or occupying a room or rooms in the hotel or lodging house shall 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