New Jersey Statutes 29:2-3. Liability for proprietor for loss of guests’ personal property, exceptions, limitation
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 29:2-3
- Guest: means guests of or travelers in a hotel as defined in subsection a. See New Jersey Statutes 29:2-1
- Hotel: means any hotel, inn, boarding house, motel or other establishment whose proprietor offers and accepts payment for rooms, sleeping accommodations or board and lodging and retains the right of access to, and control of, the premises which are let. See New Jersey Statutes 29:2-1
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Personal property: includes goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and effects, evidences of debt, choses in action and all written instruments by which any right to, interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, property or any debt or financial obligation is created, acknowledged, evidenced, transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and everything except real property as herein defined which may be the subject of ownership. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
29:2-3. a. No proprietor of any hotel shall be liable in any sum to any guest of the hotel for the loss of personal property not mentioned in R.S.29:2-2, where it shall appear that the loss occurred without the fault or negligence of the proprietor.
b. No proprietor shall be liable in any sum for the loss of any personal property belonging to a guest not in a room or rooms assigned to the guest, unless the property shall be specially intrusted to the care and custody of the proprietor or his duly authorized agent, and if the property shall be so specially intrusted, the proprietor shall not be liable for its loss in any sum exceeding $1,500; and the burden shall be on the guest to prove the actual amount of loss.
Amended 1992,c.14,s.3.