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’ written notice to the state fire marshal. The posted hotel rate shall reflect the maximum actual rate and include the maximum rate per number of actual occupants.

Terms Used In Ohio Code 3731.16

  • 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 fire marshal as meeting the requirements for transient sleeping rooms or extended stay temporary residence dwelling units, or as having features of such sleeping rooms and dwelling units within the same room, and such structure is specifically constructed, kept, used, maintained, advertised, and held out to the public to be a place where transient sleeping accommodations or temporary residence is offered for pay to persons, but such structure does not otherwise meet the definition of a transient hotel or an extended stay hotel as defined in this section. See Ohio Code 3731.01
  • state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59