GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

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HOUSE BILL 1107
Committee Substitute Favorable 5/13/91

Short Title:  Innkeeper Prerog. on Dogs.	(Public)
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April 24, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ALLOW DOGS IN HOTEL ROOMS AT THE INNKEEPER'S PREROGATIVE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 72-7 reads as rewritten:
"§ 72-7. Admittance of dogs to bedrooms.
Except as provided in Chapter 168 of the General Statutes, it is unlawful for any guest owning, keeping, or who has in his care a dog or dogs, to permit such a dog or dogs admittance to any bedroom or rooms used for sleeping purposes in any inn or hotel, provided that the innkeeper has posted a sign in a prominent place in the office of the inn or hotel stating that dogs are not permitted in the rooms of the inn or hotel, and has included the same statement in the regulations posted in every room as required by G.S. 72-6.
Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall pay a fine not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) or be imprisoned not more than 30 days."
Sec.  2.  This act is effective upon ratification.