2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 19a-107. (Formerly Sec. 19-63). Towels in hotels and public lavatories.
Sec. 19a-107. (Formerly Sec. 19-63). Towels in hotels and public lavatories.
All towels provided by any hotel, for the use of guests therein, or by any public lavatory
shall be individual towels, or toweling may be provided so arranged in locked cabinets
that each user may pull out a clean portion and the used portion shall be automatically
drawn into a separate compartment and mechanically locked to prevent withdrawal for
reuse. Any such towel or toweling which has been used and discarded by an individual
shall not be used again until thoroughly washed and dried. Each guest occupying a
room in any hotel shall be furnished with such towels in such room; and, in the public
washroom, if any, in such hotel, there shall be kept at all times, in sight of, and easy of
access to, guests a sufficient supply of individual towels or toweling so arranged in
locked cabinets that each user may pull out a clean portion and the used portion shall
be automatically drawn into a separate compartment and mechanically locked to prevent
withdrawal for reuse. The owner, manager, agent or person in charge of any hotel or
public lavatory who fails to comply with any of the provisions hereof shall be fined not
less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense.
History: Sec. 19-63 transferred to Sec. 19a-107 in 1983.
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