306.020 Limited liability when safe is provided.
(1)
(2)
The proprietor of any hotel may provide a safe in a convenient place, for the
safekeeping of money, jewelry, furs, securities or other valuable papers or other
valuable property of small compass belonging to the guests, and post a copy of this
section in a public and conspicuous place and manner in the office, public rooms
and public parlors of the hotel, notifying the guests that a safe is provided in which
such property may be deposited. Then, if the guests neglect to deliver such property
to the person in charge of the office for deposit in the safe, the proprietor shall not
be liable for any loss of such property sustained by the guests by negligence of the
proprietor or hotel employees, or by fire, theft, burglary or any other cause.
However, no proprietor of any hotel shall be obligated to receive property on
deposit for safekeeping exceeding three hundred dollars (0) in value. If guests
deliver property of a greater value to the person in charge of the office for deposit in
the safe, the proprietor shall not be liable for the loss or damage thereof sustained in
any sum exceeding three hundred dollars (0), notwithstanding the property may
be of greater value, unless the guests make a special agreement in writing with the
proprietor.
Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky.
Stat. sec. 2176a.
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