2017 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 36 HOTELS, LODGINGHOUSES AND RESTAURANTS
Article 5 FOOD SERVICE AND LODGING ESTABLISHMENTS
36-517 Lodging establishments; smoke detectors for deaf and hearing impaired.
36-517. Lodging establishments; smoke detectors for deaf and hearing impaired. Every licensed lodging establishment designated as a hotel shall provide at no additional charge to deaf and hearing impaired guests, upon request of such guests, portable smoke detectors of the type suitable for providing visual warning to such guests, or a room equipped with fixed visual warning smoke detectors or a ground floor guest room accessible to the out-of-doors. Each licensed lodging establishment designated as a hotel shall have available for such guests not less than one portable visual warning smoke detector, or one room equipped with a fixed visual warning smoke detector or one ground floor guest room accessible to the out-of-doors for each 50 guest rooms of such lodging establishment, except that no such lodging establishment designated as a hotel shall be required to have more than a total of six portable visual warning smoke detectors, or six rooms equipped with fixed visual warning smoke detectors or six ground floor guest rooms accessible to the out-of-doors nor shall any such lodging establishment have less than one such smoke detector, or one room equipped with a fixed visual warning smoke detector or one ground floor guest room accessible to the out-of-doors.
History: L. 1988, ch. 134, § 1; L. 2012, ch. 145, § 11; July 1.
