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2025 Kentucky Revised Statutes
Chapter 219 - Hotel, food service, and mobile home and recreational vehicle park regulations
219.085 Human trafficking hotline telephone number to be prominently displayed in specified locations in each hotel -- Penalties.

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KY Rev Stat § 219.085 (2025)
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219.085 Human trafficking hotline telephone number to be prominently displayed in specified locations in each hotel -- Penalties. (1) (2) (3) (4) As used in this section, "hotel" means every establishment kept, used, maintained, advertised, or held out to the public to be a place where sleeping accommodations are offered to guests, and includes motels. Every hotel shall post: (a) In its lobby, stairwells, elevators, or on or beside exit doors, a printed sign in English and Spanish at least eight and one-half (8-1/2) by eleven (11) inches in size, with letters in at least sixteen (16) point font; and (b) In all of its publicly accessible restrooms, either: 1. A printed sign in English and Spanish at least eight and one-half (8-1/2) by eleven (11) inches in size, with letters in at least sixteen (16) point font; or 2. A printed transparent static window cling in English and Spanish at least three (3) inches by three (3) inches in size, with letters in at least ten (10) point font; displaying the current telephone hotline number of the National Human Trafficking Resource Center or any federally funded successor entity. The sign or window cling shall be: (a) Created using gender-neutral language supplied by the Office of the Attorney General, the National Human Trafficking Hotline, or the United States Department of Homeland Security's Blue Campaign; and (b) Posted in a prominent place easily seen by patrons. A hotel in violation of this section shall be subject to a warning on the first violation and a fine not to exceed fifty dollars ($50) for each subsequent violation. Each day of noncompliance with this section shall constitute a separate violation. Moneys collected under this subsection shall be paid to the human trafficking victims fund. Effective: July 15, 2024 History: Created 2024 Ky. Acts ch. 61, sec. 5, effective July 15, 2024.
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