2019 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 45 - Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Boardinghouses
Chapter 4 - South Carolina Bed And Breakfast Act
Section 45-4-20. Definitions.

As used in this chapter:

(A) "Bed and breakfast" means a residential-type lodging facility having no more than ten guestrooms where transient guests are fed and lodged for pay. This chapter does not apply to other types of transient accommodations, such as hotels, motels, motor inns, resorts, rooming houses, boarding houses, hunting lodges, or campgrounds. The phrase includes the following types of residential-type lodging facilities:

(1) "bed and breakfast" or "bed and breakfast inn", which are residential-type lodging facilities that have three to ten guestrooms and that serve only breakfast to registered guests;

(2) "home stay bed and breakfast", a residential-type lodging facility that has one to three guestrooms and that serves only breakfast to registered guests; and

(3) "country inn", a residential-type lodging facility that has three to ten guestrooms and that serves breakfast to registered guests.

(B) "Residential-type lodging facility", means a facility that:

(1) serves as both the innkeeper's residence and a place of lodging for transient guests; and

(2) is primarily residential in style with regard to the amenities provided to guests.

(C) "Guestroom" means a sleeping room, or a combination of rooms for sleeping and sitting, which includes, among other amenities:

(1) a bed or beds;

(2) a private or shared bathroom;

(3) clothes hanging and storage amenities; and

(4) a selection of furniture and lighting.

(D) "Innkeeper" means the proprietor of a bed and breakfast.

(E) "Residential kitchen" means a private-home-type kitchen in a bed and breakfast used for food service to registered guests as well as the innkeeper.

HISTORY: 1998 Act No. 300, Section 1, eff May 27, 1998.