1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to commerce; providing that guests staying in 
  1.3             their recreational vehicles at a hotel are included in 
  1.4             the provisions governing hotels and guests; amending 
  1.5             Minnesota Statutes 1998, sections 327.70, subdivisions 
  1.6             2 and 3; 327.71, subdivisions 4 and 6; and 327.72. 
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 327.70, 
  1.9   subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
  1.10     Subd. 2.  [GUEST.] "Guest" means a person who is registered 
  1.11  at a hotel and to whom a bedroom or other accommodation is 
  1.12  assigned.  The term "guest" includes members of the guest's 
  1.13  family who accompany the guest.  "Other accommodation" includes 
  1.14  space for a recreational vehicle used by a guest for sleeping or 
  1.15  housekeeping while registered at the hotel. 
  1.16     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 327.70, 
  1.17  subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
  1.18     Subd. 3.  [HOTEL.] "Hotel" means a hotel, motel, resort, 
  1.19  boarding house, bed and breakfast, furnished apartment house or 
  1.20  other building or accommodation, which is kept, used or 
  1.21  advertised as, or held out to the public to be, a place where 
  1.22  sleeping ~~or~~, housekeeping, or other accommodations are supplied 
  1.23  for pay to guests for transient occupancy.  
  1.24     Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 327.71, 
  1.25  subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
  1.26     Subd. 4.  [PROPERTY IN ASSIGNED ROOM.] Except as otherwise 
  2.1   provided in subdivision 6, no innkeeper shall be liable in an 
  2.2   amount exceeding $1,000 for the loss of or damage to personal 
  2.3   property of a guest that is contained in the bedroom registered 
  2.4   to the guest or other accommodation assigned to the guest.  
  2.5      Sec. 4.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 327.71, 
  2.6   subdivision 6, is amended to read: 
  2.7      Subd. 6.  [FAULT OR NEGLIGENCE OF INNKEEPER.] An innkeeper 
  2.8   who, intentionally or negligently, causes the loss of or damage 
  2.9   to valuables or property delivered for custody as provided in 
  2.10  subdivisions 1 and 2, to property contained in the assigned room 
  2.11  or other accommodation of a guest as provided in subdivision 4, 
  2.12  or to abandoned valuables or property not delivered to a storage 
  2.13  warehouse provided in subdivision 5, shall be liable to the 
  2.14  guest for either the actual value of the valuables or the 
  2.15  property, or the amount of the actual injury to the valuables or 
  2.16  the property.  
  2.17     Sec. 5.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 327.72, is 
  2.18  amended to read: 
  2.19     327.72 [OVERSTAYING GUESTS.] 
  2.20     A guest who intentionally continues to occupy an assigned 
  2.21  room in or other accommodation at a hotel beyond the scheduled 
  2.22  departure date without the prior written approval of the 
  2.23  innkeeper shall be deemed to be a trespasser.