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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
HOUSE BILL 1748 By: Crosswhite Hader
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to public health and safety; amending
63 O.S. 2011, Section 1 -1201, which relates to
hotels; requiring the Stat e Board of Health to
promulgate certain rules regarding tornado safety;
and providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 63 O.S. 2011, Section 1 -1201, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 1-1201. (a) A. It shall be unlawful for any person to
operate or maintain a hotel unless he or she shall have first
obtained, and holds, a license issued for such purpose by the State
Commissioner of Health. Unless other wise provided by rule by the
State Board of Health, each such license shall expire on the 30th
day of June next following its issuance, and the Commissioner shall
charge and collect therefor an annual fee to be fixed by the Board
of Health. The term "hotel" as used in this section shall mean and
include any hotel, motel, tourist court, apartment house, rooming
house, or other place where sleeping accommodations are furnished,
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or offered, for pay for transient guests, if four or more rooms are
available therein for transient guests. This section shall apply to
the operation of a hotel by a state board.
(b) B. The State Board of Health may adopt reasonable
standards, rules and regulations for hotels as to the following:
buildings and appurtenances thereto, including plumbing, ventilation
and lighting; construction, cleanliness and bactericidal treatment
of equipment and utensils; cleanliness and hygiene of personnel;
toilet facilities; disposal of wastes; water supply; and any other
items deemed necessary to safeguard the health, comfort and safety
of guests accommodated therein . The Board shall promulgate rules
requiring hotels to conspicuously post tornado safety information in
every room and common area in the same manner as fire evacuation
information. The tornado safety information shall be designed by
the Board and posted immediately by all hotels under new
construction and by existing hotels as those hotels ' safety
information is updated. At a minimum, the tornado safety
information shall list the co unty the hotel is in, the hotel 's
location on a state map, information regarding what a hotel guest
should do to stay safe during a tornado and, if applicable, the day
and time of community tornado siren testing .
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 202 1.
58-1-6116 AB 12/09/20