Section 34-15-9

Failure to comply with rules and regulations.

The State Hotel Inspector, upon ascertaining by inspection or otherwise that any hotel is being operated contrary to the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health, shall notify the owner, manager, agent or person in charge of such hotel, in writing, in what respect it fails to comply with said regulations and require such person, within a reasonable time to be fixed by the said State Hotel Inspector, to do, or cause to be done, the things necessary to make it comply with said regulations, whereupon such owner, manager, agent or person in charge of such hotel shall forthwith comply with such requirements. Any owner, manager or person in charge of a hotel who shall willfully fail or neglect to comply with any of the provisions of said rules and regulations of the State Board of Health, after notice as aforesaid, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than $10.00 nor more than $50.00, and every day that such hotel is operated in violation of said rules and regulations shall constitute a separate offense.

(Acts 1919, No. 597, p. 845; Code 1923, §4469; Acts 1935, No. 444, p. 926; Code 1940, T. 24, §5; Acts 1959, No. 412, p. 1046.)