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| To amend section 3731.12 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
| require hotels to provide a bed that is suitable | 2 |
| for use with a portable lift in any room that the | 3 |
| hotel holds out to be a sleeping room or suite | 4 |
| that is accessible to the physically disabled and | 5 |
| to direct the state fire marshal to adopt by rule | 6 |
| a description of the access and clearance needed | 7 |
| for a bed to comply with the requirement. | 8 |
| Section 1. That section 3731.12 of the Revised Code be | 9 |
| amended to read as follows: | 10 |
| Sec. 3731.12. (A) Every transient hotel and extended stay | 11 |
| hotel shall provide in each sleeping room or extended stay | 12 |
| temporary residence a bed, bunk, cot, or other furniture designed | 13 |
| for sleeping for each guest occupying such accommodations. Every | 14 |
| hotel shall provide each bed, bunk, cot, or other sleeping place | 15 |
| for the use of transient or extended stay guests with pillow slips | 16 |
| and under and top sheets. All sheets and pillow slips used on any | 17 |
| furniture designed for sleeping shall be white or off-white in | 18 |
| color and shall be washed daily if requested by a guest, and all | 19 |
| such sheets and pillow slips, after being used by one guest, shall | 20 |
| be washed before being used by another guest. | 21 |
| (B) All extended stay hotels shall provide furniture adequate | 22 |
| for living, eating, cooking, sanitation, and sleeping within each | 23 |
| dwelling unit. | 24 |
| (C) Except as otherwise specified in division (D) of this | 25 |
| section, all residential hotels may, but are not required to, | 26 |
| provide furniture adequate for living, eating, cooking, | 27 |
| sanitation, and sleeping within each dwelling unit. | 28 |
| (D) All residential hotels, upon request of the dwelling unit | 29 |
| guest, shall provide furniture adequate for living, eating, | 30 |
| cooking, sanitation, and sleeping within each dwelling unit. | 31 |
| Residential hotels may charge appropriate additional fees for the | 32 |
| provision of any furniture pursuant to this section. | 33 |
| (E) Every hotel shall provide in any room the hotel holds out | 34 |
| as an accessible sleeping room or suite, at least one bed of a | 35 |
| type that is suitable for use with a portable lift that the guest | 36 |
| provides. The fire marshal shall adopt by rule a description of | 37 |
| the access to the bed and amount of clearance between the floor | 38 |
| and the bottom of the bed that is needed in order for a bed to | 39 |
| comply with the requirements of this division. | 40 |
| Section 2. That existing section 3731.12 of the Revised Code | 41 |
| is hereby repealed. | 42 |