130th Ohio General Assembly
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Sub. S. B. No. 305  As Passed by the House
As Passed by the House

126th General Assembly
Regular Session
2005-2006
Sub. S. B. No. 305


Senators Stivers, Goodman, Dann, Kearney, Wachtmann 

Representatives McGregor, J., Book, Combs, Domenick, Evans, C., Flowers, Patton, T., Schaffer, Wagoner, Yuko 



A BILL
To amend sections 3731.01, 3731.02, 3731.09, 3731.12, and 3781.03 and to enact sections 3731.04, 3737.831, and 3781.112 of the Revised Code to modify requirements applied to differing types of hotels, to require the State Fire Code to include a provision directing the Fire Marshal to issue permits for temporary membrane structures, tents, and canopies located on state property or used for an event sponsored by a state agency, unless the Fire Marshal directs that the permit be obtained from a local fire code official, to clarify the authority of local governing officials concerning sewerage systems, and to allow certain medical facilities to use delayed-egress doors and electronic doors.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 3731.01, 3731.02, 3731.09, 3731.12, and 3781.03 be amended and sections 3731.04, 3737.831, and 3781.112 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 3731.01. (A) As used in sections 3731.01 to 3731.21 of the Revised Code this chapter:
(1) "Hotel" means either of the following:
(a) Any a transient hotel, extended stay hotel, or residential hotel.
"Hotel" includes any structure consisting of one or more buildings containing any combination of more than five guestrooms that are each approved by the building code official having jurisdiction and the fire marshal as meeting the requirements for transient sleeping rooms or extended stay temporary residence dwelling units, or as having features of such sleeping rooms and dwelling units within the same room, and such structure is specifically constructed, kept, used, maintained, advertised, and held out to the public to be a place where transient sleeping accommodations or temporary residence is offered for pay to persons, but such structure does not otherwise meet the definition of a transient hotel or an extended stay hotel as defined in this section. "Hotel" does not include agricultural labor camps, apartment houses, apartments or other similar places of permanent personal residence, lodging houses, rooming houses, or hospital or college dormitories.
(2) "Transient hotel" means any structure consisting of one or more buildings, with more than five sleeping rooms, that is specifically constructed, kept, used, maintained, advertised, or held out to the public to be a place where sleeping accommodations are offered for pay to transient guests for a period of thirty days or less, including, but not limited to, such a structure denoted as a hotel, motel, motor hotel, lodge, motor lodge, bed and breakfast, or inn;
(b) Any.
(3) "Extended stay hotel" means any structure consisting of one or more buildings, with more than five sleeping rooms dwelling units with provisions for living, eating, cooking, sanitation, and sleeping, that is specifically constructed, kept, used, maintained, advertised, and held out to the public to be a place where temporary residence is offered for pay to persons, including, but not limited to, an extended stay hotel or extended stay motel that is specifically constructed, and approved by the building official having jurisdiction over it and by the fire marshal, for extended stay temporary residence by persons, and that contains six or more dwelling units with provision for living, eating, cooking, sanitation, and sleeping.
"Hotel" does not include agricultural labor camps, apartment houses, lodging houses, rooming houses, or hospital or college dormitories.
(2) for a minimum stay of more than thirty days and a maximum stay of one year within the dwelling units at the structure, that is approved pursuant to a valid certificate of occupancy issued by the building official having jurisdiction as having all of the required dwelling unit features, and for which such valid certificate of occupancy indicates the specific rooms within the structure that can be used as dwelling units, and that is approved by the fire marshal for extended stay temporary residence purposes.
(4) "Residential hotel" means any structure or structures consisting of one or more buildings, with more than five dwelling units, that are specifically constructed and approved through a valid certificate of occupancy issued by the building official having jurisdiction, as having both dwelling unit features for non-transient residence purposes and all of the transient residential occupancy features of a transient hotel in accordance with the residential group R-1 use and occupancy classification adopted by the board of building standards pursuant to Chapter 3781. of the Revised Code, and that are kept, used, maintained, advertised, operated as, or held out to the public to be a place where non-transient dwelling units are offered for pay to persons for a minimum stay of more than thirty days.
(5) "Temporary residence" means a dwelling unit accommodation room within a hotel that is used by its occupants for a minimum period of thirty-one days and a maximum period of one year but is not used as the permanent or principal residence of its occupants.
(6) "Transient" means not more than thirty days.
(7) "Dwelling unit" means an accommodation room within a hotel that contains independent provisions for living, eating, cooking, sleeping, and sanitation.
(8) "SRO facility" means a facility with more than five sleeping rooms that is kept, used, maintained, advertised, or held out to the public as a place where sleeping rooms are offered on a single room occupancy (SRO) basis and that is intended for use as a primary residence for residential guests for a period of more than thirty days.
"SRO facility" does not include agricultural labor camps, apartment houses, lodging houses, rooming houses, or hospital or college dormitories.
(3)(9) "Single room occupancy (SRO) basis" means one occupant per room.
(B) This chapter does not apply to apartment buildings and other structures in which all of the units are residential premises.
Sec. 3731.02.  (A) The fire marshal shall make such rules as are necessary to carry out sections 3731.01 to 3731.21 of the Revised Code this chapter. The fire marshal and the assistant fire marshal's assistants marshals shall enforce such sections this chapter.
(B) Except as otherwise provided in this division, the board of building standards shall adopt, pursuant to section 3781.10 of the Revised Code, rules that specify that the building code standards for SRO facilities shall be use group R-2. Any facility operating prior to the effective date of this amendment October 16, 1996, in the nature of an SRO facility that met the building code standards for an SRO facility prior to that date, whether previously licensed as a hotel or not, and after the effective date of this amendment October 16, 1996, licensed as an SRO facility under section 3731.03 of the Revised Code, shall be permitted under the rules to have a building code standard of either use group R-1 or use group R-2 if the facility meets the requirements for those use groups as specified in the Ohio building code adopted pursuant to section 3781.10 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3731.04. (A) Transient hotels may offer extended stay temporary residence guest accommodations within any dwelling units or transient sleeping room with dwelling unit features within the structure if such units or sleeping rooms are specifically constructed and approved as also being dwelling units with provisions for living, eating, cooking, sanitation, and sleeping. A transient or extended stay guestroom shall be approved through a valid certificate of occupancy issued by the building official having jurisdiction. The certificate shall indicate the specific guestrooms within the structure that can be used as dwelling units and such dwelling units shall be approved by the fire marshal for extended stay temporary residence purposes.
(B) Extended stay hotels may offer transient guest accommodations for less than thirty days within any dwelling units or other rooms within the structure if such dwelling units or rooms are specifically constructed and approved as also being transient sleeping rooms. Such transient sleeping rooms shall be approved, through a valid certificate of occupancy issued by the building official having jurisdiction, that indicates the specific rooms within the structure that can be used as transient sleeping rooms and such transient sleeping rooms shall be approved by the fire marshal for transient stay purposes.
(C) All of the requirements for the construction and operation of transient hotels and extended stay hotels, including the provisions applicable to transient sleeping rooms and temporary residence dwelling units, apply to hotels as defined in division (A)(1) of section 3731.01 of the Revised Code with a total number of guestrooms, including transient sleeping rooms or extended stay dwelling units, that is greater than five, but do not apply to residential hotels as defined in division (A)(4) of that section.
Sec. 3731.09.  In every transient hotel and extended stay hotel and SRO facility in which the person, firm, or corporation operating it is required to have a license, the premises shall be kept in a sanitary condition.
Sec. 3731.12.  (A) Every transient hotel and extended stay hotel shall provide in each sleeping room or extended stay temporary residence a bed, bunk, cot, or other furniture designed for sleeping for each guest occupying such accommodations. Every hotel shall provide each bed, bunk, cot, or other sleeping place for the use of transient or extended stay guests with pillow slips and under and top sheets. Such top sheets shall be at least ninety inches in length. Such All sheets and pillow slips used on any furniture designed for sleeping shall be made of white cotton or linen off-white in color and shall be washed daily if requested by a guest, and all such sheets and pillow slips, after being used by one guest, shall be washed before being used by another guest.
(B) All extended stay hotels shall provide furniture adequate for living, eating, cooking, sanitation, and sleeping within each dwelling unit.
(C) Except as otherwise specified in division (D) of this section, all residential hotels may, but are not required to, provide furniture adequate for living, eating, cooking, sanitation, and sleeping within each dwelling unit.
(D) All residential hotels, upon request of the dwelling unit guest, shall provide furniture adequate for living, eating, cooking, sanitation, and sleeping within each dwelling unit. Residential hotels may charge appropriate additional fees for the provision of any furniture pursuant to this section.
Sec. 3737.831. The state fire code adopted pursuant to sections 3737.82 and 3737.83 of the Revised Code shall contain a provision directing the fire marshal to issue any permit that is required for any temporary membrane structure, tent, or canopy located on state-owned property or used for an event sponsored by a state agency, unless the fire marshal directs the person seeking the permit to obtain the permit from the appropriate local fire code official.
Sec. 3781.03. (A) The fire marshal or the fire chief of a municipal corporation that has a fire department or the fire chief of a township that has a fire department shall enforce the provisions of Chapters 3781. and 3791. of the Revised Code that relate to fire prevention.
(B) The superintendent of the division of industrial compliance, the building inspector, or commissioner of buildings in a municipal corporation, county, or township in which the building department is certified by the board of building standards under section 3781.10 of the Revised Code shall enforce in the jurisdiction of each entity all the provisions in those chapters and any rules adopted pursuant to those chapters that relate to the construction, arrangement, and erection of all buildings or parts of buildings, as defined in section 3781.06 of the Revised Code, including the sanitary condition of those buildings in relation to heating and ventilation.
(C) The division of industrial compliance in the department of commerce, the boards of health of health districts, and the certified departments of building inspection of municipal corporations, subject to Chapter 3703. of the Revised Code, shall enforce Chapters 3781. and 3791. of the Revised Code and the rules adopted pursuant to those chapters that relate to plumbing. Building drains are considered plumbing for the purposes of enforcement of those chapters.
(D)(1) The In accordance with Chapter 3703. of the Revised Code, the department of the city engineer, in cities having such departments, the boards of health of health districts, or the sewer purveyor, as appropriate, shall have complete authority to supervise and regulate the entire sewerage and drainage system of the city in the jurisdiction in which it is exercising the authority described in this division, including the house drain and the house sewer building sewer and all laterals draining into the street sewers.
(2) The In accordance with Chapter 3703. of the Revised Code, the department of the city engineer, the boards of health of health districts, or the sewer purveyor, as appropriate, shall control and supervise the installation and construction of all drains and sewers that become a part of the sewerage system of the city and shall issue all the necessary permits and licenses for the construction and installation of all house drains and house building sewers and of all other lateral drains that empty into the main sewers. The department of the city engineer, the boards of health of health districts, and the sewer purveyor, as appropriate, shall keep a permanent record of the installation and location of every drain and sewer of the drainage and sewerage system of the city jurisdiction in which it has exercised the authority described in this division.
(E) This section does not exempt any officer or department from the obligation to enforce Chapters 3781. and 3791. of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3781.112. (A) As used in this section, "secured facility" means any of the following:
(1) A maternity boardinghouse or lying-in hospital licensed under section 3711.02 of the Revised Code;
(2) A pediatric intensive care unit subject to rules adopted by the director of health pursuant to section 3702.11 of the Revised Code;
(3) A children's hospital, as defined in section 3702.51 of the Revised Code;
(4) A hospital that is licensed under section 5119.20 of the Revised Code to receive mentally ill persons;
(5) The portion of a nursing home licensed under section 3721.02 of the Revised Code or in accordance with section 3721.09 of the Revised Code in which specialized care is provided to residents of the nursing home who have physical or mental conditions that require a resident to be restricted in the resident's freedom of movement for the health and safety of the resident, the staff attending the resident, or the general public.
(B) A secured facility may take reasonable steps in accordance with rules the board of building standards adopts under division (A) of section 3781.10 of the Revised Code and in accordance with the state fire code the fire marshal adopts under section 3737.82 of the Revised Code, to deny egress to confine and protect patients or residents of the secured facility who are not capable of self-preservation. A secured facility that wishes to deny egress to those patients or residents may use delayed-egress doors and electronically coded doors to deny egress, on the condition that those doors are installed and used in accordance with rules the board of building standards adopts under division (A) of section 3781.10 of the Revised Code and in accordance with the state fire code the fire marshal adopts under section 3737.82 of the Revised Code. A secured facility also may install controlled-egress locks, in compliance with rules the board of building standards adopts under division (A) section 3781.10 of the Revised Code and in compliance with the state fire code the fire marshal adopts under section 3737.82 of the Revised Code, in areas of the secured facility where patients or residents who have physical or mental conditions that would endanger the patients or residents, the staff attending the patients or residents, or the general public if those patients or residents are not restricted in their freedom of movement. A secured facility that uses delayed-egress doors and electronically coded doors, controlled-egress locks, or both, shall do both of the following:
(1) Provide continuous, twenty-four-hour custodial care to the patients or residents of the facility;
(2) Establish a system to evacuate patients or residents in the event of fire or other emergency.
Section 2. That existing sections 3731.01, 3731.02, 3731.09, 3731.12, and 3781.03 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed.
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