97.623 Hotel safety.
(1) Every hotel with sleeping accommodations with more than 12 bedrooms above the first story shall, between the hours of 12 midnight and 6 a.m. provide a system of security personnel patrol, or of mechanical and electrical devices, or both, adequate, according to standards established by the department of safety and professional services, to warn all guests and employees in time to permit their evacuation in case of fire.
(2) Every hotel shall offer to every guest, at the time of registration for accommodation and of making a reservation for accommodation, an opportunity to identify himself or herself as a person needing assistance in an emergency because of a physical condition and shall keep a record at the registration desk of where each person so identified is lodged. No hotel may lodge any person so identified in areas other than those designated by the local fire department as safe for persons so identified, based on the capabilities of apparatus normally available to the fire company or companies assigned the first alarm. A person who does not identify himself or herself as permitted in this subsection may be lodged in the same manner as any other guest. Violation of this subsection shall be punished by a forfeiture of not more than $50 for the first violation and not more than $100 for each subsequent violation.
History: 1975 c. 112, 199; 1975 c. 413 s. 13; Stats. 1975 s. 50.56; 1985 a. 135; 1993 a. 27 s. 76; Stats. 1993 s. 254.73; 1995 a. 27 ss. 6343, 9116 (5); 2011 a. 32; 2015 a. 55 s. 4090; 2015 Stats. s. 97.623.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 97 - Food, lodging, and recreation.
97.02 - Standards; adulterated food.
97.03 - Standards; misbranding.
97.13 - Sale of fish flour regulated.
97.17 - Buttermaker and cheesemaker license.
97.175 - Butter and cheese grader license requirements.
97.176 - Butter; grading; label.
97.177 - Cheese; grading; labeling.
97.18 - Oleomargarine regulations.
97.21 - Milk haulers and milk distributors.
97.23 - Drug residues in milk.
97.24 - Milk and milk products.
97.25 - Use of synthetic bovine growth hormone; labeling of dairy products.
97.29 - Food processing plants.
97.30 - Retail food establishments.
97.305 - Restaurants serving fish.
97.307 - Average annual surveys.
97.32 - Special dairy and food inspectors.
97.33 - Certificate of food protection practices.
97.34 - Bottled drinking water and soda water beverage; standards; sampling and analysis.
97.41 - Retail food: agent status for local health departments.
97.42 - Compulsory inspection of livestock or poultry, and meat or poultry products.
97.43 - Meat from dead or diseased animals.
97.44 - Identification of meat for animal feed; registration and records of buyers.
97.57 - Planted or cultivated rice.
97.60 - Coordination; certification.
97.605 - Lodging and vending licenses.
97.607 - Pre-licensing inspection.
97.61 - Vending machine commissary outside the state.
97.615 - Agent status for local health departments.
97.617 - Application; lodging and vending.
97.62 - Health and safety; standard.
97.625 - Powers of the department and local health departments.
97.627 - Causing fires by tobacco smoking.
97.633 - Hotelkeeper's liability.
97.634 - Hotelkeeper's liability for baggage; limitation.
97.635 - Liability of hotelkeeper for loss of property by fire or theft; owner's risk.
97.638 - Hotel rates posted; rate charges; special rates.
97.67 - Recreational licenses and fees.
97.70 - Authority of department of safety and professional services.