Minnesota § 327.70 DEFINITIONS

Minnesota Statutes

§ 327.70 — DEFINITIONS

Minnesota § 327.70

PartTRADE REGULATIONS, CONSUMER PROTECTION

Ch. 327HOTELS, MOTELS, RESORTS, AND MANUFACTURED HOMES

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Subdivision 1.Terms.
For the purposes of sections327.70to327.76, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them.

Subd. 2.Guest.
"Guest" means a person who is registered at a hotel and to whom a bedroom is assigned. The term "guest" includes members of the guest's family who accompany the guest.

Subd. 3.Hotel.
"Hotel" means a hotel, motel, resort, boarding house, bed and breakfast, furnished apartment house or other building, which is kept, used or advertised as, or held out to the public to be, a place where sleeping or housekeeping accommodations are supplied for pay to guests for transient occupancy.

Subd. 4.Innkeeper.
"Innkeeper" means an owner or operator of a hotel.

Subd. 5.Transient occupancy.
"Transient occupancy" means occupancy when it is the intention of the 

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Subdivision 1.Terms.
For the purposes of sections327.70to327.76, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them.

Subd. 2.Guest.
"Guest" means a person who is registered at a hotel and to whom a bedroom is assigned. The term "guest" includes members of the guest's family who accompany the guest.

Subd. 3.Hotel.
"Hotel" means a hotel, motel, resort, boarding house, bed and breakfast, furnished apartment house or other building, which is kept, used or advertised as, or held out to the public to be, a place where sleeping or housekeeping accommodations are supplied for pay to guests for transient occupancy.

Subd. 4.Innkeeper.
"Innkeeper" means an owner or operator of a hotel.

Subd. 5.Transient occupancy.
"Transient occupancy" means occupancy when it is the intention of the parties that the occupancy will be temporary. There is a rebuttable presumption that, if the unit occupied is the sole residence of the guest, the occupancy is not transient. There is a rebuttable presumption that, if the unit occupied is not the sole residence of the guest, the occupancy is transient.

Subd. 6.Valuables.
"Valuables" includes money, bank notes, bonds, precious stones, jewelry, ornaments, watches, securities, transportation tickets, photographic cameras, checks, drafts, and other negotiable instruments, business papers, documents, and other papers, and other articles of value.