Wisconsin § 97.623 Hotel safety.

Wisconsin Statutes

§ 97.623 — Hotel safety.

Wisconsin § 97.623

Ch. 97Food, lodging, and recreation

Subch.subch. III of ch. 97 SUBCHAPTER III

LODGING AND VENDING MACHINES

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Wis. Stat. § 97.623 (2026).

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623(1) (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.
623(2) (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 

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97.623
97.623(1) (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.
97.623(2) (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.

Legislative History

97.623 History 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.