As used in NRS 447.003 to 447.210, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 447.007 and 447.010 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 1997, 1616; A 2020, 32nd Special Session, 105)
“Health authority” means: 1. The officers and agents of the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services; or 2. The officers and agents of the local boards of health. (Added to NRS by 1997, 1616)
“Hotel” means every building or structure kept as, used as, maintained as, or held out to the public to be, a place where sleeping or rooming accommodations are furnished to the transient public, whether with or without meals, including, without limitation, a lodging house or rooming house where transient trade is solicited. [1:136:1915; 1919 RL […]
1. All bedding, bedclothes or bed covering, including mattresses, quilts, blankets, sheets, pillows or comforters, used in any hotel in this state must be kept clean and free from all filth or dirt. 2. No bedding, bedclothes or bed covering, including mattresses, quilts, blankets, sheets, pillows or comforters, shall be used which is worn out […]
Any room in any hotel in this state which is or shall be infested with vermin or bedbugs or similar things shall be thoroughly fumigated, disinfected and renovated until such vermin or bedbugs or other similar things are entirely exterminated. [3:136:1915; 1919 RL p. 2811; NCL § 3339]
Every room in any hotel in this state used for sleeping purposes must be free from any and every kind of dirt or filth of whatever nature, and the walls, floors, ceiling and doors of every such room shall be kept free from dirt. [4:136:1915; 1919 RL p. 2811; NCL § 3340]
1. Toilet rooms and bathrooms, including toilets, bathing and lavatory facilities, in hotels shall be kept clean and sanitary. 2. All other rooms, corridors, stairways, elevators, fire escapes, garages within hotels, lobbies and other portions or appurtenances of hotels used by tenants shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition, free of fire hazards […]
It is unlawful for any person to use, or to permit another person to use, any of the following portions of a hotel for living or sleeping purposes: 1. Any kitchen, cellar, hallway, water closet, bath, shower compartment, or slop-sink room. 2. Any other room or place which does not comply with the provisions of […]
Every room in any hotel used for sleeping purposes shall have devices, such as a window or transom, so constructed as to allow for the proper and a sufficient amount of ventilation in each such room, except that buildings more than one story in height, constructed after July 1, 1957, shall have no transoms or […]
Windows and outside doors shall be screened against flies and mosquitoes. [5a:136:1915; added 1945, 384; 1943 NCL § 3341a]
No room for sleeping purposes shall have less than 500 cubic feet of air space for each occupant. The floor area of each sleeping room must be at least 80 square feet and at least 7 feet in width. All rooms must have a ceiling height of at least 8 feet. [5b:136:1915; added 1945, 384; […]
1. Every bed kept or used in any hotel in this state for the accommodation of any person or guest must be provided with a sufficient supply of clean bedding. 2. Clean sheets and pillow slips shall be supplied for each bed in a hotel as often as the bed is assigned to a different […]
Whenever any room in any hotel shall have been occupied by any person having a contagious or infectious disease, the room shall be thoroughly fumigated under the direction of the health authority, and all bedding therein thoroughly disinfected before the room shall be occupied by any other person. In any event, such room shall not […]
1. In every hotel in existence prior to October 1, 1945, at least one bathtub or shower shall be installed in a separate compartment on a public hallway or court for every 20, or fractional part of 20, guestrooms on the same floor as the hallway or court which are not provided with private baths. […]
1. Every hotel within this state having a public washstand or washbowl, where different persons gather to wash themselves, must keep a sufficient supply of clean, individual towels for the use of such persons within easy access of or to such persons and in plain sight and view. 2. Nothing in this section shall be […]
1. In every hotel or any other type of transient lodging establishment without private toilets there shall be at least one toilet for each sex in a separate compartment on a public hallway or court and such toilets shall be plainly indicated by signs. If the building is designed to accommodate more than 15 persons […]
1. Each owner, lessor, lessee or operator of a public accommodation shall mark each entrance to a corridor in the public accommodation which leads to a toilet facility with a sign which: (a) Conforms to the requirements related to signage contained in §§ 4.30 et seq. of the Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines for […]
1. In every hotel built after July 1, 1957, any room in which a water closet, bathtub or shower is installed must be ventilated to the outside air by means of a window of at least 3 square feet, unless satisfactory mechanical ventilation is provided. 2. In hotels built prior to July 1, 1957, without […]
1. In every hotel and any other type of transient lodging establishment, the heating and ventilating systems must be constructed, installed and operated so as to reduce to a minimum the possibilities of fire, explosion, asphyxiation or gas poisoning. 2. Faultily constructed or installed heating and ventilating systems in hotels and other types of transient […]
1. The health authority may exempt any hotel built prior to October 1, 1945, from having the number of water closets, bathtubs or showers required by NRS 447.003 to 447.210, inclusive, for the following reason: The exemption will not result in detriment to the health of the occupants or to the sanitation of the building. […]
