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Home » US Law » 2022 Iowa Code » Title XV - JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES » Chapter 671 - LIABILITY OF HOTELKEEPERS AND STEAMBOAT OWNERS

Section 671.1 – Liability for precious articles — safe deposit.

671.1 Liability for precious articles — safe deposit. No keeper of any hotel, inn, or eating house, nor the owner of any steamboat, shall be liable to any guest for more than one hundred dollars for the loss of or injury to any money, jewelry, articles of gold or silver manufacture, precious stones, personal ornaments, […]

Section 671.2 – Exception.

671.2 Exception. 1. The limited liability provided in section 671.1 shall not apply where: a. A guest has offered to deliver valuables to the keeper or owner for custody in such metal safe or vault, and b. The keeper or owner has omitted or refused to receive and deposit the valuables in the safe or […]

Section 671.3 – Nature of liability.

671.3 Nature of liability. The liability of such keeper or owner for loss of or injury to personal property placed by any guest in the keeper’s or owner’s care, other than that described in sections 671.1 and 671.2, shall be that of a depository for hire. [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1687; C46, 50, 54, […]

Section 671.4 – Limitation on liability.

671.4 Limitation on liability. In no event shall the liability of such keeper or owner exceed the following amounts: 1. For each trunk and its contents, two hundred fifty dollars. 2. For each valise and its contents, one hundred fifty dollars. 3. For each box, bundle, or package and its contents, fifty dollars. 4. For […]

Section 671.5 – Leaving baggage after registering off.

671.5 Leaving baggage after registering off. In case baggage or other personal property of a guest has remained in any hotel, inn, eating house, or steamboat forty-eight hours after the guest has paid the guest’s bill and registered off and the relation of keeper and guest has ceased, such keeper or owner may hold such […]

Section 671.6 – Forwarding baggage.

671.6 Forwarding baggage. In case baggage or other property has been forwarded to any hotel, inn, eating house, or steamboat, and the owner of such baggage or property does not within forty-eight hours become a guest, such keeper or owner may hold such baggage or property at the risk of the owner. [C24, 27, 31, […]

Section 671.7 – Nonliability — conveyance.

671.7 Nonliability — conveyance. No keeper or owner of any hotel, inn or eating house shall be liable by reason of the keeper’s or owner’s liability or responsibility as innkeeper to any guest for the loss of or damage to the automobile or other conveyance of such guest left in any garage not personally owned […]

Section 671.8 – Liability — conveyance.

671.8 Liability — conveyance. The liability of the keeper or owner of any hotel, inn or eating house, for the loss of or damage to the conveyance of any guest or the personal property of such guest left in such conveyance, where said hotel, inn or eating house keeper, is the owner and operator of […]