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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
Every owner, lessee, keeper, or proprietor of a hotel or a lodging house who shall, when the same is prescribed by law to be done, fail, neglect or refuse:
(a) To provide for each room a rope or rope ladder, or other like appliance; or
(b) To give notice calling attention to such rope or rope ladder or appliance, and giving directions for its use; or
(c) To provide iron balconies with iron stairs; or
(d) To provide a hand or side rail to each stairway; or
(e) To provide a Mississippi Fire Prevention Code-approved electric fire detector; or
(f) To give alarm and awaken all guests and inmates of his house in case of fire therein or in close proximity thereto; or
(g) To do everything in case of fire in his power to rescue the guests or inmates of his house; or
(h) To do anything required by law to be done under the provisions of Sections 45-11-21 through 45-11-55;
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than ninety (90) days nor more than six (6) months, or fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or both such fine and imprisonment.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Mississippi Code Title 45. Public Safety and Good Order § 45-11-49 - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ms/title-45-public-safety-and-good-order/ms-code-sect-45-11-49/
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