Chap. 318.—An ACT to require the owners or proprietors of hotels, inns, houses
of private entertainment, and other houses kept for the lodging and entertain-
ment of the public, where gas ig used for the purposes of iJlumination or heat-
ing, to post notices containing a warning and directions for the use of the same
for the guidance of their guests.

Became a law, without the governor’s signature, May 21, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That every owner
or proprietor of anv hotel, inn, house of private entertainment, or other
house, licensed and kept for the lodging and entertainment of the public
in this State, wherein gas is used for the purpose of illuminating or heat-
ing the bed rooms oceupied by the guests at such hotel, inn, house of pri-

vate entertainment, or other house kept for said purpose of lodging and
entertainment, shall post conspicuously at some place on the walls of each
of such bed rooms a notice in large type, calling attention to the danger
therefrom, and giving directions as to how the same is to be lighted and
extinguished.

2. Any owner, proprietor, or person conducting such hotel, inn, house
of private entertainment, or other house licensed and kept for the lodging
and entertainment of the public in this State, who shall fail to post such
notices as hereinbefore required, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor ,
and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than ten nor more
than one hundred dollars.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.