No. 39 2nd Session, 14th Legislature, Alberta 9 Elizabeth II BILL 39 A Bill to amend The Innkeepers Act RON. MR. PATRICK Printed by L. S. WALL, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent MaJeety, Edmonton, Alberta, 1961

Explanatory Note 2.

Section la, clause (

b) presently reads: "1a. In this Act, "(b) "innkeeper" means a person who is by law responsible for the goods and property of his guests and includes a keeper of a hotel, motel, auto court, cabin or other place or house who holds out that to the extent of his available accommodation he will provide lodging and food to any person who presents himself as a guest, who appears able and willing to pay a reasonahle sum for the services and facilities offered and who is in a fit state to be received;".

It was held in a recent court decision that the keeper of a motel was not an innkeeper as he did not undertake to provide food. This amendment will remove the requirement that a motel keeper has to hold himself out as offering food as well as lodging in order to be considered an innkeeper within the meaning of the Act. 3. A penalty

section is added to provide for a fine for causing or permitting a disturbance in an inn.

BILL No. 39 of 1961

An Act to amend The Innkeepers Act (Assented to , 1961) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. The Innkeepers Act, being

chapter 148 of the Revised Statutes, is hereby amended. 2.

Section la, clause (

b) is amended by striking out the words "and food". 3. T'he following new

section is added immediately after

section 9: 10.

(1) In this

section I'disturbance" means a disturb­ ance of the peace and quiet of the occupants of an inn by fighting, scre'aming, shouting, singing or otherwise causing loud noise.

(2) A person who (

a) causes a disturbance in an inn and, having been requested by the innkeeper or ris agent to desist, continues to cause or again cav~'-'s a disturbance, or (

b) having caused a disturbance, fails to leave the inn forthwith after being requested to do so by the inn­ keeper or his agent, is guilty of an offence and liable on

summary conviction to a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars and in default of payment to imprisonment for not more than seven days.

(3) An innkeeper or an agent of an innkeeper who (a.) knowing of a disturbance in the inn, fails to request the person causing the disturbance to desist, or (

b) having made such a request and in the case of a continuation or recreation of a disturbance, fails to request the person causing the disturbance to leave the inn forthwith, is guilty of an offence and liable on

summary conviction to a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars and in default of payment to imprisonment for not more than seven days. 4. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to.

No. 39 SECOND SESSION FOURTEENTH LEGISLATURE 9 ELIZABETH II 1961 BILL

An Act to amend The Innkeepers Act Received and read the First time ..................... . Second time ..................... . Third time ............................ . HON. MR. PATRICK Title: 1961 (14th, 2nd) Bill 39,

An Act to amend The Innkeepers Act