3731.03 License required for hotel or SRO facility.

(A) Every person in the business of conducting a hotel or an SRO facility shall procure a license for each hotel or SRO facility conducted or proposed to be conducted. No hotel or SRO facility shall be maintained, conducted, or advertised without a license, and all such licenses shall expire on the last day of December of each year and be renewed according to the standard renewal procedure of sections 4745.01 to 4745.03 of the Revised Code. A person who has received a license, upon the sale or disposition of the hotel or SRO facility or its removal to a new location, may, upon obtaining consent of the fire marshal, have the license transferred. No license shall be transferred without the consent of the fire marshal.

(B) A license to maintain and operate a hotel or an SRO facility shall not be issued to the keeper, owner, or lessee of any hotel or SRO facility where accommodations for assignation purposes are furnished, or to any keeper, owner, or lessee who has been convicted of keeping a place in violation of the law relating to houses of assignation or places of public nuisance.

(C)(1) No person licensed to maintain and operate a hotel or SRO facility shall also maintain and operate an agricultural labor camp, apartment house, lodging house, rooming house, or hospital or college dormitory in the same structure as is located the licensed hotel or SRO facility, unless the agricultural labor camp, apartment house, lodging house, rooming house, or hospital or college dormitory has been constructed as, and been approved by the building official having jurisdiction over it and by the fire marshal as being, a separate building within the hotel or SRO facility structure in accordance with approved building separation rated assemblies.

(2) All hotel and SRO facility uses shall continue in accordance with their approval under the license issued by the fire marshal unless a change in use has been approved by the building official having jurisdiction over the hotel or SRO facility and by the fire marshal.

(D) A license to maintain and operate an SRO facility shall permit the facility to offer rooms for thirty days or less if less than fifty per cent of its rooms are occupied for a period of thirty days or less.

Effective Date: 04-09-2003