Section 45-11-49 - Penalties on hotel and lodging house keepersEvery 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.
Codes, 1892, § 2091; 1906, § 2275; Hemingway's 1917, § 4642; 1930, § 4701; 1942, § 7012; Laws, 2004, ch. 379, § 2, eff. 7/1/2004.