In case any person who has been the guest or patron of any hotel or public inn ceases to be a guest or patron and leaves with the landlord or keeper of the hotel or public inn any baggage or other personal property for safekeeping, and the landlord or keeper accepts and receives the same for safekeeping, and makes no charge for services or storage in keeping the property, then the landlord or keeper of a hotel or public inn shall be liable only as a gratuitous bailee and as such shall be liable for no sum greater than fifty dollars.
Source: L. 2017: Entire article added with relocations, (HB 17-1245), ch. 240, p. 988, § 1, effective August 9.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-44-110 as it existed prior to 2017.