Sec. 2155.052. LIABILITY FOR VALUABLES. (a) This section applies only to a hotel, apartment hotel, or boardinghouse keeper who:
(1) continuously maintains a metal safe or vault in the keeper's hotel, apartment hotel, or boardinghouse that is in good order and fit for the custody of money, jewelry, silver or gold articles, precious stones, personal ornaments, or documents; and
(2) keeps suitable locks or bolts on the guests' sleeping room doors and proper fastenings on the transom and window of guest rooms.
(b) A hotel, apartment hotel, or boardinghouse keeper is not liable for a loss or injury suffered by a guest from the loss of valuables in an amount of more than $50 if:
(1) the valuables could reasonably have been kept in the safe or vault of the hotel, apartment hotel, or boardinghouse;
(2) the loss or injury does not occur through the negligence or wrongdoing of the keeper or an employee of the hotel, apartment hotel, or boardinghouse; and
(3) a printed copy of this section is posted on the door of the guest's sleeping room.
(c) Subsection (b) does not apply if:
(1) the guest offered to deliver the valuables to the hotel, apartment hotel, or boardinghouse keeper for custody in the safe or vault; and
(2) the hotel, apartment hotel, boarding hotel, or boardinghouse keeper did not:
(A) deposit the valuables in the safe or vault; and
(B) issue a receipt for the valuables.
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
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