137C.7  License required.

No person shall open or operate a hotel until a license has been obtained from the regulatory authority and until the hotel has been inspected by the regulatory authority. Each license shall expire one year from date of issue. A license is renewable. All licenses issued under the Iowa hotel sanitation code that are not renewed by the licensee on or before the expiration date shall be subject to a penalty of ten percent of the license fee if the license is renewed at a later date. A license is not transferable.

Section History: Early form

  [S13, § 2527-l; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 2809; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, § 170.2; C79, 81, § 170B.4]

Section History: Recent form

  90 Acts, ch 1204, § 66

  C91, § 137C.7

  2002 Acts, ch 1119, §132


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