306.020 Limited liability when safe is provided.

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(1)The proprietor of any hotel may provide a safe in a convenient place, for the

safekeeping of money, jewelry, furs, securities or other valuable papers or other

valuable property of small compass belonging to the guests, and post a copy of this

section in a public and conspicuous place and manner in the office, public rooms

and public parlors of the hotel, notifying the guests that a safe is provided in which

such property may be deposited. Then, if the guests neglect to deliver such property

to the person in charge of the office for deposit in the safe, the proprietor shall not

be liable for any loss of such property sustained by the guests by negligence of the

proprietor or hotel employees, or by fire, theft, burglary or any other cause.

(2)However, no proprietor of any hotel shall be obligated to receive property on

deposit for safekeeping exceeding three hundred dollars ($300) in value. If guests

deliver property of a greater value to the person in charge of the office for deposit in

the safe, the proprietor shall not be liable for the loss or damage thereof sustained in

any sum exceeding three hundred dollars ($300), notwithstanding the property may

be of greater value, unless the guests make a special agreement in writing with the

proprietor.