H-3 - Hotels Act

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11. The Government may make regulations
(a)  to determine the qualifications required of any person who applies for a permit, a renewal of a permit or a certificate under section 10, the conditions with which he must comply, the financial statements and other documents which he must produce, the information which he must furnish and the duties which he must pay;
(b)  to subdivide each class of establishments and define within such classes the subdivisions that are subject to the application of this act;
(c)  to ensure the protection of travellers and the cleanliness and proper maintenance of establishments;
(d)  to determine the method of registering travellers in hotel establishments and camping grounds and trailer parks;
(e)  to define the publicity to be given to the price of rooms, camping and trailer park units and meals and forbid the charging of prices higher than those so published;
(f)  to prohibit or regulate the soliciting of travellers;
(g)  to establish standards respecting the construction, enlarging and repairing of establishments, the furnishing, maintenance, heating and lighting thereof and the services they must make available to travellers;
(h)  to regulate tourist information bureaus or prohibit the operation thereof, with or without exceptions;
(i)  to fix, for each class of hotel establishments determined in accordance with section 2, the minimum number of rooms which must be made available to customers;
(j)  to fix, for camping grounds and trailer parks and for each class of hotel establishment, restaurant and tourist information bureau determined in accordance with section 2, minimum standards respecting the services which must be offered to customers;
(k)  to determine the form of permits and of applications for permits, and the duration of permits;
(l)  to establish standards respecting the maximum number of camping and trailer park units that may be made available to travellers on any camping ground and trailer park, taking into account the dimensions and arrangement of the camping ground and trailer park and the services which are made available there to travellers, and to define the expression “camping and trailer park unit” for the purposes of this act;
(m)  to fix the maximum sums of money which the operator of a hotel establishment or camping ground and trailer park may require of a customer as a payment on account or forfeit, according to the duration of his stay and the price of the services offered to him, and to determine the conditions under which the operator may retain such sums of money;
(n)  to fix, for the purposes of computing the cost of a customer’s stay on any camping ground or in any class of hotel establishments determined in accordance with section 2, the hour before which a customer must leave the establishment or ground so as not to be charged additional costs, and the standards whereby he may be charged additional costs if he leaves the establishment or ground after the hour indicated;
(o)  (subparagraph ceased to have effect on 31 December 1984).
Every regulation made under this section or under section 2 shall be published in the Gazette officielle du Québec and shall come into force on the date of its publication or on such later date as is fixed by the regulation.
R. S. 1964, c. 205, s. 12; 1969, c. 59, s. 8; 1983, c. 54, s. 42; 1983, c. 54, s. 121; 1986, c. 45, s. 5.
11. The Government may make regulations
(a)  to determine the qualifications required of any person who applies for a permit, a renewal of a permit or a certificate under section 10, the conditions with which he must comply, the financial statements and other documents which he must produce, the information which he must furnish and the duties which he must pay;
(b)  to subdivide each class of establishments and define within such classes the subdivisions that are subject to the application of this act;
(c)  to ensure the protection of travellers and the cleanliness and proper maintenance of establishments;
(d)  to determine the method of registering travellers in hotel establishments and camping grounds and trailer parks;
(e)  to define the publicity to be given to the price of rooms, camping and trailer park units and meals and forbid the charging of prices higher than those so published;
(f)  to prohibit or regulate the soliciting of travellers;
(g)  to establish standards respecting the construction, enlarging and repairing of establishments, the furnishing, maintenance, heating and lighting thereof and the services they must make available to travellers;
(h)  to define what constitutes a tourist information office or a tourist guides’ kiosk and regulate or prohibit the use thereof with or without exceptions;
(i)  to fix, for each class of hotel establishments determined in accordance with section 2, the minimum number of rooms which must be made available to customers;
(j)  to fix, for camping grounds and trailer parks and for each class of hotel establishments and restaurants determined in accordance with section 2, minimum standards respecting the services which must be offered to customers;
(k)  to determine the form of permits and of applications for permits, and the duration of permits;
(l)  to establish standards respecting the maximum number of camping and trailer park units that may be made available to travellers on any camping ground and trailer park, taking into account the dimensions and arrangement of the camping ground and trailer park and the services which are made available there to travellers, and to define the expression “camping and trailer park unit” for the purposes of this act;
(m)  to fix the maximum sums of money which the operator of a hotel establishment or camping ground and trailer park may require of a customer as a payment on account or forfeit, according to the duration of his stay and the price of the services offered to him, and to determine the conditions under which the operator may retain such sums of money;
(n)  to fix, for the purposes of computing the cost of a customer’s stay on any camping ground or in any class of hotel establishments determined in accordance with section 2, the hour before which a customer must leave the establishment or ground so as not to be charged additional costs, and the standards whereby he may be charged additional costs if he leaves the establishment or ground after the hour indicated;
(o)  (subparagraph ceased to have effect on 31 December 1984).
Every regulation made under this section or under section 2 shall be published in the Gazette officielle du Québec and shall come into force on the date of its publication or on such later date as is fixed by the regulation.
R. S. 1964, c. 205, s. 12; 1969, c. 59, s. 8; 1983, c. 54, s. 42; 1983, c. 54, s. 121.
11. The Government may make regulations
(a)  to determine the qualifications required of any person who applies for a permit, a renewal of a permit or a certificate under section 10, the conditions with which he must comply, the financial statements and other documents which he must produce, the information which he must furnish and the duties which he must pay;
(b)  to subdivide each class of establishments and define within such classes the subdivisions that are subject to the application of this act;
(c)  to ensure the protection of travellers and the cleanliness and proper maintenance of establishments;
(d)  to determine the method of registering travellers in hotel establishments and camping grounds and trailer parks;
(e)  to define the publicity to be given to the price of rooms, camping and trailer park units and meals and forbid the charging of prices higher than those so published;
(f)  to prohibit or regulate the soliciting of travellers;
(g)  to establish standards respecting the construction, enlarging and repairing of establishments, the furnishing, maintenance, heating and lighting thereof and the services they must make available to travellers;
(h)  to define what constitutes a tourist information office or a tourist guides’ kiosk and regulate or prohibit the use thereof with or without exceptions;
(i)  to fix, for each class of hotel establishments determined in accordance with section 2, the minimum number of rooms which must be made available to customers;
(j)  to fix, for camping grounds and trailer parks and for each class of hotel establishments and restaurants determined in accordance with section 2, minimum standards respecting the services which must be offered to customers;
(k)  to determine the form of permits and of applications for permits, and the duration of permits;
(l)  to establish standards respecting the maximum number of camping and trailer park units that may be made available to travellers on any camping ground and trailer park, taking into account the dimensions and arrangement of the camping ground and trailer park and the services which are made available there to travellers, and to define the expression “camping and trailer park unit” for the purposes of this act;
(m)  to fix the maximum sums of money which the operator of a hotel establishment or camping ground and trailer park may require of a customer as a payment on account or forfeit, according to the duration of his stay and the price of the services offered to him, and to determine the conditions under which the operator may retain such sums of money;
(n)  to fix, for the purposes of computing the cost of a customer’s stay on any camping ground or in any class of hotel establishments determined in accordance with section 2, the hour before which a customer must leave the establishment or ground so as not to be charged additional costs, and the standards whereby he may be charged additional costs if he leaves the establishment or ground after the hour indicated.
Every regulation made under this section or under section 2 shall be published in the Gazette officielle du Québec and shall come into force on the date of its publication or on such later date as is fixed by the regulation.
R. S. 1964, c. 205, s. 12; 1969, c. 59, s. 8.