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Connecticut · Through Revised to January 1, 2026 (2026 Supplement to the General Statutes of Connecticut, applied over the base revision of January 1, 2025)

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-107: (Formerly Sec. 19-63). Towels in hotels and public lavatories.

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  1. TITLE 19a. PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
  2. CHAPTER 368a*. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH

All towels provided by any hotel, for the use of guests therein, or by any public lavatory shall be individual towels, or toweling may be provided so arranged in locked cabinets that each user may pull out a clean portion and the used portion shall be automatically drawn into a separate compartment and mechanically locked to prevent withdrawal for reuse. Any such towel or toweling which has been used and discarded by an individual shall not be used again until thoroughly washed and dried. Each guest occupying a room in any hotel shall be furnished with such towels in such room; and, in the public washroom, if any, in such hotel, there shall be kept at all times, in sight of, and easy of access to, guests a sufficient supply of individual towels or toweling so arranged in locked cabinets that each user may pull out a clean portion and the used portion shall be automatically drawn into a separate compartment and mechanically locked to prevent withdrawal for reuse. The owner, manager, agent or person in charge of any hotel or public lavatory who fails to comply with any of the provisions hereof shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense.

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