Member Resources
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (ADA)
Enforcement of new ADA rules starts March 15, 2012. Are you ready? Lodging facilities are affected in numerous ways, including:
Reservations Made by Places of Lodging. The rule establishes requirements for reservations made by places of lodging, including procedures that will allow individuals with disabilities to make reservations for accessible guest rooms during the same hours and in the same manner as other guests, and requirements that will require places of lodging to identify and describe accessible features of a guest room, to hold back the accessible guest rooms for people with disabilities until all other guest rooms of that type have been rented, and to ensure that a reserved accessible guest room is removed from all reservations systems so that it is not inadvertently released to someone other than the person who reserved the accessible room. The final rule limits the obligations of third-party reservation operators that do not themselves own and operate places of lodging. In addition, to allow the hospitality industry appropriate time to change reservation systems, the final rule gives places of lodging 18 months from the publication date, September 15, 2010, to come into compliance with these requirements.
For ADA Fact Sheet and other details, click here.
ADA Service Animals Brief
BED BUG INFORMATION
American Hotel & Lodging Association & Ecolab have provided a toolkit for bed bug management. For details, click here.
FEDERAL HIRE ACT INFORMATION
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
South Dakota Hotel Regulations
Safeguarding of Property in Hotels
Smoking ban (Referred Law 12) was approved by SD Voters in November, 2010. It requires smoking rooms to be posted as such.
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South Dakota Department of Labor - Unemployment Insurance Information
South Dakota Department of Revenue
Swimming Pool Design & Operation
Requirements for Posting Hotel Evacuation Plans
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