Posted liability limit

Definition

Ohio caps liability for baggage left in its care, and a safe, locks and posted notices limit it for valuables.

Why It Matters

The residue term reads the guest's property from the innkeeper's side and this reads it from the guest's. Ohio caps the liability at a hundred and fifty dollars for a trunk, fifty for a valise and ten for a box left in the innkeeper's care. Those caps are automatic and nothing has to be posted for them. What the posting buys is separate and larger: no liability for a guest's money, jewelry and valuable papers unless the guest offered them for the safe and was refused. It is conditional on things a buyer can walk in and count. A metal safe in good order, locks on the sleeping room doors, fastenings on the transoms and windows, and a copy of the statute posted in at least ten conspicuous places. The next section keeps the innkeeper liable for theft or negligence by the innkeeper or staff. Florida hangs its own cap on a receipt form instead. Ohio's protection is free and it is physical, which is the part that bites. A remodel that took the placards down removes that immunity with no notice, no renewal and no inspector, and posting the day after closing does not protect a loss a guest suffered the week before.