Guest versus Resident
3/21/23 Update: This bill became law on March 19, 2023. Read Ratified Bill Here.
The North Carolina Legislature has filed two identical bills clarifying that Hotel Guests should not be granted residential tenancy protections. Senate Bill 53 and House Bill 41 reaffirms that hotel rooms are not residential occupancies unless specifically identified as such.
Enacts new GS 42-14.6 providing that the provisions of GS Chapter 42 (landlord and tenant) do not apply to transient occupancies. Specifies that an agreement related to a transient occupancy is not deemed to create a tenancy or a residential tenancy unless expressly provided in the agreement.
Applies to a person renting an accommodation in an inn, hotel, motel, recreational vehicle park, campground, or similar lodging facility on or after the date this act becomes law. Requires that a person's rental period be calculated from the first day of consecutive occupation, or right of occupation, in the lodging facility regardless of whether the period began before the act's effective date. - School of Government - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
