SB 81

Abstract

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that it is a public nuisance for a hotel, other business, or person to provide sleeping accommodations for hire or rent for transient occupancy by guests to rent or hire, or for any lessor of real property, whether by tenancy or contract for deed, to rent a dwelling unit that has a sleeping accommodation in which an infestation of any bed bugs is found or suspected or for any person to place, discard, or dispose of any bedding, clothing, or other materials infested with bed bugs on the public way or in a refuse container or dumpster located on the public way, except when such bedding, clothing, or other material is placed in or near the person's refuse container or dumpster for pick-up as trash and the bedding, clothing, or other material is totally enclosed in a plastic bag and labeled as being infested with bed bugs, or for any person to recycle any furnishing, bedding, clothing, or other material infested with bed bugs.