Deposit of valuables by guest with innkeeper

The innkeeper may provide a safe or other place of deposit for valuable articles and, by posting a notice thereof, may require guests of the innkeeper to place such valuable articles therein or the innkeeper shall be relieved from responsibility for such articles. For all valuable 700 43-21-10 HOTEL, INN, & ROADHOUSE OPERATORS 43-21-10 articles placed by a guest with an innkeeper for safekeeping, the innkeeper shall give a receipt therefor to evidence the fact of such deposit. No guest shall recover from the innkeeper more than $750.00 for loss of valuable articles deposited with the innkeeper for safekeeping unless such guest shall possess a receipt of the innkeeper for the valuable articles claimed to have been lost. History. Orig. Code 1863, § 2098; Code 1868, § 2093; Code 1873, § 2119; Code 1882, § 2119; Civil Code 1895, § 2937; Civil Code 1910, § 3510; Ga. L. 1922, p. 52, § 1; Code 1933, § 52-110; Ga. L. 1984, p. 924, § 1.