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Beware of Price Gouging Laws
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Lodging is considered an essential consumer service under anti-price gouging laws. Some state statutes specifically identify hotels and motels to be providers of essential services, and these laws contain specific language addressing how hotels and motels must restrict their rates while the limitations are in effect.

The COVID-19 crisis resulted in the largest number of declarations of emergency the country has ever seen, at every governmental level. Many of them are still in effect. Others may be reinstituted should the number of viral cases increase. As re-opening proceeds, Hotels may be tempted to make large rate adjustments to offset revenue losses due to the crisis. Hotels must take care to understand whether they are: (1) in a state with an anti-price gouging law, and (2) whether an active state of emergency still exists.

Eckert Seamans
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