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For immediate release: October 18, 2005 (05-135)
Contacts:
Allen Spaulding, Facilities
and Services Licensing 360-236-2929
Deanna Whitman, Communications
Office 360-236-4022
Lakewood motel suspended for unsanitary, unsafe conditions
OLYMPIA ¾ The state Department of Health has immediately suspended the license of the Colonial Motor Inn at 12117 Pacific Highway South in Lakewood because it poses an immediate threat to its guests. The Lakewood Fire Marshall and Lakewood building officials closed the inn on October 11, 2005. Investigators discovered the motel has been violating construction, maintenance, electrical, fire and safety codes and operating under unsanitary conditions. The motel must be vacated immediately and may not offer accommodations until a hearing is held.
Conditions in the motel rooms include mold, exposed electrical wiring and general unsanitary conditions. The owner of the Colonial Motor Inn has 20 days to request a hearing and contest these charges.
The department’s Transient Accommodations Program is working with the Lakewood Police, Lakewood Fire District, Tacoma/Pierce County Health Department, the City of Lakewood Code Enforcement Office and the Department of Labor and Industries.
Motels offering three or more units to guests for less than 30 days must be licensed by the state agency’s Facilities and Services Licensing Program. The program is responsible for licensing about 1,700 motels, hotels, inns, resorts and bed-and-breakfast facilities in the state and enforces health and safety standards for those establishments.
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