The State Hotel Inspector, upon ascertaining by inspection or otherwise that any hotel is being operated contrary to the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health, shall notify the owner, manager, agent, or person in charge of such hotel, in writing, in what respect it fails to comply with the regulations and require such person, within a reasonable time to be fixed by the the State Hotel Inspector, to do, or cause to be done, the things necessary to make it comply with the regulations, whereupon such owner, manager, agent, or person in charge of such hotel shall forthwith comply with such requirements. Any owner, manager, or person in charge of a hotel who shall willfully fail or neglect to comply with any of the provisions of the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health, after notice as aforesaid, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than $10 nor more than $50, and every day that such hotel is operated in violation of the rules and regulations shall constitute a separate offense.
Ala. Code § 34-15-9 (1975)