The city of Branson has ended their program aimed at making lodging facilities comply with city regulations and codes, according to a press release from the city government.

The full press release is below:

(BRANSON, MO, January 28, 2025) The City of Branson has announced the successful completion of its Lodging Safety Initiative, a compliance assistance program aimed at ensuring all lodging establishments operating within city limits are fully licensed and complying with required public health, safety, and licensing standards. Since its launch in September 2023, the initiative has ensured consistency and accountability in the protection of public health and safety for visiting guests and other occupants of lodging establishments located within city limits, all while ensuring a fair and equal regulatory playing field for routinely compliant lodging operators. All identified lodging establishments of the initiative have since achieved compliance with city and state licensing and code regulations or are no longer operating as a lodging establishment.

The initiative focused on developing a compliance assistance-based approach to address unlicensed lodging establishments and properties with significant life and safety violations. In coordination across City departments and local stakeholders, the program addressed approximately sixty properties. Through a strategic compliance assistance process, identified establishments were brought into compliance through pro-active outreach, education, and clear communication by city departments to assist operators in navigating and addressing violations, inspections, and licensing procedures.

“As a premier vacation destination, our city thrives and depends on a successful lodging industry that offers safe and welcoming accommodations,” said Mayor Larry Milton. “The completion of this initiative restores the standard in Branson, ensuring the validity of our city’s business licensing program designed to promote essential safety and health requirements and ensuring routinely law-abiding businesses have an equal regulatory playing field to be successful.”

“This initiative highlights our city government’s proactive approach and collaboration with the business community to achieve public safety and health requirements to operate successfully in Branson,” said City Administrator Cathy Stepp. “This initiative demonstrates our ability at City Hall to be business-friendly, through utilization of a compliance assistance-based approach, while also achieving our top priority of protecting the health and safety of those who live in and visit Branson.”

With the conclusion of the Lodging Safety Initiative, the City of Branson will continue its proactive approach in ensuring that all lodging establishments continue to meet the basic city requirements to successfully operate as licensed establishments within city limits. For more information, please visit the City’s website: www.bransonmo.gov/lodgingsafetyinitiative.

The above press release is from the Branson government.