§ 3-2-141. Definitions.

The following words and phrases when used in this article shall, for the purposes of this article, have the following respective meanings, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

(1)

Hotel. Any public or private hotel, inn, apartment hotel, hostelry, tourist home or house, motel, rooming house, short-term residential rental as defined in section 3-2-152, or other lodging place within the city offering lodging to any transient as hereinafter defined for compensation and, except for short-term residential rental as defined in section 3-2-152, which can lodge four or more persons at any one time.

(2)

Lodging. Any space or room furnished any transient.

(3)

Person. Any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, person acting in a representative capacity or any group of individuals acting as a unit.

(4)

Room rental. The total charge, exclusive of any tax imposed on such charge, made by any hotel for lodging furnished any transient. If the charge made by any hotel to a transient includes any charge for services or accommodations in addition to that of lodging, then that portion of the total charge as represents only lodging rental shall be distinctly set out and billed to the transient by the hotel as a separate item.

(5)

Transient. Any person who, for a period of not more than 90 consecutive days or, for short-term residential rentals, for a period of fewer than 30 consecutive days, either at his own expense or at the expense of another obtains lodging in any hotel, as hereinabove defined, for which lodging a charge is made. (Ord. No. 5091, 11/18/17, Sec. 1, eff. 1/1/18)