In this title, the following words have the meanings indicated:
(1) "Booking transaction" means a reservation transaction between a host and a prospective transient guest for a short-term residential rental.
(2) "Dwelling unit" has the meaning stated in § 18-1-101 of this Code, except that the term does not include a boat that is or could be used as a dwelling unit.
(3) "Host" means the owner of a dwelling unit who, in exchange for rent, provides all or part of the dwelling unit for short-term residential rental use.
(4) "Hosting platform" means an internet-based entity that, in exchange for rent, facilitates reservations and booking transactions of short-term residential rentals.
(5) (i) "Rent" means the consideration paid for the use or occupancy of a short-term rental in the County.
(ii) "Rent" includes both the "net rent" and the "additional rent" when the use or occupancy of a short-term rental is reserved, booked, brokered, or otherwise arranged for by a remarketer and the full amount of the rent is not paid by the occupant directly to the owner or operator.
(iii) "Rent" includes charges for services and booking fees that are a condition of use or occupancy and any amount for which credit is allowed by the owner or operator or remarketer to the occupant.
(iv) "Rent" does not include charges for optional services provided by the owner or operator of a short-term rental to the occupant that are in addition to the charge for use or occupancy and that are set forth separately on the bill presented to the occupant.
(6) "Short-term residential rental" means the use or occupancy, facilitated by a hosting platform in exchange for rent, of all or part of a dwelling unit to provide accommodations to transient guests for no more than 120 consecutive days in a calendar year.
(7) "Transient guest" means a person who pays rent to occupy or have the right to occupy all or part of a dwelling unit.
(8) "Unhosted rental" means a short-term residential rental under which the host does not occupy the dwelling unit during the transient guest's stay.
(Bill No. 89-19)