181.02 DEFINITIONS.
   Whenever any of the following words, terms or definitions are used in this chapter, they shall have the following meaning:
   (a)   “Hotel/motel” means every establishment kept, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public to be a place where sleeping accommodations are offered for a consideration to guests, in which five or more rooms are used for the accommodation of transient guests, whether the rooms are one or several structures. (ORC 5739.01(M)).
   (b)   “Operator” means the person who is the proprietor of the hotel/motel, whether in the capacity of owner, lessee, mortgagee in possession, licensee or any other capacity. Where the operator performs his/her/its functions through a managing agent of any type or character other than an employee, the managing agent shall also be deemed an operator for the purpose of this chapter, and shall have the same duties and liabilities as his principal. Compliance with the provisions of this chapter by either the principal or managing agent, shall, however, be considered to be compliance by both.
   (c)   “Person” means any natural person, receiver, administrator, executor, conservator, assignee, trust, estate, firm, co-partnership, joint venture, club, company, business trust, domestic or foreign corporation, association, syndicate, society or any other group of individuals acting as a unit, whether mutual, cooperative, fraternal, nonprofit or otherwise. Whenever “person” is used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty, “person” as applied to associations shall mean the owners or part-owners thereof, and as applied to corporations, the officers thereof.
   (d)   “Rent” means the consideration received for occupancy valued in money, whether received in money or otherwise, including all receipts, cash, credits and property or services of any kind or nature, and also any amount for which the occupant is liable for the occupancy without any deduction therefrom whatsoever, or, in short, the gross rental or leasing charge.
   (e)   “Transient guest” means persons occupying a room, or rooms, for sleeping for less than thirty consecutive days.
   (f)   “Treasurer” means the City Treasurer of the City of Bucyrus, Ohio.
      (Ord. 60-93. Passed 8-17-93.)