For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(a) "Administrator" means the Finance Director.
(b) "Hotel" means every establishment kept, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public to be a place where sleeping accommodations are offered for consideration to temporary occupants, in which one or more rooms are used for the accommodation of temporary occupants, whether the rooms are in one or more structures. The term "hotel" includes a motel, bed and breakfast, boarding houses, and short-term rentals (ex. AirBNBs).
(c) "Temporary occupants" means persons occupying a room or rooms for sleeping accommodations for less than thirty days.
(d) "Vendor" means the person who is the owner or operator of the hotel and who furnishes the lodging.
(Ord. 20-19. Passed 9-3-19; Ord. 20-23. Passed 10-17-23.)