As used in this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
(a) "Administrator" means the City Treasurer or his or her designee.
(b) "Booking Agent" means any person or entity that facilitates reservations or collects payment for hotel accommodations on behalf of or for a vendor. Merely publishing an advertisement for accommodations does not make the publisher a booking agent.
(c) "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 guests, in which one or more rooms are used for the accommodation of guests, regardless of use of keyed entry, whether the rooms are in one or several structures.
(d) "Transaction" means the total amount of consideration, including money or any other value, paid, or to be paid, or given by, or on behalf of, a transient guest to a hotel or booking agent in exchange for lodging.
(e) "Transient guests" means persons occupying a room or rooms for sleeping accommodations for less than thirty consecutive days.
(f) "Vendor" means the person who is the owner or operator of the hotel and who furnishes the lodging.
(Ord. 122-2018. Passed 6-4-18.)