As used in this chapter:
(a) “Bed and breakfast” means a single-family dwelling in which there are one or more rooms in which transient paying guests may stay, sleep and/or eat over a period of one or more days, as distinguished from a boarding house, a lodging house, a hotel, a motel, or a tourist home and where the operator lives on the premises, or in adjacent premises. Bed and breakfasts may simultaneously be used for family dwelling use purposes and for transient guests.
(b) "Dwelling" means any building or structure which is occupied or intended for occupancy in whole or in part as a home or residence for one or more persons. Such term may be used in this chapter interchangeably with the term “unit.”
(c) "Guestroom" means a room offered to the public for a fee that contains, at a minimum, provisions for sleeping.
(d) "Hosting platform" means a person or entity in whatever form or format that facilitates, through advertising or any other means, a short-term rental booking transaction for accommodations between a short-term rental host and short-term rental guest, including, but not limited to, reservations and/or collection of payment for such accommodations on behalf of the short-term rental host. Examples include, but are not limited to, Airbnb, VRBO, and HomeAway.
(e) "Owner" means an individual(s), corporation, or partnership that has legal title to and control of a dwelling.
(f) "Permanent occupant" means persons who reside in a dwelling more than 51% of the time during a calendar year; the dwelling in which the persons reside shall be referred to as their primary residence.
(g) "Primary residence" means a residence that is the usual place of return for housing as documented by at least two of the following: motor vehicle registration, driver's license, tax documents, lease copy, or a utility bill. An owner or permanent occupant can only have one primary residence.
(h) "Short-term rental" means any room or dwelling that is rented wholly or partly for a fee for less than thirty consecutive days by persons other than the permanent occupant or owner from which the permanent occupant or owner receive monetary compensation, whether such compensation is paid directly by the short-term rental guest or is collected and remitted to the permanent occupant or owner by a hosting platform. "Short-term rental" does not include a room in any hotel or motel, or a bed and breakfast, both of which are defined elsewhere in this Code.
(i) "Short-term rental guests" means persons renting temporary lodging from a short-term rental host, or through a hosting platform on behalf of the short-term rental host, for less than 30 consecutive days.
(j) "Short-term rental host" or "host" means the owner and/or permanent occupant of a short-term rental who offers the short-term rental for temporary lodging.
(k) "Short-term rental operation" or "operation of a short-term rental" means the occupancy for a fee of any room or dwelling in a short-term rental by a transient guest.
(l) "Transient guests" means persons occupying a room or rooms for sleeping accommodations for less than 30 consecutive days.
(Ord. 22-O-3155, passed 1-3-2023)