In this article:
(1) ACT means Chapter 334, Local Government Code, as amended.
(2) APPROVED VENUE PROJECT means the Dallas Sports Arena Project that was approved by a majority of the voters voting at an election held in the city on January 17, 1998, in accordance with the Act.
(3) CITY means the city of Dallas, Texas.
(4) DIRECTOR means the director of the department designated by the city manager to enforce and administer this article, or the director’s designated representative.
(5) GROSS RENTAL RECEIPTS means the value promised or received as consideration to the owner of a motor vehicle for the rental of the motor vehicle, but does not include:
(A) separately stated charges for insurance;
(B) charges for damages to the motor vehicle occurring during the rental agreement period;
(C) separately stated charges for motor fuel sold by the owner of the motor vehicle; or
(D) discounts.
(6) MOBILE OFFICE means a trailer designed to be used as an office, sales outlet, or other workplace.
(7) MOTOR VEHICLE means a self-propelled vehicle designed principally to transport persons or property on a public roadway and includes a passenger car, van, station wagon, sports utility vehicle, and truck. The term does not include:
(A) a trailer, semitrailer, house trailer, truck having a manufacturer’s rating of more than one-half ton, or road-building machine;
(B) a device moved only by human power;
(C) a device used exclusively on stationary rails or tracks;
(D) a farm machine; or
(E) a mobile office.
(8) OWNER OF A MOTOR VEHICLE means a person who:
(A) is named in the certificate of title as the owner of a motor vehicle; or
(B) has the exclusive use of a motor vehicle for the purpose of renting it to another person.
(9) PERSON means any individual, partnership, trust, company, corporation, association, or other entity.
(10) RENTAL means an oral or written agreement by the owner of a motor vehicle that authorizes for not longer than 30 days the exclusive use of that motor vehicle to another person for consideration, where the transfer of possession of the motor vehicle occurs within the corporate limits of the city.
(11) VENUE PROJECT FUND means the “Arena Project Fund” created in Resolution No. 98- 0749, adopted by the city council on February 25, 1998, as it may be amended. (Ord. 23456)