GROSS RENTAL RECEIPTS: | The total amount of consideration 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, including but not limited to, amounts charged for the making, booking, facilitating or servicing of reservations. |
HOTEL: | Any building or buildings in which the public may, for consideration, obtain living quarters, sleeping or housekeeping accommodations. The term includes includes, but not be limited to, inns, hotels, motels, tourist homes or courts, lodging houses, rooming houses and apartment houses, retreat centers, conference centers, and hunting lodges. |
HOTEL ROOM: | A room within a hotel offered for rental on a daily basis. |
OCCUPANCY: | The use or possession, or the right to the use or possession, of any hotel room or rooms for any purpose, or the right to the use or possession of the furnishings or to the services and accommodations accompanying the use and possession of the hotel room or rooms. |
OWNER: | Any person having an ownership interest in or conducting the operations of a hotel or receiving the consideration for the rental of a hotel room or rooms. |
PERMANENT RESIDENT: | Any person who occupies or has the right to occupy any hotel room or rooms, regardless of whether or not it is the same hotel room or rooms, in a hotel for at least thirty (30) consecutive days. |
PERSON: | Any individual, firm, partnership, association, joint stock company, joint venture, public or private corporation, limited liability company, or a receiver, executor, trustee, guardian, or other representative appointed by order of any court. |
RENTER: | Any person who pays for the privilege of using or occupying a hotel room for the period for which payment is made. |
RENT OR RENTAL: | 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. |
ROOM OR ROOMS: | Any living quarters, sleeping, or housekeeping accommodations in a hotel. |
TREASURER: | The city treasurer of the City of Dixon, Illinois. (Ord. 3374, 10-16-2023) |