For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
DURANT HOTEL OWNERS. An organization comprised of hotel and motel owners and operators from entities within the city limits which meets regularly and is open to all owners and operators.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Efforts that seek to improve the economic well-being and quality of life for a community by creating and/or retaining jobs and supporting or growing incomes and the tax base.
HOTEL. Any building or buildings, structures, trailer, or other facility in which the public may, for consideration, obtain sleeping accommodations in which three or more rooms are used for the accommodations of such guests whether such rooms are in one or several structures. The terms shall include hotels, apartment hotels, motels, tourists homes, houses or courts, lodging houses, bed and breakfast inns, inns, rooming houses, trailer motels, sleeping rooms not occupied by “permanent residents,” and all other facilities where rooms or sleeping accommodations or space are furnished for a consideration. The term shall not include hospitals, sanitariums, nursing homes, assisted living centers, single-family homes, duplexes, garage apartments, or apartment complexes.
OCCUPANCY. The use or possession, or the right to the use or possession of any room or rooms in a hotel, or the right to the use or possession of the furnishings or to the services and accommodations accompanying the use and possessions of the room or rooms.
OCCUPANT. A person, who for a consideration, uses, possesses, or has the right to the use or possession of any room or rooms in a hotel under any lease, concession, permit, right to access, license to use, or any agreement.
OPERATOR. Any person or entity operating or managing a hotel in or from within this city, included, but not limited to, the owner, proprietor, manager, lessee, sublessee, mortgagee in possession, licensee, or any other person or entity otherwise operating such hotel.
PERMANENT RESIDENT. A single occupant who, during the current term of occupancy, occupies or has the right of occupancy of any room or rooms in a hotel for 30 consecutive or more days.
RENT. 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, and also any amount for which credit is allowed by the operator to the occupant, without any deduction therefrom whatsoever.
RETURN. Any return filed or required to be filed as herein provided.
ROOM. Any room or rooms of any kind in any part or portion of a hotel which is available for or let out for use or possessed for any purpose other than a place of assembly. As used herein, “place of assembly” means a room or space which is not capable of being occupied for lodging purposes and which is used for educational, recreational, or amusement purposes and shall include: dance halls; cabarets, night clubs, or restaurants; any room or space for public or private banquets, feast, social, card parties, or weddings; lodge and meeting half rooms, or skating rinks; gymnasiums; swimming pools; billiard, bowling and table tennis rooms; hall or rooms used for public or private catering purposes; funeral parlors; markets; recreational rooms; concert halls; broadcasting studios; and all other places of similar type of occupancy.
TAX. The tax levied pursuant to this section.
TOURISM. The business of providing information, accommodations, transportation, and other services to tourist.
TOURIST. A person who travels for pleasure, usually for a sightseeing and/or business and staying in hotels.
(Prior Code, § 37.121) (Ord. 1822, passed 1-26-2017)