(a) The tax to be collected shall be stated and charged separately from the rent and show separately on any record thereof, at the time when the occupancy is arranged or contracted and charged for and upon every evidence of occupancy or any bill or statement or charge made for such occupancy issued or delivered by the operator, and the tax shall be paid by the occupant to the operator as trustee for and on account for the City and the operator shall be liable for the collection thereof and for the tax.
(b) No operator of a hotel or motel shall advertise or state in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, that the tax or any part thereof, shall be assumed or absorbed by the operator, or that it shall not be added to the rent, or that, if added any part shall be refunded except in the manner hereinafter provided.
(Ord. 1, 1983.)