As used in this chapter:
(a) "Hotel/motel" means any structure consisting of one or more buildings, with more than five sleeping rooms, that is kept, used, maintained, advertised, or held out to the public to be a place where sleeping accommodations are offered for pay to guests, including, but not limited to, such a structure denoted as a hotel, motel, motor hotel, lodge, motor lodge, bed and breakfast, or inn.
(b) "Hotel/motel operation" means the occupancy of any guestroom or use of any hotel/motel facility.
(c) "Guest" means any person that occupies a guestroom.
(d) "Guestroom" means a room offered to the public for a fee that contains, at a minimum, provisions for sleeping.
(e) "Owner" means a corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization and any other group acting as a unit, or a person who has legal title to any structure or premises with or without accompanying actual possession thereof, and shall include the duly authorized agent or attorney, a purchaser, devisee, fiduciary and any person having a vested or contingent interest in the premises in question.
(f) "Operator" means any person who works at a hotel/motel in a capacity to facilitate the offering of guestrooms to guests, including, but not limited to, front desk workers.
(g) "Manager" means the general manager, shift manager, or any person in any supervisory position at the hotel/motel.
(h) "Employee" means any person who earns qualifying wages, commissions or other type of compensation from the hotel/motel.
(i) "Calls for service" means any and all calls, including but not limited to those to law enforcement or the Fire Department that result in a request that a representative be dispatched or directed to the hotel/motel, when those responses:
(1) Allege evidence of criminal activity;
(2) Result in an arrest, charge or citation; or
(3) Find an imminent threat to safety of persons or property.
(j) "Calls for service ratio" means the number of calls for service divided by the number of rooms in service at the hotel/motel.
(k) "Director" means the City Manager or the Director's authorized designee.
(Ord. 16-01. Passed 1-26-16.)