As used in this chapter:
(a) "Accommodation" means any unit, or combination of units, set aside as a rental unit.
(b) "Advertising sign" means any sign within the City limits visible to a passerby, located outside of a motel, advertising rates and other information pertaining to the motel.
(c) "Auto tourist" or "transient" means any person who uses lodging space in a motel.
(d) "Hotel" means any building or buildings in which the public may, for a consideration, obtain living quarters or sleeping or housekeeping accommodations. The term includes inns, motels, tourist homes or courts, lodging houses, rooming houses, and apartment houses.
(e) "Motel" means a series of attached, semi-attached or detached dwelling units with separate entrances, operated as a single business, containing individual sleeping or living units with bathrooms and closet space, with or without kitchens, designed for, or used by, automobile tourists and transients, with convenient access to a parking space for the use of guests and direct and convenient access to a traveled road, and maintained as accommodations for auto tourists and transients by the day, week or month.
(f) "Occupancy" means the use or possession, or the right to the use or possession, of any room or rooms in a hotel 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 room or rooms.
(g) "Owner" and "operator" mean the owner, manager, tenant or person in charge of a motel.
(h) "Rent" and "rental" mean 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.
(i) "Room" and "rooms" mean any living quarters or sleeping or housekeeping accommodations.
(j) "Unit" means a room, or suite of rooms, in a motel, designed for occupation for living or sleeping purposes.
(1977 Code §§ 9-1201, 31-202; Ord. 2020-10. Passed 3-2-20)