For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates of requires a different meaning.
HOTEL and MOTEL. Any hotel, motel, inn, public lodging house, rooming house or tourist court, or any place where sleeping accommodations are furnished to transient guests for rent, whether with or without meals. However, it does not include sleeping rooms in dormitories or in memorial unions at universities and colleges located in the city or the guests of a religious institution if the property is exempt under Iowa Code § 427.1, subs. 8, and the purpose of renting is to provide a place for a religious retreat or function and not a place for transient guests generally.
RENTING and RENT. Any kind of direct or indirect charge for sleeping rooms, apartments, sleeping quarters or the use thereof, in any hotel or motel.
(Ord. C-390, passed 11-18-2003)