The following words, terms or phrases are, for the purpose of this article, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning, defined as follows.
BUSINESS DAY. A day on which City of Fort Worth main offices are open for business and shall not include Saturdays, Sundays, City of Fort Worth holidays or other days on which city offices have been declared closed for business.
CONSIDERATION. The total price of, or total value received for, the right to use a room, sleeping room, sleeping space, bed or dormitory space, or other facilities in such hotel and shall not include the price or value of any food served or personal services rendered to the occupant not related to cleaning and readying such room or space for occupancy, and shall not include any tax assessed for occupancy thereof by any other governmental agency.
DUE DATE. The first business day following the end of the monthly collection/reporting period.
HOTEL. Any building or buildings, trailer, railroad pullman not being utilized for the transportation of travelers or any other facility in which the public may, for a consideration, obtain sleeping accommodations. The term shall include, hotels, motels, tourist homes, houses or courts, lodging houses, inns, rooming houses, trailer houses, trailer motels, railroad pullman cars parked on a siding or other area and used for sleeping accommodations not involving the transportation of travelers, dormitory space where bed space is rented to individuals or groups, apartments not occupied by permanent residents as that term is hereinafter defined, and all other facilities where rooms or sleeping facilities or open space is furnished for a consideration, but HOTEL shall not be defined so as to include hospitals, sanitariums or convalescent or nursing homes.
MONTHLY COLLECTION/REPORTING PERIOD. The regular calendar months of the year. The last day of each month marks the end of the MONTHLY COLLECTION/REPORTING PERIOD.
OCCUPANCY. The use or possession, or the right to the use or possession of any room, space or sleeping facility in a hotel for any purpose.
OCCUPANT. Anyone who, for a consideration, uses, possesses or has a right to use or possess any room or rooms, or sleeping space or facility in a hotel under any lease, concession, permit, right of access, license, contract or agreement.
PERMANENT RESIDENT. Any occupant who has or shall have the right to occupancy of any room or rooms, sleeping space or facility in a hotel for at least 30 consecutive days during the current calendar year or preceding year.
PERSON. Any individual, company, corporation or association owning, operating, managing or controlling any hotel.
TAX ASSESSOR-COLLECTOR. The tax assessor-collector of the city.
(1964 Code, § 19A-1) (Ord. 6542, § 1, passed 8-30-1971; Ord. 20486-11-2012, § 1, passed 11-6-2012)
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Definitions and rules of construction generally, see § 1-2