ADMINISTRATOR means the director of the department designated by the city manager to enforce and administer this article, including the director's designees.
ADVERTISE means the act of drawing the public's attention to a short-term rental in order to promote the availability of the residence for use as a short-term rental. Said advertising may be found in any medium, including but not limited to, newspaper, magazine, brochure, website, or mobile application.
BEDROOM means the living area(s) of the dwelling unit that is designed and furnished for sleeping and which has proper egress as required by the International Residential Code.
BOOKING SERVICE means any reservation and/or payment service provided by a person or entity that facilitates a short-term rental transaction between an owner and a prospective occupant, and for which the person or entity collects or receives, directly or indirectly through an agent or intermediary, a fee in connection with the reservation and/or payment services provided for the short-term rental transaction.
HOSTING PLATFORM means a person or entity that participates in the short-term rental business by providing, and collecting or receiving a fee for, booking services through which an owner may offer premises for an occupant on a short-term basis. hosting platforms usually, though not necessarily, provide booking services through an online platform that allows an owner to advertise the premises through a website provided by the hosting platform and the hosting platform conducts a transaction by which potential occupants arrange their use and their payment, whether the would-be occupant pays rent directly to the owner or to the hosting platform.
OCCUPANT means any individual person living, sleeping or possessing a building, or portion thereof. A person is not required to be paying rent, providing in-kind services, or named in any lease, contract or other legal document to be considered an occupant.
OWNER means any person, agent, operator, firm, trust, corporation, partnership, or any other legal entity who has a legal or equitable interest in the property; or who is recorded in the official records of the county as holding title to the property; or who otherwise has control of the property, including the guardian of the estate of any such person, and the executor of the estate of such person if ordered to take possession of real property by a court.
PREMISES means for the purposes of this article property, a lot, plot or parcel of land, including any structures or portions of structures thereon.
SHORT-TERM RENTAL (STR) means the rental for compensation of dwellings or accessory dwelling units or portions thereof for the purpose of overnight lodging for a period of not less than one night and not more than 29 consecutive days other than ongoing month-to-month tenancy granted to the same renter for the same unit as their primary residence. This is not applicable to hotels, motels, and bed and breakfasts homes or bed and breakfast inns or rentals made for less than 30 days upon the sale of a dwelling when the tenancy is by the former owner.
(Ord. 26005-02-2023, § 1, passed 2-14-2023, eff. 2-28-2023)