796.01 DEFINITIONS.
(a) "Hotel" or "Motel" means any structure consisting of one or more buildings containing any combination of more than five guestrooms that are each approved by the building code official having jurisdiction and the state fire marshal as meeting the requirements for transient sleeping rooms or extended stay temporary residence dwelling units, or as having features of such sleeping rooms and dwelling units within the same room, and such structure is specifically constructed, kept, used, maintained, advertised, and held out to the public to be a place where transient sleeping accommodations or temporary residence is offered for pay to persons, but such structure does not otherwise meet the definition of a transient hotel or an extended stay hotel as defined in this section. "Hotel" does not include places of permanent personal residence, lodging houses, rooming houses, or hospitals.
(b) "Transient Hotel" or 'Transient Motel" means any structure consisting of one or more buildings, with more than five sleeping rooms, that is specifically constructed, kept, used, maintained, advertised, or held out to the public to be a place where sleeping accommodations are offered for pay to transient guests for a period of thirty days or less, including, but not limited to, such a structure denoted as a hotel, motel, motor hotel, lodge, motor lodge, bed and breakfast, or inn.
(c) "Transient" means not more than thirty days.
(d) "Banquet Facility" means a building, or portion thereof, for rent by the public which has a principal intended use of holding events, including but not limited to, assembly, meeting, reception, banquet, dinner, lunch, breakfast, dance, concert, or seminar.
(e) "Peace Officer" means (i) a sheriff, deputy sheriff, marshal, deputy marshal, member of the organized police department of a municipal corporation, or township constable, who is employed by a political subdivision of this state; a member of a police force employed by a metropolitan housing authority under division (D) of Section 3735.31 of the Revised Code; a member of a police force employed by a regional transit authority under division (Y) of Section 306.35 of the Revised Code; a state university law enforcement officer appointed under Section 3345.04 of the Revised Code; a veterans' home police officer appointed under Section 5907.02 of the Revised Code; a special police officer employed by a port authority under Section 4582.04 or 4582.28 of the Revised Code; an officer, agent, or employee of the state or any of its agencies, instrumentalities, or political subdivisions, upon whom, by statute, a duty to conserve the peace or to enforce all or certain laws is imposed and the authority to arrest violators is conferred, within limits of that statutory duty and authority; or a state highway patrol trooper whose primary duties are to preserve the peace, to protect life and property, and to enforce the laws, ordinances, or rules of the state or any of its political subdivisions; and (ii) who possess jurisdiction and arrest authority with the municipal boundaries of the City of Independence.
(f) "Operator" means the person who is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the hotel, motel, or Banquet Facility.
(Ord. 2021-77. Passed 7-13-21.)