As used in this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
(a) "Administrator" means the City Treasurer or his/her designee.
(b) “Bed and Breakfast” means an owner-occupied private single-family residence which is the principal residence of the owner and the principal structure on the premises, with bedrooms available for rent to the general public and with breakfast served at no additional cost.
(c) "Hotel" means every establishment kept, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public to be a place where sleeping accommodations are offered for considerations to guests, in which two or more rooms are used for the accommodation of guests, whether the rooms are in one or several structures.
(d) “Short-term rental” means a business engaged in the rental of an entire dwelling unit or a portion of a dwelling unit to provide guest lodging and which does not include serving food. Short-term rentals include, by way of example, Airbnb and VRBO.
(e) “Transient guests” means persons occupying a room or rooms for sleeping accommodations for pay periods not-to-exceed 29 days.
(f) “Vendor” means the person who is the owner or operator of the hotel or short-term rental and who furnishes the lodging.
(Ord. 171-22. Passed 10-3-22.)