For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CONSIDERATION. The cost of the room in such hotel only if the room is one ordinarily used for sleeping, and shall not include the cost of any food served or personal services rendered to the occupant of the room not related to the cleaning and readying of such room for occupancy.
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 are furnished for consideration, but HOTEL shall not be defined so as to include hospitals, sanitariums, convalescent homes, or nursing homes.
OCCUPANCY. The use or possession, or the right to use or possession, of any room in a hotel if the room is one ordinarily used for sleeping and if the occupant’s use, possession or right to use or possession extends for a period of less than 30 days.
OCCUPANT. Anyone who, for a consideration, uses, possesses or has the right to use or possess any room in a hotel, if the room is one ordinarily used for sleeping.
PERMANENT RESIDENT. Any person who has the right to use or possess a room or occupy space in a hotel as that term is defined herein for at least 30 consecutive days, so long as there is no interruption of payment for the period.
(‘78 Code, § 10-61) (Ord. 634, passed 9-23-85; Ord. OR-2201-21, passed 2-8-21)