As used in this chapter:
(a) “Hotel” includes motels and rooming houses and means every establishment kept, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public to be a place where sleeping accommodations are offered to guests, in which one or more rooms are used for the accommodation of such guests, whether such rooms are in one or several structures.
(Ord. 12(06-07). Passed 3-16-06.)
(b) “Transient guests” means persons occupying a room or rooms for sleeping accommodations for less than thirty consecutive days.
(c) “Vendor” means the person who is the owner or operator of the hotel and who furnishes the lodging.
(Ord. 36 (70-71). Passed 11-5-70.)