171.01 DEFINITIONS.

   The following words or phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them:

   (a)    "Excise tax" means the tax made by the Municipality on transactions by which lodgings by a hotel are or are to be furnished to transient guests.

   (b)    "Person" includes individuals, receivers, assignees, trustees in bankruptcy, estates, firms, partnerships, associations, joint-stock companies, joint ventures, clubs, societies, corporations, the State and its political subdivisions, and combinations of individuals of any form.

   (c)    "Hotel" 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 five or more rooms are used for the accommodation of such guests, whether such rooms are in one or several structures, and includes what are commonly known as hotels and motels.

   (d)    "Transient guests" means persons occupying a room or rooms for sleeping accommodations for less than thirty consecutive days.

      (Ord. 72-13. Passed 3-20-72.)