As used in this chapter:
(a) "Hotel" and "motel" and "motor inn" 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 accommodations of such guests, whether such rooms are in one or several structures.
(b) "Transient guests" means natural persons who physically occupy 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. 90-67. Passed 6-19-90.)