For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
GROSS RENTAL RECEIPTS: The total amount of consideration for occupancy, valued in money, whether received in money or otherwise, including all receipts, cash, credits, and property or services of any kind or nature, including, but not limited to, amounts charged for the making, servicing or facilitating reservations.
HOTEL: Any building or buildings in which the public may, for a consideration, obtain living quarters, sleeping or housekeeping accommodations. The term includes inns, motels, tourist homes or courts, lodging houses, rooming houses and apartment houses.
HOTEL AND TOURISM DISTRICT: The public rights-of-way and adjacent properties contained within the following boundary: beginning at the point of intersection of the Village's eastern and northern boundaries, then westward along the northern corporate boundary of the Village to Illinois Route 83, then south along Illinois Route 83 to 31st Street, then west along 31st Street to Midwest Road, then south along Midwest Road to 35th Street, then east to Illinois Route 83, then south along Illinois Route 83 to the southern boundary of the Village, then east to the Village's eastern boundary, then north along the Village's eastern boundary to the point of intersection of the Village's eastern and northern boundaries.
PERMANENT RESIDENT: Any person who occupies or has the right to occupy any room or rooms in a hotel for at least thirty (30) consecutive days.
PERSON: Any natural individual, firm, business, partnership, association, joint stock company, joint adventure, public or private corporation, or a receiver, executor, trustee, guardian or other representative appointed by order of any court.
ROOM OR ROOMS: Any living quarters, sleeping or housekeeping accommodations. (Ord. G-1131, 7-10-2018)