A. For the purposes of this Section, whenever any of the following words, terms or definitions are used herein, they shall have the following meaning:
(1) Village: The Village of Orland Park
(2) Finance Director: The Finance Director of the Village of Orland Park
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(3) Hotel Accommodations: A room or rooms in any building or structure located in the Village and kept, used or maintained as or advertised or held out to the public to be an inn, motel, hotel, apartment hotel, lodging house, dormitory or place, where sleeping, rooming, conference or exhibition accommodations are furnished for lease or rent, whether with or without meals, in which ten (10) or more such accommodations are used or maintained for guests, lodgers or roomers. The term "Hotel Accommodations" does not include an accommodation which a person occupies, or has the right to occupy, as his domicile and permanent residence.
(4) Person: Any natural person, receiver, administrator, executor, conservator, assignee, trust in perpetuity, trust, estate, firm, partnership, joint venture, club, company, business trust, domestic or foreign corporation, association, syndicate, society, or any group of individuals acting as a unit, whether mutual, cooperative, fraternal, for profit, nonprofit or otherwise. Whenever the term "Person" is used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty, the terms as applied to corporations shall include the officers thereof, and as applied to any other entity, the owners or part-owners thereof.
(5) Hotel Operator: Any person operating hotel accommodations.
(6) 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.
B. In this Section, unless the text otherwise requires, words in the singular number include the plural and in the plural include the singular; words of the masculine gender include the feminine and the neuter; and when the sense so indicates, words in the neuter gender may refer to any gender.
(Amd. Ord. 5290, 4-16-18)