For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BED AND BREAKFAST ESTABLISHMENTS. Any place of temporary lodging that provides four or fewer rooms for rent, which is open for rental more than ten nights in a 12-month period, is the owner’s personal residence, is occupied by the owner at the time of rental, and in which the only meal served is breakfast.
HOTEL or MOTEL. A building or group of buildings in which the public may obtain accommodations for a consideration, including, without limitation, such establishments as inns, motels, tourist homes, tourist houses or courts, bed and breakfast establishments, lodging houses, rooming houses, summer camps, apartment hotels, resort lodges and cabins, and any other buildings or groups of buildings in which accommodations are available to the public, except accommodations rented for a continuous period of more than one month and accommodations furnished by any hospital, sanitorium, or nursing home or by corporations or associations organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, or educational purposes, provided that no part of the net earnings of such corporations and associations inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.
TRANSIENT. Any person residing for a continuous period of less than one month in a hotel, motel, or other furnished accommodations available to the public.
(Ord. passed 12-4-2000)