No vendor shall fail to collect the full and exact tax as required by this chapter. No vendor shall refund, remit or rebate to a transient guest, either directly or indirectly, any of the tax levied pursuant to this chapter, or make in any form of advertising, verbal or otherwise, any statements which might imply that he or she is absorbing the tax, or paying the tax for the transient guest by an adjustment of prices, or furnishing lodging at the price including the tax or rebating the tax in any other manner.
(Ord. 89-20. Passed 4-18-89.)