Definitions herein shall supplement all definitions in Chapters 1 and 3 of this E. H. Code and the development code of this jurisdiction. Except as otherwise provided in this Section, all terms used in this Article which are defined in the Health and Safety Code Division 13, Part 1.5 and the Administrative Code Title 25, Division 1, Chapter 1, and the applicable articles adopted pursuant thereto, are used in this Article as so defined, unless from the context thereof, it clearly appears that a different meaning is intended.
APARTMENT. A dwelling unit which is rented or offered for rent as a residence and shall not include a dwelling unit intended for the accommodation of transients.
APARTMENT HOUSE. Any building or portion thereof containing three or more apartments or dwelling units.
DWELLING UNIT. One or more habitable rooms which are occupied or which are intended to be, or designed to be, occupied by one family with facilities for living, sleeping, eating and cooking.
GUEST ROOM. Any room or suite of rooms designed, used, and intended for the accommodation of a person, family, or party.
HOTEL. Any structure, or any portion of a structure, including any lodging house, boarding house, rooming house, dormitory, Turkish bath, bachelor hotel, studio hotel, public club, or private club, containing three or more resident guest rooms and which is occupied or is intended or designed for occupation by three or more guests, whether rent is paid in money, goods, labor, or otherwise. It does not include any jail, hospital asylum, sanitarium, orphanage, prison, or other building in which human beings are housed and detained under legal restraint.
MOTEL. A building or buildings each containing one or more guest rooms or dwelling units or combinations thereof designed, used, and intended wholly or in part, for the accommodation of transients. MOTEL also includes any auto court, resort, and “bed and breakfast” lodging.
MULTIPLE APARTMENTS. Three or more apartments located on the same premises and/or parcel.
PREMISES. Include all buildings located on contiguous parcels of land under common ownership.
(Ord. 3105, passed - -1986)