For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
DIRECTOR. The City's Director of Finance and Administrative Services.
HOTEL. Any public or private hotel, inn, hostelry, tourist home or house, motel, rooming house or other lodging place within the city offering lodging, wherein the owner and operator thereof, for compensation, furnishes lodging to any TRANSIENT as defined in this section.
OPERATOR. The person who is proprietor of hotel, whether in the capacity of owner, lessee, sublessee, mortgagee in possession, licensee or any other capacity. Where the operator performs his functions through a managing agent of any type or character other than an employee, the managing agent shall also be deemed an operator for the purposes of this subchapter and shall have the same duties and liabilities as his principal. Compliance with the provisions of this subchapter by either the principal or the managing agent shall, however, be considered to be compliance by both.
PERMANENT RESIDENT. A person who, as of a given date, has occupied or has had the right to occupy a room or rooms in a particular hotel, as defined in this section, for 30 consecutive days next preceding such date.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization, joint stock company, corporation, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, trustee, syndicate or any other group or combination acting as a unit.
ROOM RENTAL. The total charge made by any such hotel for lodging and/or lodging space furnished any such transient. If the charge made by such hotel to such transient includes any charge for services or accommodations in addition to that of lodging, and/or the use of lodging space, then such portion of the total charge as represents only room and/or lodging space rental shall be distinctly set out and billed to the transient by such hotel as a separate item.
TRANSIENT. Any person who, for a period of not more than 30 consecutive days, or less, either at his own expense or at the expense of another, obtains lodging or the use of any lodging space in any hotel as defined in division (A) of this section, for which lodging or use of lodging space a charge is made.
('64 Code, § 21-11) (Ord. 251, passed 8-24-64; Am. Ord. 889, passed 6-11-98)