"Hotel" means one or more buildings in which there are guestrooms where transient lodging, with or without meals, is provided to overnight guests for a period of twenty-eight or fewer consecutive days, for compensation, with access provided through a common entrance, lobby or hallway, and where no provision is made for cooking in any individual room or suite; provided, that the "hotel" may include a building in which there is one dwelling unit for nontransient use of a resident manager; but the term "hotel" shall not include jails, hospitals, asylums, sanitariums, orphanages, prisons, detention homes and similar buildings where persons are housed or detained under legal restraint or for treatment.
(Ord. 85-11-963 § 2: prior code § 19.08.543 (Ord. 557 § 105(H) (part), 1964))