(a) "Hosting Platform" means a person or entity that facilitates the booking of a short-term rental unit. "Facilitate" includes, but is not limited to, the act of allowing an operator to list or advertise, typically for a charge or fee, the short-term rental unit on an internet website, in a print publication, or through another forum provided or maintained by the hosting platform.
(b) "Operator" means the person offering a short-term rental unit, whether as the owner, lessee, or otherwise.
(c) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association or cooperative, or any other legal entity.
(d) "Short-Term Rental Unit" means a dwelling unit, a portion of a dwelling unit, or any other structure that is intended for occupancy for dwelling, lodging or sleeping and which is offered for consideration for a period of up to 30 consecutive calendar days and which is advertised on a hosting platform. Short-term rental units shall not include dwelling units facilities licensed by the state as health care facilities, hotels, inns, motels, bed and breakfasts properly approved by the City of Toledo or campgrounds; or dwelling units rented according to a written month-to-month lease.
(Ord. 267-21. Passed 12-7-21.)