878.01 Definitions.
878.02 Permit required.
878.03 Application for hotel/motel permit, new and renewal.
878.04 Grounds for denial.
878.05 Objection, revocation and suspension of hotel/motel permit.
878.06 Appeals, hearing, and remedy process.
878.07 Authority to conduct inspections.
878.08 Transfer of hotel/motel permit not permitted.
878.09 Hotel/motel permit.
878.10 Severability.
878.99 Penalty.
As used in this chapter:
(a) "Hotel/motel" means any structure consisting of one or more buildings, with more than five sleeping rooms, that is kept, used, maintained, advertised, or held out to the public to be a place where sleeping accommodations are offered for pay to guests, including, but not limited to, such a structure denoted as a hotel, motel, motor hotel, lodge, motor lodge, bed and breakfast, or inn.
(b) "Hotel/motel operation" means the occupancy of any guestroom or use of any hotel/motel facility.
(c) "Guest" means any person that occupies a guestroom.
(d) "Guestroom" means a room offered to the public for a fee that contains, at a minimum, provisions for sleeping.
(e) "Owner" means a corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization and any other group acting as a unit, or a person who has legal title to any structure or premises with or without accompanying actual possession thereof, and shall include the duly authorized agent or attorney, a purchaser, devisee, fiduciary and any person having a vested or contingent interest in the premises in question.
(f) "Operator" means any person who works at a hotel/motel in a capacity to facilitate the offering of guestrooms to guests, including, but not limited to, front desk workers.
(g) "Manager" means the general manager, shift manager, or any person in any supervisory position at the hotel/motel.
(h) "Employee" means any person who earns qualifying wages, commissions or other type of compensation from the hotel/motel.
(i) "Calls for service" means any and all calls, including but not limited to those to law enforcement or the Fire Division that result in a request that a representative be dispatched or directed to the hotel/motel, when those responses:
(1) Allege evidence of criminal activity;
(2) Result in an arrest, charge or citation; or
(3) Find an imminent threat to safety of persons or property.
(j) "Calls for service ratio" means the number of calls for service divided by the number of rooms in service at the hotel/motel.
(k) "Director" means the City Manager or his/her authorized designee.
(Ord. 21-23. Passed 9-7-21.)
(a) No person shall engage in, conduct, or carry on, or permit to be engaged in, conducted or carried on, in or upon any premises in the City, the operation of a hotel/motel without obtaining a permit in accordance with this chapter.
(b) An application for a new permit may be submitted at any time to the Director. If the application is approved and a permit is issued, the permit shall take effect on the day of issuance, and shall expire on December 31st of the year in which it was issued.
(c) A permit to operate a hotel/motel shall be renewed by the applicant at the end of each calendar year. The deadline for submitting an application for renewal shall be the first Monday of November of the year in which the permit is set to expire. Failure to renew shall result in expiration on December 31st. If a permit is successfully renewed, it shall be in effect for one calendar year, beginning on January 1st and expiring on December 31st of the same year.
(Ord. 21-23. Passed 9-7-21.)
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