For the purposes of this chapter the term "lodging house" shall be deemed to be and is declared to include any building in which sleeping rooms or apartments are or may be let or hired to six or more individuals for one or more nights, whether then compensation therefore be paid in money, labor, merchandise or otherwise, and includes hotels and apartment houses where cooking is not done in any room or apartment except in the general kitchen used and operated in connection with the business of such lodging house, hotel or apartment house. (Ord. 9517 § 1 (part), 1995: prior code § 6700)