The following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, and are hereby defined as follows:
ALLEGED: | Nuisance Incidents and Aggravated Nuisance Incidents are those incidents where a crime that would constitute a nuisance incident or aggravated nuisance incident has been reported and verified but a perpetrator has not been charged. |
EXTENDED STAY HOTEL: | A hotel which offers services and facilities designed to appeal to longer-term guests, such as laundry and kitchen facilities, and may quote rates on a weekly or monthly basis. |
GUEST: | A person who exercises occupancy or is entitled to occupancy in a hotel by reason of concession, permit, right of access, license or other agreement. |
HEARING OFFICER: | For the purposes of this Chapter 24 only, Hearing Officer means either (i) a Village administrative hearing officer appointed pursuant to Chapter 8 of Title 6 of this Code; or (ii) the Village Manager or their designee. |
HOTEL: | Any public or private space or structure, including but not limited to, any inn, hostelry, tourist home, motel, lodging house or motel rooming house offering space for sleeping or overnight accommodations in exchange for rent. Hotel includes the parking lot and other common areas of the hotel. Hotel does not include living accommodations provided at any governmental or nonprofit institution in connection with the functions of that institution. |
IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT: | A government issued document that contains the name, date of birth, description, and picture of a person. |
OCCUPANCY: | The use or possession, or the right to the use or possession, of any room in any hotel or extended stay hotel. |
OPERATOR: | The proprietor of the hotel or extended stay hotel, or any other person who has the right to rent rooms within the hotel or extended stay hotel, whether in the capacity of owner, manager, lessee, mortgagee in possession, licensee, employee or in any other capacity. |
RECORD: | Written documentation of information about a guest. A record may be maintained electronically, in a book or on cards. |
RENT: | The consideration charged, whether or not received, for the occupancy of a room in a hotel valued in money, whether to be received in money, goods, labor or otherwise, including all receipts, cash, credits and property and services of any kind or nature. |
RESERVATION: | A request to hold a room for a potential guest that includes the following information and is documented in writing: (i) the potential guest’s name and contact information; and (ii) the date and time when the contact was made. |
ROOM: | Any portion of a hotel or extended stay hotel, which is designed, used or intended for occupancy by a person for temporary lodging or sleeping purposes. |
VEHICLE: | Any car, truck, trailer, motorcycle, or other machinery used for transporting people or goods and is normally required to be registered with a state in order to be legally operated or towed on a public roadway. |
VISITOR: | A person, who is not a guest, who is on the premises of a hotel or extended stay hotel at the invitation of a guest, but without the express permission of the operator of the hotel or extended stay hotel. (Ord. 22-04, 1-17-2022; amd. Ord. 22-26, 9-12-2022) |