As used in this chapter, "multiple dwelling" means:
(a) A building occupied for permanent residential purposes by more than two families and in which the rooms are occupied in apartments, suites or groups, each comprising a dwelling unit, and shall include, without limitation thereto, apartment houses, apartment hotels, studio apartments, bachelor apartments, duplex apartments, kitchenette apartments or similar structures consisting of more than one building which are under common ownership, lease or management and which are occupied by one or two families; and
(b) A building occupied transiently as a temporary abode of individuals or families with or without meals and in which, as a rule, the rooms are occupied singly and not as dwelling units, and shall include, among others, hotels, lodging houses, rooming houses, boarding houses, tourist homes, motels, club houses with sleeping accommodations, fraternity houses, sorority houses, dormitories, convents, monasteries and school and college buildings containing sleeping accommodations. (Ord. 1975-37. Passed 7-24-75.)