§ 21-1. Definitions.

(a)

Generally. For the purposes of this chapter, certain words and phrases shall have the meanings set out in this section, except in cases where the context clearly indicates a different meaning.

(b)

Lodging unit means living and sleeping quarters for a person or persons.

(c)

Minor means an individual less than eighteen (18) years of age.

(d)

Person means any individual, firm, owner, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, and unincorporated association governmental body, municipal corporation, executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, agent, occupant or other legal entity.

(e)

Hotel and motel means any building, structure or place containing ten (10) or more lodging units wherein transient guests are lodged for compensation on a daily or weekly basis.

(f)

Transient guest is one who stays for less than thirty (30) days at a hotel or motel.

(g)

Law enforcement personnel means any law enforcement officer, fire marshal or any of his assistants, fire inspector, or sworn special conservator of the peace employed by the city or health department.

(h)

Records mean the name and home address of each guest or person renting or occupying a room, including adults and minors, kept electronically or in a book/register inscribed with ink or indelible pencil.

(i)

Extended stay hotel means a building or group of buildings containing sleeping accommodations for ten (10) or more persons not members of a resident family and used for temporary occupancy of transients and containing cooking facilities in more than fifty (50) percent of the individual units, and from which ingress and egress is made to rooms from individual outside entrances.

(Ord. No. 6950-13, § 1)

(Ord. No. 6950-13, § 1)