§ 31-66. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases are, for the purposes of this article (except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning), defined as follows:

Alternate collection/reporting period shall mean a period of a day or days other than the regular calendar months. Such periods are approved by the city finance director upon request by the hotel manager, operator, or person in control, or imposed by the city finance director upon his finding that collections are at risk of loss if collections accumulated for the full calendar month [are] in the possession of the hotel owner, operator, manager, or person in control.

Consideration shall mean the price of, or value received for, the right to use a sleeping room, bed, or dormitory space or other sleeping facility in a hotel, and includes the price of conveniences customarily provided in connection with sleeping accommodations, including mattress, sheets, bedspreads, pillows, pillow cases, bed frames, air conditioning, electricity, lighting, water, soap, towels, wash cloths, toilet tissue, shower or bath facilities, lavatory, chairs, trash receptacles, plus any other goods or services which are not ordinarily subject to sales tax. The consideration paid for a sleeping room or facility shall not include the price of food served, nor the price of personal services rendered to the occupant which are unrelated to cleaning and readying a room for occupancy, nor any sales tax, nor occupancy tax assessed by other governmental agencies, provided that these charges are stated separately on the folio or invoice of the occupant. Charges not stated separately shall be presumed to be part of the consideration paid for occupancy of a sleeping room or sleeping facility, and shall be taxed under this article.

Hotel shall mean any building or complex of buildings, trailer, converted railroad pullman car, or any other facility in which the public may, for a consideration, obtain sleeping accommodations. The term shall include hotels, motels, tourist homes, houses or courts, lodging houses, inns, rooming houses, trailer houses, trailer motels, parked railroad pullman cars used for sleeping accommodations and not involving the transportation of travelers, dormitory where bed space is rented, apartments not occupied by permanent residents, and all other facilities where rooms or sleeping facilities or space are furnished for a consideration. The term hotel does not include hospitals, sanitariums or nursing homes.

Monthly collection/reporting period shall mean the regular calendar months of the year.

Occupancy shall mean the use or possession of, or the exclusive right to the use or possession of a sleeping room or sleeping facility in a hotel.

Occupant shall mean any individual, corporation, governmental agency, partnership, or association that has paid a consideration for the exclusive right to use a sleeping room or sleeping facility in a hotel.

Permanent resident shall mean any occupant who has occupied or has paid for the exclusive right to occupy a particular sleeping room or rooms or sleeping facility in a hotel for at least thirty (30) consecutive days; however, one change of sleeping rooms or facility during the first thirty (30) days of occupancy in the hotel shall not terminate the status of the permanent resident. Any person who does not fully prepay for the first thirty (30) days is not a permanent resident during the first thirty (30) days of occupancy.

(Ord. No. 67104, 5-12-88)