7.03.030 Definitions

"Hotel" means a commercial establishment offering lodging to travelers and sometimes to permanent residents, and often having restaurants, meeting rooms, stores, etc., that are available to the general public.

"Motel" means a hotel providing travelers with lodging and free parking facilities, typically a roadside hotel having rooms adjacent to an outside parking area.

"Occupancy" means the use or possession, or the right to the use or possession, of any room or rooms in a hotel or motel for any purpose.

"Room" means any room in a hotel or motel for the use of which the hotel or motel receives a sum of currency for the use and occupancy of the room.

"Fee" means the Occupancy Fee.

"Person" means any organization, whether it be a sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, trust, estate, unincorporated association, corporation, or government or any part, division, or agency of any of the foregoing, and an individual or group of individuals.