3.24.020“any person who exercises occupancy or is entitled to occupancy by reason of concession, permit, right of access, license, timeshare arrangement or ownership or agreement, or other agreement of whatever nature, for a period of thirty consecutive calendar days or less, counting portions of calendar days as full days.” source
3.24.020“except any private dwelling house or other individually owned single-family dwelling house unit rented only occasionally (infrequently) and incidentally to the normal occupancy by the owner or his family.” source
Citation: Chapter 3.24 Transient Occupancy Tax, section 3.24.020 definitions. Ordinance numbers not shown on the section page.
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