3.16.020(A)“"Hotel" means any structure, or any portion of any structure, which is occupied, or intended or designed for occupancy, by transients for dwelling, lodging or sleeping purposes, and shall include any hotel, inn, tourist home or house, motel, studio hotel, bachelor hotel, lodginghouse, roominghouse, apartment house, dormitory, public or private club, mobile home park unless such occupancy in the mobile home park is for any period of more than thirty days.” source
Title 18 chapter list“Chapter 18.08 - Land Use Tables; Chapter 18.60 - Specific Land Use Standards; Chapter 18.96 - Definition of Land Uses; Chapter 18.98 - Definition of Terms.” source
Citation: Chapter 3.16 Uniform Transient Room Tax (Ord. 248-74 sec. 1 (part), 1974: prior code sec. 14A-1). No short-term rental chapter exists in Title 5 or Title 18.
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