17.04.110“Hotel means any building or portion thereof designed or used, or containing six or more guest rooms or suites of rooms, but not including any institutions in which human beings are housed or detained under legal restraint.” source
17.04.110“Dwelling unit means one or more rooms and a kitchen designed for occupancy by one family for living and sleeping purposes.” source
Citation: Title 17 Chapter 17.04 General Provisions and Definitions, section 17.04.110 (prior code section 13.01.009). Chapter 3.28 Transient Occupancy Tax exists but its section text could not be retrieved.
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