§ 30-771. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Hotel or motel means a building containing one or more individual sleeping rooms or suites having each a private bath attached thereto and rented to a person or persons for the purpose of providing overnight lodging facilities to the general public for compensation with or without meals and includes motels, motor courts, tourist courts, motor lodges, bed and breakfast establishments and time-share units if a charge or maintenance fee is assessed for the use of a room or suite. The term "hotel" or "motel" shall not include roominghouses, if the minimum length of stay in the roominghouse is 30 days or more, or bed and breakfast establishments which contain two or fewer sleeping rooms or suites rented to the general public.

Operator of a hotel or motel means the person in whose name the occupational license for the hotel or motel is issued.

Services offered by a hotel or motel means all items necessary for the use of a hotel or motel room required to be purchased in order to use or rent a room. Services shall not include food and beverages or other things sold at the hotel or motel unless the purchase of the food, beverages or other items is a prerequisite to the use of the hotel or motel room.

(Code 1956, § 29B-2)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.