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<br /> For the purpose of this chapter a hotel shall mean every building or structure kept, used
<br /> hire. in periods of less than one week, in which four or more rooms are used for sleeping
<br /> accommodation of guests.
<br /> Unless otherwise provided or unless the context clearly requires a different meaning, for
<br /> purposes of this chapter the following terms shall have the meaning given to them herein:
<br /> A. "Overnight lodging facility"means any facility such as a hotel, motel,
<br /> condominium,resort, or any other facility or place offering three or more lodging units to
<br /> travelers and transient guests for a period of less than thirty days.
<br /> B. "Lodging unit"means one self-contained unit designated by number, letter or
<br /> some other method of identification.
<br /> C. "Person" means individual, firm,partnership, corporation, company, association
<br /> or joint stock association, and the legal successor thereof.
<br /> D. A person knows or acts knowingly or with knowledge when he or she is aware of
<br /> a fact. circumstance or result which is described by law as being a violation, whether or
<br /> not the person is aware that the fact, circumstance or result is a violation. If a person has
<br /> information which would lead a reasonable person in the same situation to believe that
<br /> facts exist which are described by law as being a violation, it is permitted but not required
<br /> to find that he or she acted with knowledge.
<br /> Section 3: Repealer. Chapter 25, Section 2 of Ordinance No. 295-74 (EMC 5.100.020),
<br /> is hereby repealed.
<br /> Section 4: Chapter 25, Section 3 of Ordinance No. 295-74 (EMC 5.100.030),which
<br /> reads as follows:
<br /> License required.
<br /> No person, firm or corporation shall keep, conduct, maintain, manage or operate or cause
<br /> to be conducted, managed,maintained or operated either as owner, lessee, manager or
<br /> agent, or in any other capacity, any hotel,rooming house, lodging house, apartment house
<br /> or tenement house as herein defined,where lodgings are furnished to guests within the
<br /> city without first having obtained from the city clerk of the city a license to do so.
<br /> Be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
<br /> License required.
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<br /> or cause to be conducted, managed, maintained or operated either as owner, lessee,
<br /> manager or agent, or in any other capacity, any hotel, rooming house, lodging house,
<br /> apartment house or tenement house as herein defined, where lodgings are furnished to
<br /> guests within the city without first having obtained from the city clerk of the city a
<br /> license to do it is unlawful for any person to keep, conduct, maintain, manage or
<br /> operate or cause to be conducted,managed,maintained or operated either as owner,
<br /> lessee, manager or agent, or in any other capacity, an overnight lodging facility without
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