Article VI. Motels and Hotels
5.08.370 Definitions.
(1) “Hotel” shall mean any structure, or portion of a structure, including any lodging house, rooming house, dormitory, Turkish bath, bachelor hotel, studio hotel, public club, or private club, containing four or more guest rooms and which is occupied, or is intended or designed for occupation, by six or more guests, whether rent is paid in money, goods, labor, or otherwise. “Hotel” shall not include any jail, hospital, asylum, sanitation, orphanage, prison, or detention or other building in which human beings are housed or detained under legal restraint.
(2) “Motel” shall mean a building of not more than one story containing four or more guest rooms or apartments, or a combination thereof, each of which has a separate individual entrance leading directly from the outside of the building and is designed, used, or intended wholly or in part for the accommodation of transients traveling by automobile. (Ord. 505 § 5. 2002 Code § 6-18.1).