2026-24 Ordinance Amending City Code Chapter 51.5 Hotel Use Tax

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ORDINANCE NO. 1a•�ab - ay ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY CODE -CHAPTER 51.5- -HOTEL USE TAX- BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS: Section 1. That Chapter 51.5 of the City Code of the City of Decatur, Illinois be, and the same is hereby modified and amended by amending Sections 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9, so that Sections 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9 as so modified and amended, shall provide as follows: Section 1. DEFINITIONS. The words and phrases used in this Chapter shall have their normal and customary meanings except as otherwise defined in this Section. (1) "Facilitator"means any person who provides a means through which a person,owner, operator,or operator's agent may offer a hotel room, or motel room or a short term residential unit for rent, regardless of whether the rental or leasing charge is transferred through or processed by such facilitator, or by a separate entity. (2) "Hotel"means any building or structure in which the public may, for a consideration, obtain living quarters, or sleeping or housekeeping accommodations in which ten or more rooms, apartments or suites are available for such use, and includes inns, motels, tourist homes or courts, lodging houses, rooming houses, and apartment houses. (3) "Operator" or "Owner" means any person having an ownership interest in, or conducting the operation of, a hotel or motel room, or receiving the consideration for the rental of such hotel or motel room or short-term residential unit. (4) "Permanent resident" means any person who occupied or has the right to occupy any room or rooms in a hotel for not fewer than thirty consecutive days.