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ADDITIONS AND DELETIONS <br /> CHAPTER 51.5 <br /> HOTEL USE TAX <br /> (Adopted, Ordinance 2015-65, December 7, 2015) <br /> Effective Date January 1, 2016 <br /> Section 1. DEFINITIONS. The words and phrases used in this Chapter shall have their <br /> normal and customary meanings except as otherwise defined in this Section. <br /> (1) "Facilitator"means any person who provides a means through which a person, owner, <br /> operator, or operator's agent may offer a hotel room, or motel room or a short term residential unit <br /> for rent, regardless of whether the rental or leasing charge is transferred through or processed by <br /> such facilitator, or by a separate entity. <br /> (44(2) "Hotel" means any building or structure in which the public may, for a <br /> consideration, obtain living quarters, or sleeping or housekeeping accommodations in which ten <br /> or more rooms, apartments or suites are available for such use, and includes inns, motels, tourist <br /> homes or courts, lodging houses, rooming houses, and apartment houses. <br /> (3) "Operator" or "Owner" means any person having an ownership interest in, or <br /> conducting the operation of, a hotel or motel room, or receiving the consideration for the rental of <br /> such hotel or motel room or short-term residential unit. <br />