12-1692. Promotion of tourism and conventions; definitions.
12-1692
12-1692. Promotion of tourism and conventions; definitions.
As used in this act, the following words and phrases shall have the
meanings respectively ascribed to them herein:
(a) "Person" means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, joint
venture or other association of persons;
(b) "Hotel, motel or tourist court" means any structure or building
which contains rooms furnished for the purposes of providing lodging, which
may or may not also provide meals, entertainment or various other personal
services to transient guests, and which is kept, used, maintained,
advertised or held out to the public as a place where sleeping
accommodations are sought for pay or compensation by transient or permanent
guests and having more than two bedrooms furnished for the
accommodation of such guests;
(c) "Transient guest" means a person who occupies a room in a hotel,
motel or tourist court for not more than 28
consecutive
days;
(d) "Business" means any person engaged in the business of renting,
leasing or letting living quarters, sleeping accommodations, rooms or a
part thereof in connection with any motel, hotel or tourist court;
(e) "Convention and tourism promotion" means: (1) Activities to attract
visitors into the community through marketing efforts, including advertising,
directed to at least one of the five basic convention and tourism market
segments consisting of group tours, pleasure travelers, association meetings
and conventions, trade shows and corporate meetings and travel; and (2)
support of those activities and organizations which encourage
increased lodging facility occupancy; and
(f) "Accommodations broker" means any business which maintains an inventory
of two or more rooms in one or more locations which are offered for pay to a
person or persons for not more than 28 consecutive days.
History: L. 1975, ch. 490, § 1;
L. 1992, ch. 117, § 1;
L. 1997, ch. 185, § 2; July 1.