12/10/07 Common Council Agenda and Packet

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guest or visitor. Calls for service include any self initiated activity and/or investigation based on the observation(s) of an emergency services representative. Calls for services by Code Enforcement shall include only those calls relating to an immediate threat to health or safety. Calls for service shall be measured by one event or occurrence at a hotel. Multiple calls for one discrete event shall count as one call for service. (2) Drug related arrests include but are not limited to those that involve the manufacture, cultivation, importation into the state, transportation, possession, possession for sale, sale, furnishing, administering, or giving away or providing a place to use or fortification of a place involving any illegal or controlled drug, narcotic or drug paraphernalia. (3) Guest shall mean any registered hotel guest or any other visitor who occupies a guestroom. (4) Guestroom means a sleeping room in a hotel designed and intended to be used as lodging for transient visitors to the city as documented by the city building official or his designee. (S) Hotel means any building or group of buildings or facility containing six or more guestrooms any of which is occupied or intended or designed for occupancy by transients for lodging or sleeping purposes for thirty days or less and is held out as such to the public, even if some rooms are available for lodging, sleeping, occupancy or rental for a term of more than thirty (30) days.. Hotel shall include motels. Hotel does not mean any hospital, convalescent home, or sanitarium. (6) Hotel operation means the occupancy of any guestroom or use of any hotel regardless of compensation or remuneration. (7) Operator means any person who is the proprietor of any hotel whether in the capacity of owner, lessee, receiver, sub - lessee, franchisee, mortgagee in possession, manager, or agent of any of the aforementioned who offers and accepts payment for rooms, guestrooms, sleeping accommodations, or board and lodging and retains the right of access to and control of the dwelling unit. (8) Person shall mean any natural person, firm, partnership, corporation, receiver, trustee, estate trust, business trust, organization or association. (9) Prostitution- related arrests include but are not limited to those that involve prostitution or prostitution related crimes such as pimping or pandering in violation of Section 13 -75.5 of the City of South Bend Municipal Code. (10) Residential rental unit means an apartment house, lodging house, or dwelling that is not owner occupied. -2-