Section 75-33 MOTEL EXCISE TAX FOR TRANSIENTS

Section 75-33 MOTEL EXCISE TAX FOR TRANSIENTS - DEFINITIONS.

For the purposes of this Article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

MOTEL - Any public or private hotel, inn, apartment, hotel, hostelry, tourist home or house, bed and breakfast home or house, motel, rooming house, travel campground or other lodging place within the Town of Front Royal with the capacity for four (4) or more transient lodgers at any one (1) time, offering lodging for compensation to any transient as defined herein.

(Ord. No. 11-95 Added Travel Campground 9-11-95 )

OPERATOR - Includes any person, partnership, corporate entity, those acting in a representative capacity thereof and their successors and assigns, who run, manage, own or otherwise control a motel in the Town of Front Royal.

ROOM RENTAL - The total charge made by any motel for lodging and/or space furnished to any transient.

TOWN - The Town of Front Royal, Virginia.

TRANSIENT - Any person who for any period of less than thirty (30) consecutive days, whether at his own expense or at the expense of another, obtains lodging or the use of any space in a motel.

TREASURER - The Treasurer of the Town of Front Royal, Virginia, or his designated agent.