“Accommodations” means a structure or portion of a structure which is occupied or intended for occupancy by transients for dwelling, lodging, or sleeping purposes. This term includes hotels, motels, tourist homes, houses or courts, lodges, lodging houses, inns, rooming-houses, hostels, trailers, bed and breakfasts, dormitories, charter boats, cabins, tents, or other temporary structures. This term does not include any hospital, medical clinic, or nursing home.

“Buyer” or “purchaser” means a person who acquires an interest in real or personal property, or the right to use real or personal property, or who acquires services for consideration.

“Charitable organization” means an organization having as its primary purpose relief of the poor and distressed or of the underprivileged.

“Rental” means permitting the use or occupancy of real or personal property for consideration other than by means of a capital lease.

“Residential unit” means one or more rooms and a single kitchen in a dwelling designed as a unit for occupancy by not more than one family for living or sleeping purposes.

“Residential uses” means for use within a residential unit.

“Sale” means a transfer or exchange of any property of every kind and description, or the right to use or occupy such property, for consideration.

“Sales price” or “charge” means the consideration, whether money, credit, or other property or interest in property, without deduction for delivery costs, taxes, or any other expense. The receipt of property or an interest in property as consideration, the “sales price” or “charge” shall be based on the fair market value of the property or interest in property.

“Seller” or “operator” means a person, whether acting as a principal, agent, or broker, who sells, leases, or rents real or personal property or provides services to another for consideration.

“Transient” means a person who occupies or rents and has available for the person’s own occupancy or occupancy by any other person any type of accommodation for fewer than 30 consecutive days. An employee who occupies or has available for fewer than 30 days a suite, room or rooms rented or leased for more than 30 consecutive days by an employer for use on a rotating basis by employees is not a transient. [Ord. 00-06 §2; Ord. 96-19 §3, 1996. Formerly §3.30.280].