§ 28-211 — Definitions

Sec. 28-211. - Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this division, shall have the same meanings as provided in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: Department means the department of administration and regulatory affairs. Director means the director of the department and the director's designees. Employee means any person who is directly employed in consideration of direct monetary wages. Hotel means any building or buildings in which the public may, for a consideration, obtain sleeping accommodations. The term shall include hotels, motels, courts, inns, rooming houses, or other buildings where rooms are furnished for a consideration as well as the parking lot and other common areas, but shall not include hospitals, sanitariums, nursing homes, tourist homes, houses, boarding homes as defined in section 28-451 of this Code or lodging facilities as defined in section 28-601 of this Code. Hotel operator means a person who owns, operates, manages or controls a hotel within the city. Human trafficking means: (1) Sex trafficking by way of the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act in which the commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion or in which the person induced to perform such act has not yet attained 18 years of age; or (2) Labor trafficking by way of the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of labor or services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. Occupant has the same meaning as provided in section 44-101 of this Code.

(Ord. No. 2020-319, § 2, 4-15-2020)