DEFINITIONS.

Los Angeles Municipal Code § 182.21

in effect

SEC. 182.21. DEFINITIONS. (Added by Ord. No. 188,610, Eff. 9/8/25, Oper. 12/1/25.) The following definitions shall apply to this article: A. “Adverse Employment Action” means an action that detrimentally and materially affects the terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, including but not limited to any act to discharge, reduce compensation, reduce work hours, alter established work schedules, increase workload, impose fees or charges, or change duties of a Hotel Worker. B. “City” means the City of Los Angeles. C. “Division” means the Office of Wage Standards of the Bureau of Contract Administration within the Department of Public Works. D. “Domestic Violence” means abuse committed against an adult or a minor who is a spouse, former spouse, cohabitant, former cohabitant, or person with whom the suspect has had a child or is having or has had a dating or engagement relationship. E. “Guest” means a registered guest of a Hotel, a person occupying a Guest Room with a registered guest, or a visitor invited to a Guest Room by a registered guest or other person occupying a Guest Room. F. “Guest Room” means any room, suite of rooms, dwelling unit, cottage, or bungalow intended to be used by a Guest of a Hotel for transient sleeping purposes. G. “Hotel” means an establishment containing 60 or more Guest Rooms that provides temporary lodging for payment in the form of overnight accommodations in Guest Rooms to transient patrons for periods of thirty consecutive calendar days or less, and may provide additional services, such as conference and meeting rooms, restaurants, bars, or recreation facilities available to Guests or to the general public. “Hotel” includes hotels, motor lodges, motels, apartment hotels, transient occupancy residential structures and extended-stay hotels that rent units (including units with kitchens) for fewer than thirty days, private residential clubs, tourist courts, and hostels that contain both dormitory-style accommodations and private Guest Rooms that may be reserved, meeting the definition set forth above. “Hotel” also includes any contracted, leased or sublet premises operated in conjunction with a hotel or that is used for the primary purpose of providing services at a hotel. Except as provided above, the term “Hotel” does not include corporate housing, rooming houses, boarding houses, single-room occupancy housing, or licensed bed and breakfast establishments within a single-unit residence. “Hotel” does not include a Short-Term Rental, as defined in Section 12.22 A.32. of this Code. H. “Hotel Employer” means any person who owns, controls, or operates a Hotel in the City, and includes any person or contractor who, in a managerial, supervisory, or confidential capacity, employs or directs Hotel Workers to provide services at a Hotel in conjunction with the Hotel’s purpose. I. “Hotel Worker” means any person whose primary place of employment is at one or more Hotels and who is employed directly by a Hotel Employer, or by a person who has contracted with the Hotel Employer, to provide services at a Hotel. “Hotel Worker” does not include a managerial, supervisory or confidential employee. J. “Human Trafficking” shall have the same meaning as set forth in California Penal Code Section 236.1. K. “Room Attendant” means a Hotel Worker whose principal duties are to clean and put in order Guest Rooms in a Hotel. L. “Violent or Threatening Conduct” means: (1) any conduct that involves the use of physical violence or that would reasonably be interpreted as conveying a threat of the use of physical violence, and includes, but is not limited to, rape, assault (including sexual assault), and battery (including sexual battery), as defined by the California Penal Code, as well as any threat or attempt to commit such an act; or (2) any sexual conduct, or solicitation to engage in sexual conduct, directed by a Guest at a Hotel Worker without the consent of the Hotel Worker and includes, but is not limited to, indecent exposure, as defined by the California Penal Code.

Source: City of Los Angeles, Charter and Codes (American Legal Publishing, codelibrary.amlegal.com)URL: https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/los_angeles/latest/lamc/0-0-0-429418Fetched: 10/24/2026