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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 4579ORDINANCE NO. 4 5 7 9 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 5.26.010 OF THE BAKERSFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO HOTELS AND LODINGHOUSES BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield as follows: SECTION 1. Section 5.26.010 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: 5.26.010 Definitions. Whenever used in this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context, the words set out in this section shall have the following meanings: A. "Hotel" means any public or private hotel, inn, hostelry, bed and breakfast, house, motel, roominghouse or other lodging place within the city offering lodging, wherein the owner and operator thereof, for compensation, furnishes lodging to any transient as defined in subsection B. of this section. B. "Transient" means any person who, for any period of not more than thirty consecutive days, either at his or her own expense or at the expense of another, obtains lodging or use of any lodging space in any hotel as defined in subsection A. of this section, for which lodging or use of lodging space a charge is made. C. "Person" means any individual. For the purpose of this section and the Transient Lodging Tax, Bakersfield Municipal Code Sections 3.40.010 and 3.40.020 only, "person" does not mean partnership, corporation or association of any nature whatsoever. SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be posted in accordance with the provisions of the Bakersfield Municipal Code and shall become effective thirty (30) days from and after the date of its passage. 000-------- S:\COUNCIL\Ords\08-09 Ords\5.26.010amendHotels&Lodgin.doc April 23, 2009 Page 1 of 2 Pages o~gAKF9~ ~ r v o ORIGINA HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular meeting thereof held on MAY 0 6 2009 , by the following vote: (AYE$) NOES: ABSTAIN: ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBER CA4SON, BENHAM, WEIR COUCH, HANSON, SUL IL VAN, SCRIVNER COUNCILMEMBER I rj_ COUNCILMEMBER COUNCILMEMBER ~'11 r PAMELA A. McCARTHY, MMCG City Clerk and Ex Officio of the Council of the City of Bakersfield APPROVED: By: MAY 0 6 2009 HARVEY L. HALL, Mayd CITY OF BAKERSFIELD APPROVED AS TO FORM: VIRGINIA GENNARO City Attorney By: CHRISTINE K. IM Associate City Attorney CI:VI/Isc S:\COUNCIL\Ords\08-09 Ords\5.26.010amendHotels&Lodgin.doc April 23, 2009 L:> r Page 2 of 2 Pages ORIGINAL AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING DOCUMENTS STATE OF CALIFORNIA) ) ss. County of Kern ) PAMELA A. McCARTHY, being duly sworn, deposes and says: That she is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield; and that on the 7th day of Mav , 2009 she posted on the Bulletin Board at City Hall, a full, true and correct copy of the following: Ordinance No. 4579 , passed by the Bakersfield City Council at a meeting held on the 6th day of Mav. 2009 and entitled: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 5.26.010 OF THE BAKERSFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO HOTELS AND LODGINGHOUSES. PAMELA A. McCARTHY City Clerk and Ex Officio of the Council of the City of Bakersfield By:` ) -es DEPUTY City Clerk S ADOCUMENT T0RMSWOP.ORD.wpd ~gAKF9 O' 40 r Ll O ORIGINAL