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ORDINANCE NO.
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO AMENDING SAN
BERNARDINO MUNICIPAL CODE SECTIONS 3.52.020.A. AND 3.52.020.F. AND
ADDING SECTION 3.52.020.G. RELATING TO TRANSIENT OCCUPANCY TAX.
THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO
DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
San Bernardino Municipal Code Section
3.52.020.A. is hereby amended to read as follows:
"A. "Hotel" means any structure, or any portion of any
structure which is occupied or intended or designed for occupancy
by transients for lodging or sleeping purposes, and includes any
hotel, inn, tourist home or house, motel, studio hotel, bachelor
hotel, lodginghouse, roominghouse, dormitory, public or private
club, mobile home or house trailer located outside a mobile home
park for occupancy on a transient basis for a period of ninety
days or less unless the occupant is an employee of the owner or
operator of the mobile home or trailer, or other similar structure
or portion thereof."
SECTION 2.
San Bernardino Municipal Code Section
3.52.020.F. is hereby amended to read as follows:
"F. 'Transient' means any person who exercises occupancy or
is entitled to occupancy by reason of concession, permit, right of
access, license or other agreement, for a period of ninety
consecutive calendar days or less, counting portions of calendar
days as full days, and to any person who so occupies premises
intended for transient occupancy on a temporary basis for more
than ninety days without contracting for occupancy on a permanent
basis.
Any such person so occupying space in a hotel or motel
shall be deemed to be a transient without regard to the ninety-
DAB/ses/Transien.ord
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days period, unless there is an agreement in writing between the
operator and the occupant providing for a permanent occupancy. In
determining whether a person is a transient, uninterrupted periods
of time extending both prior and subsequent to the effective date
of the ordinance codified in this chapter may be considered. Each
occupant of a hotel or motel as defined in the City of San
Bernardino Development Code shall be deemed to be a transient, for
purposes of this chapter, unless the hotel or motel is authorized
to have permanent residents. Each occupant of any such hotel or
motel shall be deemed a transient, for purposes of this chapter,
regardless of the period of continuous occupancy until an
agreement is entered into between the operator and the occupant
providing for permanent tenancy."
SECTION 3. Subsection G. is hereby added to Section
3.52.020 of the San Bernardino Municipal Code to read as follows:
"G. 'Permanent' in regard to tenancy and residents shall be
deemed to apply to those tenancies and residents wherein tenancy
is on the basis of an agreement in writing for occupancy on a
month-to-month or week-to-week basis, or for any definite period
of time, provided that in any event 'permanent' shall not include
the first ninety days of occupancy in any motel, hotel or motor
hotel which rents more than one-half of its rooms or dwelling
units at a daily or weekly rate."
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AN ORDINANCE...RELATING TO TRANSIENT OCCUPANCY TAX.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was duly
4 adopted by the Mayor and Common Council of the City of San
5 Bernardino at a regular meeting thereof, held on the 16th
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day of September
, 1991, by the following vote, to wit:
Council Members:
ESTRADA
REILLY
HERNANDEZ
MAUDSLEY
MINOR
POPE-LUDLAM
MILLER
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The foregoing ordinance is hereby approved
/ftfiL day
of September, 1991.
Approved as to form
and legal content:
JAMES F. PENMAN,
City Attorney
By: /J,/W/Ln4~~_ /- .-/
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August 29, 1991