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Sec. 16A-62. Hotels and motels.

Any person who keeps a public inn or motel, or lodging house of
more than ten bedrooms where transient guests are lodged for
pay, shall be deemed for the purpose of this section to be engaged
in the business of keeping a hotel. For the purpose of this section a
transient guest is one who puts up for less than one week at such
hotel, but such a house is no less a hotel because some of its guests
put up for longer periods than one week. For the privilege of
operating such business the license tax shall be twenty-five
dollars and where the gross receipts exceed two thousand dollars,
the tax shall be thirty cents on each one hundred dollars in
addition thereto.

The payment of the license tax provided by this section shall
not exempt the person paying such tax from the payment of a
restaurant or merchants license tax as provided in this chapter if
a restaurant, dining room or cigar stand is operated in connection
with the hotel. (4-7-69, § 40.)