§ 6.12.975. Transient lodging establishment.

(a) For each resort hotel, hotel, motel, time-share project or other similar structure or facility, the license fee shall be twenty-five dollars semiannually for the first eight guest rooms; three dollars per room semiannually for nine to three hundred rooms; where total rooms are more than three hundred, nine hundred dollars semiannually plus two dollars per room semiannually for each room in addition to the first three hundred rooms.

(b)

A resort hotel is defined in Section 8.04.010(X) of this code.

(c)

A hotel, not a resort hotel, is distinguished from a motel in that a hotel contains guest sleeping rooms in a single or connected structure, access to which is controlled through a foyer and hallways, rooms are rented on a day to day basis and hotels do not contain provisions for cooking in individual rooms or suites.

(d)

A motel is defined as being composed of more than one structure providing two or more sleeping rooms rented on a day to day basis with access doors opening to the outside.

(1)

In order to obtain and maintain a business license for the operation of a transient lodging establishment motel as defined in subsection (d) the applicant or licensee must designate a person who will act as the manager and provide proof to the department that the manager of the motel has completed the safe communities training program offered by Clark County. In the event the manager is a partnership, corporation, or other legal business entity, this requirement may be satisfied by providing proof to the department that one or more of the principal owners or officers of the business entity have completed the safe communities training program. In the event the manager is a management company, the management company shall designate an employee or employees primarily responsible for the day to day operations of the motel, including such activities as reservation transactions, maintaining accounting records, and overseeing building and grounds maintenance to attend the safe communities training program. The management company shall provide proof that the designated employee, or the designated employee's supervisor or manager has completed the safe communities training program.

(2)

New hired managers who have not previously completed the required safe communities training program, and are required pursuant to subsection (5) to complete the training, shall be required to complete such program within one hundred eighty days of the date of hire.

(3)

A certificate of completion of the safe communities training program shall be maintained on the premises of each motel containing proof that the current manager, designated employee, or the designated employee's manager or supervisor, as applicable, has completed the safe communities training program or evidence that the current manager has been employed in that capacity for fewer than one hundred eighty days. If a manager or designated employee is no longer employed by the motel, the motel must notify the department within two weeks and provide the name of a new manager or designated employee.

(4)

All transient lodging applicants and licensees for motels as of the effective date of the ordinance codified in this section shall have one hundred eighty days from the effective date of the ordinance to provide proof to the department that they are in compliance with the safe communities training program requirement. The department may extend the one-hundred-eighty-day compliance period up to an additional one hundred eighty days, upon notification from Clark County that the available safe communities training program training programs offered could not accommodate the number of managers requiring certification within the one-hundred-eighty-day time period for compliance.

(5)

A manager is defined as a licensee, an employee of a licensee, a manager, or an employee of a management company who has primary responsibility for the day to day operations of a motel, including such activities as reservation transactions, maintaining accounting records, and overseeing building and grounds maintenance.

(6)

The "safe communities training program" is defined as a program offered by Clark County to educate motel applicants and reduce crime on transient lodging properties.

(e)

A time-share facility or project is defined in Chapter 6.115 of this title.

(f)

In addition to the above semiannual license fees, if a transient lodging establishment is renting to transient guests as that term is defined in Chapter 4.08 of this code, then taxes must also be charged according to the rates set forth in Chapters 4.08, 4.09 and 4.10 of this code.

(Ord. 2422 § 3 (part), 1999)

(Ord. No. 4502, § 1, 7-5-2017)