A. “Calls for service” includes but is not limited to any and all calls to emergency services, (police, fire, medical) that result in a representative being dispatched or directed to the hotel/motel. This shall include any calls for service within the surrounding neighborhood that, through information or investigation, can be traced to the hotel/motel staff and/or registered guest(s) and/or visitor(s). “Calls for service” includes any self-initiated activity and/or investigation based on the observation(s) of an emergency services representative.

B. “Drug-related arrests” include, but are not limited to, those that involve the manufacture, cultivation, importation into the state, transportation, possession, possession for sale, sale, furnishing, administering, or giving away, or providing a place to use or fortification of a place involving, any controlled drug, narcotic or drug paraphernalia.

C. “Guest” shall mean any Person that occupies a guestroom.

D. “Guestroom” shall mean a sleeping room in a hotel/motel designed and intended to be used as lodging as documented by the City Building Official or his designee.

E. “Guestroom minimum requirements” shall mean those requirements as set forth in Chapter 15.20 CVMC.

F. “Hotel/motel” means any building or group of buildings or facility, containing six or more guestrooms, which is occupied or intended or designed for occupancy by guests for lodging or sleeping purposes and is held out as such to the public. “Hotel/motel” does not mean any hospital, convalescent home or sanitarium.

G. “Hotel/motel operation” means the occupancy of any guestroom or use of any hotel/motel facility regardless of compensation or remuneration.

H. “Kitchen” shall mean a discrete area completely separate from the bathroom and toilet room, containing a sink, refrigerator, and cooking appliance.

I. “Manager” means any Person who, in connection with the activities of a hotel/motel, manages the business’s operations, including but not limited to the collection of rental charges, issuing of keys, direction of maintenance Personnel, assigning of rooms to guests, and handling guest affairs and overseeing security. The term shall also include resident manager and assistant manager.

J. “Operator” means any Person who is the proprietor of any hotel/motel, whether in the capacity of Owner, lessee, receiver, sublessee, franchisee, mortgagee in possession, manager or agent of any of the aforementioned, who offers and accepts payment for rooms, guestrooms, sleeping accommodations, or board and lodging, and retains the right of access to, and control of, the Dwelling Unit.

K. “Owner” shall mean any Person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation, which is the record Owner of real property as listed on the last equalized assessment roll as maintained by the San Diego County Assessor. It shall also mean any part Owner, joint Owner, or lessor of the whole or part of the land or buildings situated thereon.

L. “Person” shall mean any natural Person, firm, partnership, corporation, receiver, trustee, estate trust, business trust, organization, or association.

M. “Prostitution-related arrests” include, but are not limited to, those that involve prostitution or prostitution-related crimes such as pimping or pandering, in violation of Section 647(b), 315, 316, 653.22, and 653.23 of the California Penal Code.

N. “Toilet room” means a room that can be made private by locking a door that contains a toilet and shall comply in all ways with the California Building Codes in effect upon its construction. Toilet rooms may also contain lavatories, bathtubs or showers. (Ord. 3491 § 1, 2020; Ord. 3041 § 2, 2006).