[Added 5-7-2012 by L.L. No. 2-2012]
Part 4 shall be known as "Hotels and Motels."
The purpose of Part 4 is to regulate the length of stay in a
hotel or motel such that said building or property shall provide transient
occupancy only.
Part 4 shall take effect on July 1, 2012.
A.
The provisions of this Part 4 shall supercede local laws, ordinances,
codes or regulations to the extent that such local laws, ordinances,
codes or regulations are inconsistent with the provisions of this
Part 4. However, nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the
adoption and enforcement of a law, ordinance or regulation which is
more restrictive or establishes a higher standard than those provided
herein, and such more restrictive requirement or higher standard shall
govern during the time it is in effect.
B.
In a case where a provision of Part 4 is found to be in conflict
with a provision of a zoning or building local law, ordinance, code
or regulation, the more restrictive local law, ordinance, code or
regulation shall prevail.
C.
Nothing herein shall limit the applicability of the New York State
Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code and all other applicable
New York State laws and codes to hotels or motels located in the Village
of Highland Falls, New York.
The following definitions shall apply in this Part 4:
A building or part thereof that has a common entrance, common
heating system and with or without restaurant facilities and which
contains living and sleeping rooms used by an individual or individuals
or groups of individuals for transient occupancy as defined herein.
A building or group of buildings, whether detached or in
connected units, used as individual sleeping units with direct outside
access and related office, and with or without restaurant facilities,
to be used for transient occupancy as defined herein. A motel shall
provide accessory off-street parking facilities. The term "motel"
shall also include buildings designed as tourist courts, motor lodges,
auto courts and other similar appellations, but shall not be construed
to include parking areas for house trailers or mobile homes.
Any individual or individuals, partnership or corporation,
or other entity in whose name title to a property or a building is
vested.
Any dwelling used for the purpose of transient occupancy
and shall include hotels and motels as defined herein and shall not
include lodging houses, boarding and nursery schools, sorority houses,
fraternity houses, college and school dormitories, and convalescent,
old-age and nursing homes.
The occupancy of a room or rooms in the same building or
on the same property for sleeping or living purposes by the same individual,
individuals or group of individuals for a period not to exceed 30
consecutive days and for a period not to exceed 45 nonconsecutive
days within any ninety-day period.
A.
A hotel or motel shall be used for transient occupancy only.
B.
A hotel or motel shall not provide dwelling units for permanent occupancy.
C.
A hotel or motel may allow occupancy of a room or rooms in the same
building or in the same property for sleeping or living purposes by
the same individual, individuals or groups of individuals for a period
not to exceed 30 consecutive days and for a period not to exceed 45
nonconsecutive days within any ninety-day period.
