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.
Part
4 shall apply to all hotels and motels located in the Village of Highland Falls, New York. Hotels and motels shall also be subject to the provisions of Part
3 of this chapter.
The following definitions shall apply in this Part 4:
HOTEL
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.
MOTEL
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.
OWNER
Any individual or individuals, partnership or corporation,
or other entity in whose name title to a property or a building is
vested.
TRANSIENT DWELLING
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.
TRANSIENT OCCUPANCY
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.
Penalties for any violation of the provisions of this Part
4, Article
XIII, shall be as set forth in §
122-73.