A "hotel" shall mean a hotel, motel, resort, or inn, which is
kept, used or advertised as, or held out to the public to be, a place
where sleeping or housekeeping accommodations are supplied for pay
to guests for transient occupancy. Further:
A. An "innholder," "hotel" or "resort" shall mean a commercial building
or part of a building owned or leased and operated by a person holding
a duly issued and valid license as an innholder, under the provisions
of MGL. c. 140, supervised by a person in charge at all hours, offering
overnight lodging accessed through interior hallways to the public
on a daily rate for compensation and provided with adequate and sanitary
kitchen and dining room equipment and capacity for preparing, cooking
and serving suitable food for its transient guests, including travelers
and strangers and its other patrons and customers, may include additional
accessory uses such as conference center facilities, meeting rooms,
health clubs or other customary uses, and in addition meeting and
complying with all the requirements imposed upon innholders under
said Chapter 140.
B. "Motel" shall mean one or more detached buildings providing residential
room accommodations intended primarily for sleeping which are rented
out to the public on a daily rate, where each room has a separate
entrance leading directly outside the building.
C. "Transient" shall mean a period of 14 consecutive calendar days or
less for the purposes of this section only.