[Amended 11-18-2024 by Ord. No. 23-2024]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
Any form of solicitation, promotion, and/or communication for marketing, used to solicit, encourage, persuade, or manipulate viewers, readers, or listeners into contracting for goods and/or services in violation of this chapter, as same may be viewed through various media including, but not limited to, signs, newspapers, magazines, flyers, commercials, radio, direct mail, internet websites, or text or other electronic messages for the purpose of establishing occupancies or uses of property, for consideration, which are prohibited by this chapter.
A residential property that at least one property owner does not use at their primary residence for at least 12 continuous weeks during a calendar year.
Soliciting, charging, demanding, receiving, or accepting any legally recognized form of consideration including a promise or benefit, a quid-pro-quo, rent, fees, other form of payment, or thing of value.
A building or portion thereof, whether furnished or unfurnished, which is occupied in whole or in part, or intended, arranged, or designed to be occupied, for sleeping, dwelling, cooking, gathering, and/or entertaining, as a residential occupancy, by or one or more persons. This definition includes a condominium, building, townhome, single-family home or portions thereof, that is offered to be used, made available for use, or is actually used for accommodations, lodging, cooking, sleeping, gathering and/or entertaining of occupants and/or guest(s), for consideration. It specifically excludes commercial rental apartment buildings.
A website or marketplace in whatever form, whether online or not, which facilitates short-term rentals or the rental of the exterior (e.g., pool, pool area, backyard) of a residential unit through advertising, searching, match-making, or any other means, using any medium of facilitation and from which the operator of the hosting platform derives revenues, including, but not limited to, booking fees or advertising revenue, from providing or maintaining the website or marketplace.
Constitutes a family-type situation, involving one or more persons living together that exhibit the kind of stability, permanency, and functional lifestyle equivalent to that of a traditional family unit, as further described in the applicable reported and unreported decisions of the New Jersey Superior Court.
Any individual using, inhabiting, living, gathering, entertaining, being entertained as a guest, or sleeping in a dwelling unit, or portion thereof, or having other permission or possessory right(s) within a dwelling unit.
Any person(s) who legally use, possess, own, lease, sublease, or license (including an operator, principal, shareholder, director, agent, or employee, individually or collectively) one or more dwelling units, or who have charge, care, control, or who participates in the expenses and/or profit of a dwelling unit pursuant to a written or unwritten agreement, rental, lease, license, use, occupancy agreement or any other agreement.
An individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company, association, entity, and any person(s) and/or entity(ies) acting in concert or any combination therewith.
The residential address where a person spends the majority of their nonworking time and which is most clearly the center of their domestic life.
The use of a dwelling unit by an occupant(s).
A residential occupancy for a period of 90 days or less.