As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated. The word "shall" as used in this chapter is always mandatory and not merely directory.
ACCOMMODATION Any rooming unit or combination of rooming units set aside as a rental unit.
AUTO TOURIST or TRANSIENT Any person who, either at his own expense or at the expense of another, obtains lodging or the use of lodging space in any motel, with the intent to remain temporarily rather than permanently.
MOTEL A series of attached, semiattached or detached rooming units which may be located in a single building or structure, with separate entrances, operated as a single business, containing individual sleeping units with bathrooms and closet space, designed for or used by automobile tourists and transients, and shall include tourist courts, auto courts, motor inns and motor lodges, with convenient access to a parking space for the use of the units' occupants and direct and convenient access to a traveled road, and maintained and rented to the public as accommodations for auto tourists and transients by the day, week or month.
OWNER or OPERATOR Includes the owner, manager, tenant or any person owning or in charge of the motel, and shall include natural persons, firms or corporations.
PERSON Includes persons, partnership, firm, company, corporation, tenant, owner, lessee or licensee, or occupant, their agents, heirs or assigns.
ROOMING UNIT A room or suite of rooms, in a motel, occupied or designed for occupation for sleeping purposes.
The provisions of Chapter
445, Signs, of the Shorewood Village Code shall govern and regulate all signing for motels.
All plumbing, electrical, building and other work on or at any motel licensed under this chapter shall be in accordance with the ordinances of the Village of Shorewood regulating such work unless said ordinances are specifically made inapplicable under the terms of this chapter.
[Amended 1-9-2006 by Ord. No. 1906]
The provisions of §
225-9 and Chapter
299 of the Village Code and applicable state regulations shall govern the construction, operation and maintenance of swimming pools located on motel premises.
Each rooming unit of a motel shall have a complete bathroom, including flush toilet, sink, bath or shower. Floors of bathrooms shall be constructed of materials which are impervious to water. Each bathroom shall be provided with an adequate supply of hot and cold running water, soap, individual or paper towels and toilet paper at all times. In addition, the provisions of the state code applicable hereto shall govern.
Subject to other provisions of this chapter, any person aggrieved by an administrative ruling, judgment or decision may appeal for a hearing before the Board of Appeals within 10 days after the issuance of such ruling, judgment or decision. A nonrefundable appeal fee as provided by the Village Fee Schedule shall accompany each and every appeal brought hereunder. The Village Clerk shall give notice of a hearing to the appellant, to be held within 30 days after service of the notice on the appellant, said service to be served either personally or by certified mail addressed to the appellant's last known address. All other interested parties may be given written notice of said hearing by regular mail. Upon conclusion of the hearing held by the Board of Appeals, the Board shall make a ruling. The written decision of the Board shall be mailed to the appellant by the Village Clerk within 10 days of said decision. Any determination by the Board of Appeals may be appealed to the Circuit Court of Milwaukee County as provided by law.
[Amended 2-4-1991 by Ord. No. 1596]
A. Except where a penalty is otherwise prescribed, the penalty for violation of any provision of this chapter shall be as set forth in §
115-1 of the Village Code.
B. In addition to the provisions of Subsection
A hereunder, compliance with the provisions of this chapter may be enforced by Village officers by injunctional order issued upon the suit of the Village or of any owner of real estate within the Village.