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(1) Every building or other structure or group of structures under the same management kept, used, maintained, advertised, or held out to the public to be a place where sleeping accommodations are furnished for pay to transient or permanent guests in which three or more rooms are furnished for the accommodation of such guests, whether with or without meals, shall, for the purpose of this chapter only, be deemed a “hotel”.
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(2) “Hotelkeeper” or “Innkeeper” shall mean any person, firm, corporation or enterprise devoted to profit in the administration of a hotel, and, in accordance with the use of the term in this chapter, shall include officials, agents and employees of such person, firm, corporation or enterprise unless otherwise interpreted herein.
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(3) “Guests” shall mean those individuals who have registered in a hotel and to whom rooms have been assigned but shall also include, for the purpose of this chapter, (1) tenants, and (2) any person entering the property of a hotel with the intention of being a guest and regardless of whether or not he has actually become a registered guest.
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