§ 5-14-2 — Definitions

As used in the Civic and Convention Center Funding Act: A. "convention center fee" means the fee imposed by a local government entity pursuant to the Civic and Convention Center Funding Act on vendees for the use of lodging facilities; B. "county" means a county within which a qualified municipality is located; C. "local governmental entity" means a qualified municipality or a county authorized by the Civic and Convention Center Funding Act to impose convention center fees; D. "lodging facility" means a hotel, motel or motor hotel, a bed and breakfast facility, an inn, a resort or other facility offering rooms for payment of rent or other consideration; E. "qualified municipality" means an incorporated municipality that has a population of more than fifty thousand but less than seventy thousand according to the most recent federal decennial census and that is located in a class A county; F. "room" means a unit of a lodging facility, such as a hotel room; G. "vendee" means a person who rents or pays consideration to a vendor for use of a room; and H. "vendor" means a person or his agent who furnishes rooms for occupancy for consideration.

Legislative History

Laws 2003, ch. 374, § 2.