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Definition of Terms As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall mean:
(a) Hotel. A building where transient guests are received and are supplied with and charged for meals, lodging and other services.
(b) Motel. A roadside hotel for motorists, usually consisting of private cabins.
(c) Boarding House. A building where selected persons for fixed periods of time are supplied with, and charged for sleeping accommodations and meals.
(d) Lodging House. A building where persons are supplied with and charged for sleeping accommodations only.
(e) Tenement House. A building or portion thereof which is leased or sold to an occupied as residence by four or more families doing their cooking within the premises but living independently of one another although having a common right in the use of halls, stairways, terraces, verandas, toilets, and baths.
(f) Apartment House. A building containing a number of separate residential suites.
(g) Condominium. A building with one or more storeys composed of multi-unit residential suites under joint ownership of occupants, each unit provided with complete sanitary facilities, utilities and other amenities.
(h) Establishments. A collective term construed to include items (a) to (g).
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