§ 5.93.010. Definitions.

"Additional-Bed Rooms" means a room with additional beds such as cots or roll-aways.

"Checkout" means a room occupied by guests who are ending their stay at the hotel.

"Guest" means registered guests, others occupying guest rooms with registered guests, and visitors invited to guest rooms by a registered guest or other occupant of a guest room.

"Guest Room" means a room made available by a hotel for transient occupancy, within the meaning of Oakland Municipal Code section 4.24.020.

"Hotel" means structures as defined by Oakland Municipal Code Section 4.24.020, and containing fifty (50) or more guest rooms, or suites of rooms. "Hotel" also includes any contracted, leased, or sublet premises connected to or operated in conjunction with the building's purpose, or providing services at the building.

"Hotel Employee" means any individual:

(1)

Who is employed directly by the hotel employer or by a person who has contracted with the hotel employer to provide services at a hotel in the City of Oakland; and

(2)

Who was hired to or did work an average of five (5) hours/week for four (4) weeks at one (1) or more hotels.

"Hotel Employer" means a person who owns, controls, and/or operates a hotel in the City of Oakland, or a person who owns, controls, and/or operates any contracted, leased, or sublet premises connected to or operated in conjunction with the hotel's purpose, or a person, other than a hotel employee, who provides services at the hotel.

"Panic Button" means an emergency contact device carried by the hotel employee which allows him or her in the event of an ongoing crime, threat, or other emergency to alert another employee or security guard responsible for providing immediate on-scene assistance.

"Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, business trust, estate, trust, association, joint venture, agency, instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity, whether domestic or foreign.

"Room Cleaner" means a hotel employee whose principal duties are to clean and put in order residential guest rooms in a hotel, regardless of who employs the person.

"Workday" means a twenty-four-hour period beginning at 12:00 a.m. and ending at 11:59 p.m.

(Res. No. 87287, § 1, 7-24-2018)