Ohio Revised Code|Section 3731.01 | Hotel definitions.

                                                
(A) As used in this chapter: 
(1) "Hotel" means  a transient hotel, extended stay hotel, or  residential hotel.
"Hotel" includes any structure consisting of one or more  buildings containing any combination of more than five guestrooms  that are each approved by the building code official having  jurisdiction and the state fire marshal as meeting the  requirements for  transient sleeping rooms or extended stay  temporary residence  dwelling units, or as having features of such  sleeping rooms and  dwelling units within the same room, and such  structure is  specifically constructed, kept, used, maintained,  advertised, and  held out to the public to be a place where  transient sleeping  accommodations or temporary residence is  offered for pay to  persons, but such structure does not otherwise  meet the definition  of a transient hotel or an extended stay  hotel as defined in this  section. "Hotel" does not include  agricultural labor camps,  apartment houses, apartments or other  similar places of permanent  personal residence, lodging houses,  rooming houses, or hospital or  college dormitories.
(2) "Transient hotel" means any structure consisting of one  or more buildings, with more than five sleeping rooms, that is  specifically constructed, kept, used, maintained, advertised, or  held out to the public to be a place where sleeping accommodations  are offered for pay to transient guests for a period of thirty  days or less,  including, but not limited to, such a structure  denoted as a  hotel, motel, motor hotel, lodge, motor lodge, bed  and breakfast,  or inn.
(3) "Extended stay hotel" means any structure consisting of  one or more buildings, with more than five dwelling units,   and to  which all of the following apply:
(a) The dwelling units in the structure are specifically  constructed, kept, used, maintained,  advertised, and held out to  the public to  be a place  where temporary residence is offered for  pay to persons.
(b) The structure is approved  pursuant to a valid  certificate of occupancy issued by the  building official having  jurisdiction as having dwelling units that have both of the  following types of features:
(i) The required dwelling unit features  for non-transient  residence purposes in accordance with the  residential group R-2  use and occupancy classification adopted by  the board of building  standards pursuant to section 3781.10 of  the  Revised Code, or any  subsequent classification established  by the  board that is  substantially similar to that  classification; 
(ii) All of the transient residential occupancy features of a  transient hotel in accordance with the residential group R-1 use  and occupancy classification adopted by the board pursuant to that  section, or any subsequent classification established by the board  that is substantially similar to that classification.
(c) The valid  certificate of occupancy indicates the  specific rooms within the  structure that can be used as dwelling  units.
(d) The structure is approved  by the state fire marshal for  extended stay temporary residence  purposes.
  (4) "Residential hotel" means any structure or structures  consisting of one or more buildings, with more than five dwelling  units, that are specifically constructed and approved through a  valid certificate of occupancy issued by the building official  having jurisdiction, as having both dwelling unit features for   non-transient residence purposes and all of the  transient  residential occupancy features of a transient hotel in  accordance  with the residential group R-1 use and occupancy  classification  adopted by the board of building standards  pursuant to Chapter  3781. of the Revised Code, and that are kept,  used, maintained,  advertised, operated as, or held out to the  public to be a place  where non-transient dwelling  units are offered for pay to persons  for a minimum stay of more  than thirty days. 
(5) "Temporary residence" means a dwelling unit accommodation  room within a hotel that is used by its occupants but is  not used  as the permanent or principal residence of its occupants.
(6) "Transient" means not more than thirty days.
(7) "Dwelling unit" means an accommodation room within a  hotel that contains independent provisions for living, eating,  cooking, sleeping, and sanitation.
(8) "SRO facility" means a facility with more than five sleeping rooms that is kept, used, maintained, advertised, or held out to the public as a place where sleeping rooms are offered on a single room occupancy (SRO) basis and that is intended for use as a primary residence for residential guests for a period of more than thirty days.
"SRO facility"  does not include agricultural labor camps, apartment houses, lodging houses, rooming houses, or hospital or college dormitories.
(9) "Single room occupancy (SRO) basis" means one occupant per room.
(B) This chapter does not apply to apartment buildings and other structures in which all of the units are residential premises.