"Bed and breakfast" or "homestead." A public accommodation consisting of a private residence, which contains ten or fewer bedrooms, used for providing overnight accommodations to the public and in which breakfast is the only meal served and is included in the charge for the room.
"Cabin." A permanent structure with beds and running water that is located on a campground on State land or private property and is available to provide overnight lodging for consideration to persons seeking temporary accommodations. The term does not include a yurt or walled tent.
"Conflict of interest." Use by a board member, director, officer or employe of a recognized tourist promotion agency of the authority of his or her office or employment or any confidential information received through his or her capacity in relation to a recognized tourist promotion agency for the private pecuniary benefit of himself or herself, a member of his or her immediate family or a business with which he or she or a member of his or her immediate family is associated. The term does not include an action having a de minimis economic impact or which affects to the same degree a class consisting of the general public or a subclass consisting of an industry,occupation or other group which includes a board member, director, officer or employe, a member of his or her immediate family or business with which he or she or a member of his or her immediate family is associated.
"Consideration." Receipts, fees, charges, rentals, leases, cash, credits, property of any kind or nature or other payment received by operators in exchange for or in consideration of the use or occupancy by a transient of a room or rooms in a hotel for a temporary period.
"County." Any county of the third through eighth class that was authorized to levy a hotel occupancy or room rental tax under the former section 1770.2 or 1770.6.
"Hotel." A hotel, motel, inn, guesthouse, rooming house, bed and breakfast, homestead or other structure which holds itself out by any means, including advertising, license, registration with an innkeepers' group, convention listing association, travel publication or similar association or with a government agency, as being available to provide overnight lodging for consideration to persons seeking temporary accommodation; any place which advertises to the public at large or any segment thereof that it will provide beds, sanitary facilities or other space for a temporary period to members of the public at large; any place recognized as a hostelry; or any cabin. The term does not include
any of the following:
"Immediate family." A spouse, parent, brother, sister or child.
"Marketing." An action by a recognized tourism promotion agency that includes, but is not limited to, promoting and encouraging visitors to visit a specific county, counties or geographic region.
"Occupancy." The use or possession or the right to the use or possession by any person other than a permanent resident of any room in a hotel for any purpose or the right to the use or possession of the furnishings or to the services accompanying the use and possession of the room.
"Operator." Any individual, partnership, nonprofit orprofit-making association or corporation or other person or group of persons who maintain, operate, manage, own, have custody of or otherwise possess the right to rent or lease overnight accommodations in a building to the public for consideration.
"Patron." Any person who pays the consideration for the occupancy of a room or rooms in a hotel.
"Permanent resident." A person who has occupied or has the right to occupancy of a room or rooms in a hotel as a patron or otherwise for a period exceeding thirty consecutive days.
"Recognized tourist promotion agency." The nonprofit corporation, organization, association or agency which is engaged in planning and promoting programs designed to stimulate and increase the volume of tourist, visitor and vacation business within a county and certified by the county as of the effective date of this subsection or under section 1770.11.
"Room." A space in a building set aside for use and occupancy by patrons or otherwise, for consideration, having at least one bed or other sleeping accommodations provided.
"Transaction." The activity involving the obtaining by a transient or patron of the use or occupancy of a hotel room from which consideration emanates to the operator under an expressed or implied contract.
"Transient." An individual who obtains accommodation in a hotel by means of registering at the facility for the temporary occupancy of a room for the personal use of the individual by paying a fee to the operator.
16 P.S. § 1770.10