To amend section 3731.01 of the Revised Code to exempt long-term stay hotels from the Hotel License Law.

Section 1. That section 3731.01 of the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:

Sec. 3731.01. (A) As used in sections 3731.01 to 3731.21 of the Revised Code:

(1) "Hotel" means either of the following:

(a) Any structure consisting of one or more buildings, with more than five sleeping rooms, that is 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;

(b) Any structure consisting of one or more buildings, with more than five sleeping rooms, that is 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, including, but not limited to, an extended stay hotel or extended stay motel that is specifically constructed, and approved by the building official having jurisdiction over it and by the fire marshal, for extended stay temporary residence by persons, and that contains six or more dwelling units with provision for living, eating, cooking, sanitation, and sleeping.

"Hotel" does not include agricultural labor camps, apartment houses, lodging houses, rooming houses, or hospital or college dormitories.

(2) "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.

(3) "Single room occupancy (SRO) basis" means one occupant per room.

(B) This chapter does not apply to apartment the following:

(1) Apartment buildings and other structures in which all of the units are residential premises;

(2) Commercial lodging houses with more than three units in which all of the units are constructed, approved, and certified by the building official having jurisdiction over the building as residential occupancies where the occupants are primarily transient in nature if all of the units are kept, used, maintained, and advertised as transient residences and where the minimum stay of the occupant is more than thirty days but less than one year.

Section 2. That existing section 3731.01 of the Revised Code is hereby repealed.