As used in the Convention Center Financing Act:

A. "convention center" includes a civic center or convention center that includes space for rent by the public for the primary purpose of increasing tourism;

B. "convention center fee" means the fee imposed by a local governmental entity pursuant to the Convention Center Financing Act on vendees for the use of lodging facilities;

C. "local governmental entity" means a qualified municipality or a county authorized by the Convention Center Financing Act to impose convention center fees;

D. "lodging facility" means a hotel, motel or motor hotel, a bed and breakfast facility, an inn, a resort or other facility offering rooms for payment of rent or other consideration;

E. "qualified municipality" means an incorporated municipality or an H class county;

F. "room" means a unit of a lodging facility, such as a hotel room;

G. "vendee" means a person who rents or pays consideration to a vendor for use of a room; and

H. "vendor" means a person or the person's agent who furnishes rooms for occupancy for consideration.

History: Laws 2003, ch. 87, § 2; 2013, ch. 190, § 1; 2014, ch. 15, § 2.

The 2014 amendment, effective May 21, 2014, changed the definition of "convention center"; and in Subsection A, after "convention center", deleted "and any facility".

The 2013 amendment, effective June 14, 2013, expanded the scope of the Convention Center Financing Act to civic centers and to all municipalities; deleted former Subsection A, which defined "additional municipality" and added a new Subsection A; in Subsection C, after "or a county", deleted "or an additional municipality"; and in Subsection E, after "incorporated municipality", deleted "that has a population of more than seventy thousand but less than one hundred thousand according to the 2000 federal decennial census located in a class A county" and added "or an H class county".