Kansas Statutes 12-1674a. Service fees and charges; certain cities prohibited from imposing upon persons not receiving service
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 12-1674a
- city: means a city located within Crawford county. See Kansas Statutes 12-16,116
- Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, joint venture or other association of persons;
(b) "Hotel, motel or tourist court" means any structure or building which contains rooms furnished for the purposes of providing lodging, which may or may not also provide meals, entertainment or various other personal services to transient guests, and which is kept, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public as a place where sleeping accommodations are sought for pay or compensation by transient or permanent guests and having more than two bedrooms furnished for the accommodation of such guests;
(c) "Transient guest" means a person who occupies a room in a hotel, motel or tourist court for not more than 28 consecutive days;
(d) "Business" means any person engaged in the business of renting, leasing or letting living quarters, sleeping accommodations, rooms or a part thereof in connection with any motel, hotel or tourist court;
(e) "Convention and tourism promotion" means: (1) Activities to attract visitors into the community through marketing efforts, including advertising, directed to at least one of the five basic convention and tourism market segments consisting of group tours, pleasure travelers, association meetings and conventions, trade shows and corporate meetings and travel; and (2) support of those activities and organizations which encourage increased lodging facility occupancy; and
(f) "Accommodations broker" means any business which maintains an inventory of two or more rooms in one or more locations which are offered for pay to a person or persons for not more than 28 consecutive days. See Kansas Statutes 12-1692
- Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
In all counties with population of not less than one hundred seventy-five thousand (175,000) and not more than two hundred fifteen thousand (215,000) no city shall make any fee or charge howsoever designated, for any service provided by said city to residents thereof, unless the person or property charged for or paying such fee shall be a user of or required by law to use such service, and, in no event shall such fee or charge be unreasonable or disproportionate to the service provided.