a. “Convention center operating authority” means, in the case of any eligible municipality, the public authority or other governmental entity empowered to operate convention hall and the convention center facilities in the eligible municipality.

b. “Director” means the Director of the Division of Taxation in the Department of the Treasury.

c. “Eligible municipality” means any municipality in which any portion of the proceeds of a retail sales tax levied by ordinance adopted by the municipality pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1947, c.71 (C. 40:48-8.15) is applied as authorized by law to the payment of costs of convention center facilities located in the municipality.

d. “Hotel” means a building or a portion of a building which is regularly used and kept open as such for the lodging of guests. “Hotel” includes an apartment hotel, a motel, inn, and rooming or boarding house or club, whether or not meals are served, but does not include a transient accommodation.

e. “Obtained through a transient space marketplace” means that payment for the accommodation is made through a means provided by the marketplace or travel agency, either directly or indirectly, regardless of which person or entity receives the payment, and where the contracting for the accommodation is made through the marketplace or travel agency. f. “Occupied room” means a room or rooms of any kind in any part of a hotel or transient accommodation, other than a place of assembly, which is used or possessed by a guest or guests, whether or not for consideration.

g. “Professionally managed unit” means a room, group of rooms, or other living or sleeping space for the lodging of occupants in the State, that is offered for rent as a rental unit that does not share any living or sleeping space with any other rental unit, and that is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by a person offering for rent two or more other units during the calendar year.

h. “Residence” means a house, condominium, or other residential dwelling unit in a building or structure or part of a building or structure that is designed, constructed, leased, rented, let or hired out, or otherwise made available for use as a residence.

i. “Transient accommodation” means a room, group of rooms, or other living or sleeping space for the lodging of occupants, including but not limited to residences or buildings used as residences, that is obtained through a transient space marketplace or is a professionally managed unit. “Transient accommodation” does not include: a hotel or hotel room; a room, group of rooms, or other living or sleeping space used as a place of assembly; a dormitory or other similar residential facility of an elementary or secondary school or a college or university; a hospital, nursing home, or other similar residential facility of a provider of services for the care, support and treatment of individuals that is licensed by the State; a campsite, cabin, lean-to, or other similar residential facility of a campground or an adult or youth camp; a furnished or unfurnished private residential property, including but not limited to condominiums, bungalows, single-family homes and similar living units, where no maid service, room service, linen changing service or other common hotel services are made available by the lessor and where the keys to the furnished or unfurnished private residential property, whether a physical key, access to a keyless locking mechanism, or other means of physical ingress to the furnished or unfurnished private residential property, are provided to the lessee at the location of an offsite real estate broker licensed by the New Jersey Real Estate Commission pursuant to R.S.45:15-1 et seq.; or leases of real property with a term of at least 90 consecutive days.

j. “Transient space marketplace” means a marketplace or travel agency through which a person may offer transient accommodations to customers and through which customers may arrange for occupancies of transient accommodations. “Transient space marketplace” does not include a marketplace or travel agency that exclusively offers transient accommodations in the State owned by the owner of the marketplace or travel agency.

L.1991, c.376, s.1; amended 2018, c.49, s.8; 2018, c.132, s.7; 2019, c.235, s.6.