(A) On or before the first day of December of each year, the holder of a hotel or SRO license shall submit a renewal application as prescribed by the state fire marshal with the appropriate renewal fee.

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Terms Used In Ohio Code 3731.031

  • Hotel: includes any structure consisting of one or more buildings containing any combination of more than five guestrooms that are each approved by the building code official having jurisdiction and the state fire marshal as meeting the requirements for transient sleeping rooms or extended stay temporary residence dwelling units, or as having features of such sleeping rooms and dwelling units within the same room, and such structure is specifically constructed, kept, used, maintained, advertised, and held out to the public to be a place where transient sleeping accommodations or temporary residence is offered for pay to persons, but such structure does not otherwise meet the definition of a transient hotel or an extended stay hotel as defined in this section. See Ohio Code 3731.01
  • 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. See Ohio Code 3731.01
  • state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59

(B) The renewal fee for each hotel or SRO facility license shall be as follows:

(a) For a hotel or SRO facility containing at least six but less than twenty-six rooms, twenty-five dollars;

(b) For a hotel or SRO facility containing at least twenty-six but less than fifty-one rooms, fifty dollars;

(c) For a hotel or SRO facility containing at least fifty-one but less than seventy-six rooms, seventy-five dollars;

(d) For a hotel containing seventy-six or more rooms, one hundred dollars.

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