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'Owner-hosted" means any transient accommodation rental hosted by a person who uses the building site as their principal home." 'Principal home"means a principal home as defined in section 19-71(e), Hawai`i County Code." 'Transient" or"transients"means any visitor or person who rents or uses a lodging or dwelling unit, or portion thereof, for less than one hundred eighty days and whose permanent address for legal purposes is not the lodging or dwelling unit occupied by the visitor. This definition shall not apply to: (1) Nonpaying guests of the family occupying the unit; (2) Clients in health care facilities; (3) Full-time students enrolled in an educational institution in the County of Hawai`i; (4) Employees who receive room and/or board as part of their salary or compensation including agricultural workers; (5) Occupants of group living facilities, authorized by the department of health; ,(6) Military personnel; (7) Health care workers temporarily employed at a medical facility in the County of Hawai`i; (8) Low-income renters receiving rental subsistence from the state or federal governments whose rental periods are for durations shorter than sixty days; or (9) Occupants of lodging provided by nonprofit corporations or associations for religious, charitable, or education purposes; provided that no income is produced, even if the income is used for or in furtherance of the exempt activities of such religious, charitable, or educational corporation or association." ""Transient accommodation"means the furnishing of a room, apartment, suite, single family dwelling, or the like to a transient for less than one hundred eighty consecutive days for each letting in a hotel, apartment hotel, motel, condominium or unit as defined in chapter 514B, cooperative apartment, dwelling unit, or rooming house that provides living quarters, sleeping, or housekeeping accommodations, or other place in which lodgings are regularly furnished to transients. (Reference section 237D-1, Hawai`i Revised Statutes.)" 'Transient" accommodation rental" means transient accommodations excluding: (1) Hotels, motels, and inns; (2) Apartment hotels., (3) Boarding facilities; (4) Lodges; and (5) Timeshares." ""Un-hosted"means any transient accommodation rental that is not the principal home of the property owner and without an operator located on the same building site during rental operations." 'Verified complaint"means any complaint filed on a complaint form prepared by the planning department pursuant to rule 9 of the planning department rules of practice and 2