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�JM{Y_Oi M4 COUNTY OF HAWAI`I '�iE'p• F •Hi,`� ORDINANCE NO. STATE OF HAWAI`I BILL NO. 47 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 6 OF THE HAWAI`I COUNTY CODE 1983 (2016 EDITION, AS AMENDED), RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAI`I: SECTION 1. Chapter 6 of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (2016 Edition, as amended) is amended by adding an article to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows: "Article 6. Transient Vacation Rentals. Division 1. General Provisions. Section 6-40. Definitions. When used in this article: "Booking services" means an intermediary service that, as between the owner, host, or proprietor of a TVR and a prospective occupant, transient, or user thereof, facilitates any of the following: (1) The offering, listing, or advertising of a TVR to rent; (2) The making, holding, or arranging of reservations for a TVR; and (3) Payment for use of a TVR, whether whole or partial and whether made to the owner, host, or proprietor or to a hosting platform. "Host" means a reachable person whose principal home is on the same property as a TVR and who resides there while the TVR is rented. "Hosted" refers to a TVR located on a property that is the principal home of a host. "Hosting platform" means a person or business that provides booking services. "Principal home" means the same as described by section 19-71(e) of this Code. "Reachable" means being able to: (1) Respond via telephone to a request or message from a guest, neighbor, or County agency within one hour of receiving the request or message; and (2) Be physically present at a TVR within three hours of receiving a request to do so from a guest, neighbor, or County agency. "TVR" or "transient vacation rental" means a dwelling, dwelling unit, room, apartment, suite, shelter, or the like: (1) That is, or is offered to be, furnished and rented to a transient: (A) For a rental period less than one hundred and eighty consecutive days; and (B) In exchange for money, goods, services, or other consideration; and (2) Excluding hotels, motels, inns, apartment hotels, boarding facilities, lodges, timeshares, and tents.