HomeMy WebLinkAbout2019-03 Amending Chapter 1 of Title 4 to Address Business Licensing Fees for Accommodation Services ORDINANCE NO. 3
SERIES 2019
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 1 OF TITLE 4 OF THE VAIL
TOWN CODE TO ADDRESS BUSINESS LICENSING FEES FOR
ACCOMMODATION SERVICES
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE
TOWN OF VAIL, COLORADO, THAT:
Section 1. Section 4-1-2 of the Vail Town Code is amended by the addition of
the following new definitions, to appear in alphabetical order:
ACCOMMODATION SERVICE: The furnishing of rooms or
accommodations by any person, partnership, association, corporation,
estate, representative, or any other combination of individuals, to a person
who for a consideration uses, possesses, or has the right to use or
possess, any room in a hotel, apartment hotel, accommodation unit,
lodge, lodging house, motor hotel, guesthouse, guest ranch, trailer coach,
mobile home, auto camp, trailer court and park, fractional fee club,
fractional fee club unit, bed and breakfast, or short-term rental property for
a period of less than thirty (30) consecutive days under any concession,
permit, right of access, license or agreement, including property
management and similar services, but excluding owners of short-term
rental properties, as that term is defined in Section 4-14-2.
RENTAL INTEREST: The smallest portion of an accommodation service
that can be separately leased, licensed or used.
Section 2. Section 4-1-4(B) of the Vail Town Code is hereby amended as
follows:
4-1-4: FEES.
B. Schedule: An annual business license fee shall be paid by every
person doing business in the Town in accordance with the following
schedule:
1. Short term Rentals: Repealed. Accommodation services:
Accommodation services shall pay a fee as follows:
a. Accommodation services with more than two (2) rental
interests shall pay a flat fee of three hundred twenty-five dollars
($325.00), plus a fee of seventeen dollars ($17.00) per rental
interest located in Zone 1 and twelve dollars and seventy-five cents
($12.75) for each rental interest located in Zone 2.
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b. Accommodation services with two (2) or fewer rental
interests shall pay a flat fee of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00),
plus a fee of seventeen dollars ($17.00) per rental interest located
in Zone 1 and twelve dollars and seventy-five cents ($12.75) for
each rental interest located in Zone 2.
c. The accommodation service licensing requirement applies to
businesses conducting property management or similar services for
short-term rental property, but it does not apply to short-term rental
property owners separately registered under Title 4, Chapter 14, of
this Code.
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11. Lodge support businesses Lodges: Lodge support
businesses shall pay a minimum business license fee depending on the
category of business being operated at the rate of seventy five percent
(75%) of the rate charged for each category listed above, and shall pay an
additional fee depending upon the type of business being operated at the
same rate as set forth for each category listed above.
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Section 3. If any part, section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this
ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid, such decision shall not effect the validity
of the remaining portions of this ordinance; and the Town Council hereby declares it
would have passed this ordinance, and each part, section, subsection, sentence, clause
or phrase thereof, regardless of the fact that any one or more parts, sections,
subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid.
Section 4. The Town Council hereby finds, determines and declares that this
ordinance is necessary and proper for the health, safety and welfare of the Town of Vail
and the inhabitants thereof.
Section 5. All bylaws, orders, resolutions and ordinances, or parts thereof,
inconsistent herewith are repealed to the extent only of such inconsistency. This
repealer shall not be construed to revise any bylaw, order, resolution or ordinance, or
part thereof, theretofore repealed.
INTRODUCED, READ ON FIRST READING, APPROVED, AND ORDERED
PUBLISHED ONCE IN FULL ON FIRST READING this 2nd day of April, 2019 and a
public hearing for second reading of this Ordinance set for the 16th day • April, 2019, in
the Council Chambers of the Vail Municipal Buildi . Vail, Colorado.
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