2011 Oregon Revised Statutes
ORS Volume 8, Chapters 305 - 325
ORS Chapter 320
320.300 Definitions for ORS 320.300 to 320.350.

As used in ORS 320.300 to 320.350:

(1) Collection reimbursement charge means the amount a transient lodging provider may retain as reimbursement for the costs incurred by the provider in collecting and reporting a transient lodging tax and in maintaining transient lodging tax records.

(2) Conference center means a facility that:

(a) Is owned or partially owned by a unit of local government, a governmental agency or a nonprofit organization; and

(b) Meets the current membership criteria of the International Association of Conference Centers.

(3) Convention center means a new or improved facility that:

(a) Is capable of attracting and accommodating conventions and trade shows from international, national and regional markets requiring exhibition space, ballroom space, meeting rooms and any other associated space, including but not limited to banquet facilities, loading areas and lobby and registration areas;

(b) Has a total meeting room and ballroom space between one-third and one-half of the total size of the center s exhibition space;

(c) Generates a majority of its business income from tourists;

(d) Has a room-block relationship with the local lodging industry; and

(e) Is owned by a unit of local government, a governmental agency or a nonprofit organization.

(4) Local transient lodging tax means a tax imposed by a unit of local government on the sale, service or furnishing of transient lodging.

(5) State transient lodging tax means the tax imposed under ORS 320.305.

(6) Tourism means economic activity resulting from tourists.

(7) Tourism promotion means any of the following activities:

(a) Advertising, publicizing or distributing information for the purpose of attracting and welcoming tourists;

(b) Conducting strategic planning and research necessary to stimulate future tourism development;

(c) Operating tourism promotion agencies; and

(d) Marketing special events and festivals designed to attract tourists.

(8) Tourism promotion agency includes:

(a) An incorporated nonprofit organization or governmental unit that is responsible for the tourism promotion of a destination on a year-round basis.

(b) A nonprofit entity that manages tourism-related economic development plans, programs and projects.

(c) A regional or statewide association that represents entities that rely on tourism-related business for more than 50 percent of their total income.

(9) Tourism-related facility :

(a) Means a conference center, convention center or visitor information center; and

(b) Means other improved real property that has a useful life of 10 or more years and has a substantial purpose of supporting tourism or accommodating tourist activities.

(10) Tourist means a person who, for business, pleasure, recreation or participation in events related to the arts, heritage or culture, travels from the community in which that person is a resident to a different community that is separate, distinct from and unrelated to the person s community of residence, and that trip:

(a) Requires the person to travel more than 50 miles from the community of residence; or

(b) Includes an overnight stay.

(11) Transient lodging means:

(a) Hotel, motel and inn dwelling units that are used for temporary overnight human occupancy;

(b) Spaces used for parking recreational vehicles or erecting tents during periods of human occupancy; or

(c) Houses, cabins, condominiums, apartment units or other dwelling units, or portions of any of these dwelling units, that are used for temporary human occupancy.

(12) Unit of local government has the meaning given that term in ORS 190.003.

(13) Visitor information center means a building, or a portion of a building, the main purpose of which is to distribute or disseminate information to tourists. [Formerly 305.824; 2005 c.187 1]