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ORDINANCE # 12 <br />CITY OF RAMSEY <br />ANOKA COUNTY <br />STATE OF MINNESOTA <br />AN ORDINANCE IMPOSING LODGING TAX AND ALLOWING FOR <br />MEMBERSHIP IN THE TWIN CITIES GATEWAY CONVENTION & <br />VISITORS BUREAU (CVB). <br />The City of Ramsey ordains: <br />SECTION 1. Definitions: Unless the language or context clearly indicates that a <br />different meaning is intended, the following words, for the purpose of this ordinance, <br />shall have the following meanings and inclusions: <br />a. "City" means the City of Ramsey, Minnesota, acting by or through its duly <br />authorized representative. <br />b. "Twin Cities Gateway" means the Minnesota Metro North Tourism <br />Corporation d/b/a Twin Cities Gateway Convention & Visitors Bureau. <br />c. "Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB)" means a destination marketing <br />organization that promotes a city, cities, or region to increase the number <br />of visitors and economic activity. <br />d. "Lodging" means the furnishing for a consideration of lodging at a hotel, <br />motel, rooming house, tourist court, municipal campground, resort or bed <br />and breakfast, other than the renting or leasing of it for a continuous <br />period of 30 days or more. <br />e. "Operator" means any person who has charge, care, or control of a <br />building in the City, or part thereof, in which dwelling units or rooming <br />units are let. <br />f. "Person" includes all firms, partnerships, associations, corporations, and <br />natural persons. <br />g. "Rent" means the total consideration valued in money charged for lodging <br />whether paid in money or otherwise, but shall not include any charges for <br />services rendered in connection with furnishing lodging other than the <br />room charge itself. <br />h. "Lodger" means the person obtaining lodging from an operator. <br />SECTION 2. Imposition of Tax. Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 469.190, there <br />is hereby imposed a tax of three percent (3%) on the rent charged by an operator for <br />providing lodging to any person. The tax shall be stated and charged separately and shall <br />be collected by the operator from the lodger. The tax collected by the operator shall be a <br />debt owed by the operator to the City and shall be extinguished only by payment to the <br />City. In no case shall the tax imposed by this section upon an operator exceed the amount <br />1 <br />