Section 5-13-2 - Definitions.
5-13-2. Definitions.
As used in the Convention Center Financing Act [5-13-1 NMSA 1978]:
A. "additional municipality" means an incorporated municipality, not a qualified municipality, that is authorized to impose convention center fees pursuant to the Convention Center Financing Act;
B. "convention center fee" means the fee imposed by a local government entity pursuant the Convention Center Financing Act on vendees for the use of lodging facilities;
C. "local governmental entity" means a qualified municipality, a county or an additional municipality authorized by the Convention Center Financing Act to impose convention center fees;
D. "lodging facility" means a hotel, motel or motor hotel, a bed and breakfast facility, an inn, a resort or other facility offering rooms for payment of rent or other consideration;
E. "qualified municipality" means an incorporated municipality that has a population of more than seventy thousand but less than one hundred thousand according to the 2000 federal decennial census located in a class A county;
F. "room" means a unit of a lodging facility, such as a hotel room;
G. "vendee" means a person who rents or pays consideration to a vendor for use of a room; and
H. "vendor" means a person or his agent who furnishes rooms for occupancy for consideration.