Resident shall mean a natural person who is domiciled in a dwelling unit and has the intent to maintain the unit indefinitely and to return there if temporarily absent, coupled with an act or acts consistent with that intent, notwithstanding whether or not the person is a "tenant."
Roof shall mean the surface on the top of a building which separates the building from the outdoors.
Roominghouse shall mean any dwelling or that part thereof containing one (1) or more rooming units in which space is let to three (3) or more persons for thirty (30) consecutive days or more.
Rooming unit shall mean any room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit used or intended to be used for living and sleeping, but not for cooking or eating purposes. A rooming unit does not include short term rental.
Short term rental (STR) shall mean a dwelling unit that is rented to guests for less than thirty (30) consecutive days and for more than fourteen (14) days during any rolling twelve (12) month period, is subject to the Vermont rooms and meals tax, and is either a:(1)
Partial unit, meaning a room located within a host’s primary residence that is used primarily for sleeping purposes by human occupants and that contains at least seventy (70) square feet of floor area; or(2)
Whole unit, meaning an entire dwelling unit.