“Roominghouse” means a building containing three or more guestrooms, used, designed, or intended to be used, let or hired, to be occupied or which are occupied by three or more individuals with or without meals, for compensation, as permanent guests pursuant to a previous arrangement for compensation for definite periods, by the month or greater term, and in which rooms are not occupied by, nor meals served, to transients. (Prior code § 17.08.460)