Under this classification are included all hotels, lodging and boarding houses, club houses, dormitories, convents, monasteries, hospitals, homes for the aged and infirm, nursing homes, convalescent homes, convalescent hospitals, asylums, jails and other places of detention, including every building or part of a building used for sleeping or lodging purposes by 3 or more persons not members of a family.
Wis. Admin. Code Department of Safety and Professional Services SPS 379.01
Where the following requirements refer to "families" or "apartments," the requirements apply to apartment houses; where they refer to"persons" or "rooms," the requirements apply to hotels and other places as listed in s. SPS 379.01.