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For purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, and are hereby defined as follows:
DWELLING UNIT: | One or more rooms, including individualized bathroom and kitchen facilities, which are arranged, designed, or used as living quarters for a household. |
GUEST: | A person who rents or occupies a short-term rental. |
HOST: | An owner or owners engaged in providing short term rentals. |
HOSTING PLATFORM: | A marketplace entity, in whatever form or format which facilitates short term rentals through advertising, matchmaking or other means, using any medium or facilitation, or from which the operator of the hosting platform derives revenue, including booking fees or advertising revenues from providing or maintaining the marketplace information. |
NON-OWNER-OCCUPIED SHORT-TERM RENTALS: | A short term rental property that is not owner-occupied and is rented using a hosting platform for any short-term rental period. |
OWNER: | A person holding title or co-title of an abode, dwelling unit or residence that they may lease as a short-term rental but only in accordance with the terms of this article. |
OWNER OCCUPIED SHORT-TERM RENTALS: | A short term rental property that is primarily owner-occupied, except for the duration when the property or a portion thereof as defined herein is rented using a hosting platform for any short-term rental period. |
SHORT-TERM RENTAL PERIOD: | A period of time of one hundred and eighty-two (182) or lesser calendar days. |
SHORT TERM RENTALS: | A residential dwelling unit, including a single-family home in its entirety or an individual room within a single-family home or an accessory structure of a single-family home, townhomes, condominiums and rooming house dwelling units or any residential dwelling unit included within a building containing two (2) or more residential units, a building containing three (3) or more residential units, or a multi-family building containing four (4) or more units that are rented out using a hosting platform for any short-term rental period. (Ord. 21-54, 11-1-2021; amd. Ord. 2022-55, 9-6-2022; Ord. 2022-76, 11-7-2022) |
No person shall conduct, keep, manage or operate or cause to be conducted, kept, managed or operated a short-term rental without a license therefor as provided in article 1 of this chapter. A license shall be obtained for each short-term rental and shall not be transferable. All such licenses are required to be renewed annually, subject to the same condition as the original license. Such license shall be issued by the Village upon payment of the fee as provided in chapter 8 of this code. Such fee shall accompany the license application. (Ord. 21-54, 11-1-2021)
The license fees to be paid annually to the Village pursuant to this article shall be as follows:
A. A non-owner-occupied short-term rental applicant who is a not a resident of the Village shall pay the same fee as a bed and breakfast for each short-term rental set forth in section 8-2-1 of this Code.
B. A non-owner-occupied short-term rental applicant who is a Village resident shall pay a fee of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00).
C. An owner-occupied short-term rental applicant shall pay an annual license fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00). (Ord. 21-54, 11-1-2021)
In addition to the requirements set forth in article 1 of this chapter, no license shall be issued unless the following standards are met:
A. All owners must use a hosting platform to market a short-term rental. The hosting platform shall be responsible for determining the guest's identification information and the accuracy of that information;
B. No owner shall rent any short-term rental for any period of time shorter than twenty-four (24) consecutive hours and for any period of time greater than one hundred and eighty-two (182) days;
C. The owner must inform a guest if parking is provided by the owner and if not, inform the guest that Village parking passes are available through the Village's overnight parking application. The short-term rental owner must also provide the guest with instructions on how to obtain Village parking passes through the Village's overnight parking application. Guests shall not park vehicles on Village streets overnight unless otherwise permitted;
D. The owner must provide proof of homeowner's insurance or host protection insurance in the amount of at least five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00) to the Village as part of its application;
E. Every short-term rental shall be subject to inspection by staff members of the Village's Fire, Health and/or Development Customer Services Departments;
F. The owner shall keep a guest register in which the name of every guest and the guest's arrival and departure dates shall be recorded in written form. The owner shall make the guest register freely accessible to any authorized Village employee; and
G. The owner shall post, inside the front entrance to every short-term rental dwelling unit, a short-term rental license issued by the Village stating the owners name, a twenty-four (24)-hour telephone number to reach the owner and the maximum occupancy of the dwelling unit as allowed by this article. (Ord. 21-54, 11-1-2021; amd. Ord. 2022-55, 9-6-2022)
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