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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)
A. Any owner, guest or other person who shall be found to have violated any of the provisions of this article shall be guilty of an offense punishable as follows:
1. The fine for a first violation is two hundred dollars ($200.00);
2. The fine for a second violation is five hundred dollars ($500.00); and
3. The fine for a third or subsequent violation is seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750.00).
B. Each day a provision of this article is found to have been violated constitutes a separate violation subject to the fine schedule set forth in this section.
C. Any fines shall be debts due and owing to the Village that the Village may collect by any means allowed by law, including, but not limited to, filing a lien against the subject property.
D. The fines provided for herein shall not be construed as limiting the power of a court of competent jurisdiction or an administrative hearing officer to impose other penalties and/or remedies as provided for by law. In addition, an owner found to have violated any provisions of this article may be subject to the revocation, suspension or nonrenewal of a license pursuant to the provisions of article 1 of this chapter. (Ord. 21-54, 11-1-2021)
For purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, and are hereby defined as follows:
ELECTRIC LEAF BLOWER: | A leaf blower which is powered by an electric motor. |
GAS-POWERED LEAFBLOWER: | A leaf blower which is powered by gasoline or propane, including an electric leaf blower powered by stand-alone fossil fuel powered generators or generators powered by vehicle engines. |
LAWN MAINTENANCE/ LANDSCAPING: | The care of lawns and yards, including but not limited to establishing a new lawn by seeding or sodding, fertilizing, aeration, mowing, lawn disease treatment, weed control, leaf removal, trimming or planting of shrubs, hedges or similar plantings, mulching and installing decorative rock or bark. |
LAWN MAINTENANCE/ LANDSCAPING BUSINESS: | Any person, entity, limited liability company, corporation, partnership or association who perform lawn maintenance/landscaping as part of a business. |
LEAF BLOWER: | Any device which is used or designed to move leaves, grass clippings, dust, dirt, or other matter by blowing them with air emitted by such device. (Ord. 23-19, 3-13-2023)
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No person shall own or operate within the Village any lawn maintenance/landscaping business without first obtaining a license in accordance with this article, including a home-based business from which a lawn maintenance/landscaping business is operated. (Ord. 23-19, 3-13-2023)
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