(a) All operators shall register their short-term rentals with the City annually. A registration year begins March 1 of each calendar year and concludes the last day of February the following calendar year.
(b) No person shall operate or permit the operation of a short-term rental without first registering the short-term rental with the City Auditor and the City Department of Taxation and being issued a Short-Term Rental Operating Certificate.
(c) Registration shall be maintained according to the provisions of this Chapter during any period of operation as a short-term rental.
(d) All operators/short-term rentals shall be in full compliance at all times with the City of Port Clinton Codified Ordinances.
(e) For the purpose of providing revenue with which to meet the needs of the City for general operating expenses, there is established a Short-Term Rental Registration Fee equal to three hundred dollars ($300.00) for each Short-Term Rental Operating Certificate; a reduced fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) shall be paid to renew an existing Short-Term Rental Operating Certificate on an annual basis.
(f) All applicants shall file a short-term rental registration application with all of the required information and pay the registration fee. All applications shall be submitted to the Auditor.
(g) No certificate shall be issued until the application has been fully completed and compliance with all applicable codified ordinances has been determined. Once compliance has been determined a certificate shall be issued to the applicant by the Auditor.
(h) The Auditor may submit all applications to the appropriate City department for their endorsements as to compliance by the applicant with all City regulations which they have a duty of enforcing.
(i) The filing of an application, or the renewal thereof, or the payment of any application fee or renewal fee, shall not authorize a person to engage in a short-term rental until such certificate has been issued or renewed.
(j) Each Short-Term Rental Operating Certificate shall expire on the last day of February of each calendar year. (Ord. 24-23. Passed 12-12-23.)