(a) A short-term rental applicant may submit an application for a new Short-Term Rental Operating Certificate at any time to the Auditor. If the application is approved and a new Short-Term Rental Operating Certificate is issued, the certificate shall take effect on the date of issuance and shall expire on the last day of February. Neither certificates nor registration fees shall be pro-rated.
(b) A renewal application may be submitted to the Auditor beginning November 1 through the last day of February. Applicants are encouraged to submit their applications for renewal thirty (30) days prior to expiration to ensure enough time for processing. Any renewal application submitted on March 1 or after shall be considered an application for a new operating certificate.
(c) The short-term rental registration application shall include the following information:
(1) Operator Information. The full legal name, current street mailing address, contact phone number, emergency contact phone number, and email address for the operator, and in cases where a business entity or trust is the operator, the individual who has responsibility to oversee the operation of the property including the mailing address, contact phone number, emergency contact phone number, and email address of such individual.
(2) Authorized Representative information. The full legal name, current street mailing address, contact phone number, emergency contact phone number, and email address for the individual, person, firm, partnership, corporation or company, other than an Owner, acting on behalf of an Owner of a short-term rental property responsible for ensuring compliance with all provisions of this Chapter and registered as the Owner's Authorized Representative with the City of Port Clinton.
(3) Responsible Local Person Information. The full legal name, current street mailing address, contact phone number, emergency contact phone number, and email address for the Owner or Authorized Representative who resides within 60 minutes of the short-term rental and who will be available twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week to respond as necessary to notifications of complaints regarding the condition, operation, or conduct of occupants of the short-term rental and taking remedial action as necessary to resolve such complaints.
(4) A basic site plan identifying the number of sleeping rooms and beds for the maximum occupancy allowed for overnight occupants.
(5) Photos and location of the following fully functional life safety equipment at the short-term rental that is installed to manufacturer specifications:
A. Functional smoke detectors installed inside bedrooms, outside bedrooms, in the immediate vicinity of bedrooms, and on each story of a residential unit; and
B. Functional carbon monoxide detector installed within fifteen (15) feet of all bedrooms on each story of a residential unit (if applicable to your rental), and
C. Functional fire extinguisher(s).
(6) The operator shall provide to the City an up-to-date certificate of insurance documenting that the residential unit is insured as a short-term rental and providing coverage of not less than three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00) and issued in accordance with Chapter 3902 of the Ohio Revised Code.
(7) The operator shall provide the City an acknowledgment that he/she/it understands that the short-term rental shall be in full compliance at all times with the City of Port Clinton Codified Ordinances and all of the provisions of this Chapter.
(d) The Auditor, or his/her designee, shall review each registration application and shall issue a short-term rental operating certificate to the operator of the short-term rental upon finding the application satisfies all the requirements of this chapter.
(Ord. 24-23. Passed 12-12-23.)