(A) Except as otherwise provided herein, leasing, renting, loaning, hiring out, licensing, or letting; offering or inviting the leasing, renting, loaning, hiring out, licensing, or letting; or otherwise permitting a short term rental unit or occupancy thereof for a period or term that is less than thirty (30) consecutive days shall be prohibited, and such conduct shall be prohibited, whether engaged in or participated in by the owner of the property, one or more agents of the property owner, or by any person leasing, or seeking to lease as a lessor, or renting or seeking to rent as lessee or otherwise occupy a premises, or part thereof, as tenant or temporary occupant thereof.
(B) Dwellings, or parts thereof, shall not be leased, rented, loaned, hired out, licensed, let, or otherwise permitted to be occupied more than two (2) times during any consecutive twelve (12) month period other than by the same tenant unless the rental agreement therefor has been terminated by reason of a tenant default.
(C) Whether or not consideration is exchanged for the lease, rental, loan, hiring out, licensing, or letting of a premises shall not affect the fact that the occupancy thereof is treated as a short term rental unit for the purposes of this subchapter if the definition thereof is otherwise applicable to such activity.
(D) The term of any lease or occupancy agreement which has satisfied the minimum term required by this subchapter may be extended on a month-to-month basis on the condition that the tenant or tenants remain the same.
(E) The prohibition on short term rental units shall not apply when the immediately preceding owner of a property maintains possession of the dwelling unit after closing on a real estate transaction for the sale thereof and leases said property back from the successor owner for a period of time pursuant to a written agreement.
(Ord. 18-4109, passed 12-20-18)