File #: O-32-23    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Second Reader
File created: 8/28/2023 In control: City Council
On agenda: 3/11/2024 Final action: 4/8/2024
Title: Short-term Rental Licenses and Regulations - For the purpose of clarifying and limiting local eligibility requirements for a short-term rental operator's license; providing definitions; making technical corrections; and generally relating to a rental operator's license.
Sponsors: Rob Savidge, Ross Arnett, Karma O'Neill, Elly Tierney
Indexes: Economic Matters Committee, Rules and City Government Committee
Attachments: 1. O-32-23 First Reader, 2. O-32-23 Legislative Summary, 3. O-32-23 Staff Report - updated (2/2/24), 4. O-32-23 Fiscal Impact Note, 5. O-32-23 Amendment 1 - O'Neill, 6. O-32-23 Amendment 2 - O'Neill, 7. O-32-23 Amendment 3 - Arnett, 8. O-32-23 Amendment 4 - Finlayson (Rules Committee), 9. O-32-23 Amendment 5 - Tierney, 10. O-32-23 Signed (b&w), 11. O-32-23 Signed (color)
Title
Short-term Rental Licenses and Regulations - For the purpose of clarifying and limiting local eligibility requirements for a short-term rental operator's license; providing definitions; making technical corrections; and generally relating to a rental operator's license.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis

Ordinance 32-23

Introduced by: Alderman Savidge
Co-sponsored by: Alds. Arnett, O'Neill, Tierney

Referred to
Economic Matters Committee
Rules & City Government Committee

AN ORDINANCE concerning

Short-term Rental Licenses and Regulations

FOR the purpose of clarifying and limiting local eligibility requirements for a short-term rental operator's license; providing definitions; making technical corrections; and generally relating to a rental operator's license.

BY repealing and reenacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2023 Edition
17.44.040
17.44.090
17.44.110

SECTION I: BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Code of the City of Annapolis shall be amended to read as follows:

Title 17 - BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION
Chapter 17.44 - Rental Unit Licenses
Section 17.44.030 - Rental operator's license types.

17.44.030 - Rental operator's license types.
A. Provided that the premise meets all of the applicable requirements under Chapter 17.40 and this chapter, the Director may issue the following types of rental operator's licenses.
1. A standard rental operator's license may be applied for and issued for any premises, except for bed and breakfast homes, hotels, motels, and inns, rented for occupancy or use pursuant to an agreement, written or oral, where the premises is rented for more than 90 days.
2. A short-term rental operator's license may be applied for and issued for any premises, except for bed and breakfast homes, hotels, motels, and inns, rented for occupancy or use pursuant to an agreement, written or oral. The number of overnight occupants is subject to t...

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