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State short‑term‑rental law places county on the hook to register and inspect rentals; implementation choices due mid‑2026
Summary
A new state law requiring registration of short‑term rentals assigns registration, inspection and enforcement duties to counties unless towns opt out; counties must decide whether to build an internal registry or contract with commercial data aggregators and how to fund administration and inspections.
County staff briefed supervisors on a recently enacted state law requiring short‑term‑rental (STR) registration and collection of sales and occupancy taxes through booking platforms. The law now assigns counties the responsibility to register STRs and to provide hosts with county registration numbers that platforms must require before listing.
Under the legislation the state originally proposed…
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