- Short-term rental owners and hotel are prohibited from operating without installing a smoke alarm in every room that is ordinarily used for sleeping purposes; When activated, the smoke alarm shall initiate a warning sound that is audible in the sleeping rooms of the living unit.
- A short - term rental or hotel owner that has a fossil-fuel-burning heater or appliance, a fireplace, or other feature, fixture, or element that emits carbon monoxide as a byproduct of combustion must install an approved carbon monoxide alarm within ten feet (10′) of each room used for sleeping purposes.
Tennessee 7%, Tipton 2.25%, Covington 0.5% -
Occupancy Tax - 5%
As such, leases with operators of short-term rental facilities must be drafted with the ADA requirements in mind.
As such, if the short-term rental provides “guest rooms for sleeping” for short-term stays where the occupant does not have the right to return after the conclusion of his or her stay and offers hotel-like conditions or amenities such as the ones described above, it could qualify as a “place of public accommodation” to which the ADA applies.
Tenure. A short-term rental tenant shall not stay more than 29 consecutive days in duration.
5. Number of Tenant Rooms. A short-term rental shall have no more than four tenant rooms. Each floor of the
building shall have a functioning carbon monoxide alarm. Each tenant room and each hallway shall have a
functioning smoke detector.
6. Number of Occupants. Each short-term rental tenant room shall be limited to a maximum of two adults, over
18 years old (e.g. a short-term rental unit with two tenan
could have a maximum of four adult shortterm rental tenants at one time).
7. Building and Property Maintenance. All short-term rentals shall be in compliance with the City's Building and
Property Maintenance codes.
8. Signs. One wall sign a maximum of one square foot in area is permitted on a short-term rental property if no
other signage is permitted per Division 13, Signs.
9. Inspection. Each short-term rental shall be subject to inspection by the Chief Building Inspector prior to the
issuance
e of an annual business license, and at all renewals, and all short term rentals shall be subject to
Chapter 110 of the City Code, License Fees and Taxes, regarding rental licensing.
10. Insurance. Each short-term rental host shall obtain and maintain, at the host’s sole expense, liability
insurance to cover the injury or death of a tenant while the tenant is in, on, or about the short-term rental
property.
11. Parking. Regardless of other provisions in this NDC, such as Division 11, Parking, Lo
, Loading, and Circulation,
each short-term rental that is conditionally approved or is within an area with a residential parking program
shall:
a. Provide one off-street parking space for each tenant room, which may be provided on the property of
the short-term rental or on a separate property within the boundary of the surrounding residential
parking program; or
b. Provide one residential parking pass for each tenant room; or
c. Demonstrate that there is sufficient available on-street parking,
within 600 feet of the short-term rental.
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