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Short-term rental rules in Richmond Hill, GA
How Richmond Hill regulates short-term rentals: the rules that apply, their sources, and pending changes.
Short-term rentals here are subject to registration, a lodging tax, or a small number of operating rules.
- The city's own 7% hotel/motel excise tax reaches short-term-rental stays (no six-or-more-room floor)
- No STR-specific license, registration, or permit process in the city code
- No residential-zone STR exclusion or conditional-use requirement in the Unified Development Ordinance
Based on: Richmond Hill Revenue Ordinance of 2022 (current as of 03-01-2022), Article E "Hotel/Motel Tax", §§1-8 (codified
Summary of the rule
The hotel/motel tax rate shall be seven percent of taxable charges to the public for lodging accommodations within the City of Richmond Hill.
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