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Short-term rental rules in College Park, MD
How College Park regulates short-term rentals: the rules that apply, their sources, and pending changes.
Rules here limit which homes may operate as short-term rentals, how many, where, or for how many nights a year.
- STR license requires certifying the STR is the host's permanent residence plus a homestead-tax-credit filing (City Code §144-3A(2)) — foreclosing non-owner-occupied / absentee whole-home STR
- Host defined as the legal owner providing the STR in their own dwelling unit
- Stays limited to fewer than 31 consecutive days; city STR license required
Based on: City of College Park Code Ch. 144 ("Occupancy Permits"), §144-2 (definitions: HOST, OWNER-OCCUPIED, PERMANENT RESIDENT
Summary of the rule
"(j) That the short-term rental is the permanent residence of the host;"
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