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Short-term rental rules in Crisfield, MD
How Crisfield 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-specific annual permit process in force (Chapter 91, Residential Rental Housing)
- annual short-term rental permit expires March 31
- Type 1 / Type 2 permit structure with distinct fees
- municipal-infraction enforcement ($200 initial / $500 repeat for STR-article violations)
- contested owner/operator-occupancy foreclosure could push to Restrictive
Based on: Crisfield City Code Chapter 91, Residential Rental Housing — Short-Term Rentals article (ordinance no./adoption date
Summary of the rule
Crisfield City Code Sec. 91-12E: "No short-term rental permit shall be issued for any non-owner or non-operator occupied dwelling unit." A Type 1/Type 2 fee structure exists (Sec. 91-12B: $100 Type 1 / $200 Type 2) but is orthogonal — subsection E controls and bars any permit for a non-owner/non-operator-occupied dwelling, so there is no absentee/whole-home pathway. Sec. 91-12H(1) additionally reserves the Council's right to limit the number of STR permits by resolution (discretionary cap). Owner/operator-occupancy-only = supply device foreclosing non-owner absentee whole-home STR.
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