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Short-term rental rules in Cloudcroft, NM
How Cloudcroft 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.
- Village levies its own municipal Lodgers' Tax (Title 3, Ch. 4) reaching whole-home short-term-rental lodging
- Nightly rentals permitted by-right in the R-1 residential zone, conditioned only on a Lodger's Tax License
- No cap, no primary-residence rule, and no residential-zone STR exclusion in the code
- No standalone STR permit or supply-control process — tax-collection license only
Based on: Village Code of Cloudcroft, NM (American Legal) — Title 3, Chapter 4 LODGERS TAX (municipal lodgers' tax on
Summary of the rule
Cloudcroft Village Code §3-4-3 DEFINITIONS: 'TAXABLE PREMISES: A hotel, apartment, apartment hotel, apartment house, lodge, lodging house, rooming house, motor hotel, guest house, guest ranch, ranch resort, guest resort, mobile home, motor court, auto court, auto camp, trailer court, trailer camp, trailer park, tourist camp, cabin or other premises for lodging.' 'LODGING: The transaction of furnishing rooms or other accommodations by a vendor to a vendee who for rent, uses, possesses or has the right to use or possess any room or rooms or other units of accommodations...' NO room-count floor — 'cabin or other premises for lodging' reaches a whole-home STR. §3-4-5 imposes the Village's own municipal lodgers' tax (Ord. 274, 7-9-1996). This is the Village's OWN STR-touching tax device.
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