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Short-term rental rules in Ely, NV
How Ely regulates short-term rentals: the rules that apply, their sources, and pending changes.
Short-term rentals here operate under a registration or permit system with ongoing operating rules.
- STR-specific business license required (Ely City Code Title 3, Ch. 3 Rental Businesses)
- owner-operator required (licensee must be the property owner)
- 660-foot separation required between short-term rentals
- local contact person required; whole-home STR permitted by-right with no cap and no residential-zone exclusion
Based on: Ely City Code, Title 3 (Business and License Regulations), Chapter 3 (Rental Businesses), §3-3-12 'Restrictions on
Summary of the rule
Ely City Code §3-3-12 RESTRICTIONS ON SHORT-TERM RESIDENTIAL RENTALS (verbatim): 'No licensee may operate a short-term residential rental business and any business license issued to a licensee of short-term residential rental business is void if: A. The licensee is not the owner of the short-term residential rental. B. The short-term residential rental is located within six hundred sixty (660) feet of any other short-term residential rental (measured from property line to property line). This provision will not apply to short-term rentals located on the same parcel. C. The short-term residential rental is operated without the oversight of a local contact person whose contact information has been provided in writing to both the lessee and the city. D. The licensee fails to notify the city in writing of all short-term residential rentals operated by licensee within the city. (Ord. 728, 11-21-2019)'. No numeric citywide cap, primary-residence, host-present, or residential-zone exclusion.
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