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Short-term rental rules in Marietta, OH
How Marietta 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.
- city levies its own 6% transient guest tax reaching whole-home STR stays (including Airbnb)
- no STR-specific licensing or registration process (proposed STR ordinance tabled, not enacted)
- general residential rental registry only — not STR-specific
- no cap, residential-zone exclusion, or owner-occupancy device
Based on: City Ordinance Chapter 181 (Transient Guest Tax); Residential Rental Registry Ord. 286 (16-17)
Summary of the rule
The total tax levied shall be six percent (6%) of the amount paid for lodging by the transient guest. 'Hotel' includes motels and rooming houses and means every establishment in which one or more rooms are used for the accommodation of guests.
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