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Short-term rental rules in Baker City, OR
How Baker City 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 municipal transient room tax (7% May-Oct / 5% Nov-Apr) reaching short-term rental stays
- No STR-specific license, registration, or permit process
- No cap, quota, or residential-zone exclusion
- No primary-residence or owner-occupancy requirement
Based on: Baker City transient lodging tax (7%, in force >2 decades; city resumed self-administration July 2025). Codified
Summary of the rule
Codified Baker City Code Title XI Ch. 111 (Transient Room Tax). § 111.02(A): 'a transient shall pay a tax in the amount of 7% of the rent charged for the privilege of occupancy in a hotel in the City' (May-Oct; 5% Nov-Apr per § 111.02(B)). § 111.01 HOTEL = 'A part of a structure that is occupied or designed for occupancy by transients for lodging or sleeping, including a hotel, inn, tourist home or house, motel, ... apartment house, ... or other similar structure' — a broad definition with NO 6-or-more-rooms floor, reaching a whole-home STR. § 111.05(C) exempts only 'a person who rents a private home, vacation cabin, similar facility ... from an owner who personally rents the facility incidentally to the owner's personal use' — so a dedicated/absentee whole-home STR is taxed as a hotel. STR stays are within the taxed base.
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