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Short-term rental rules in Spearfish, SD
How Spearfish 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.
- No STR-specific ordinance in force — the city states it does not regulate short-term rentals
- City levies its own 1% municipal Hospitality Gross Receipts Tax reaching lodging accommodations rented for fewer than 28 consecutive days
- No cap, no residency requirement, no residential-zone exclusion, no registration or permit process
- STR-regulation taskforce met in 2024 but produced no enacted ordinance
Based on: City of Spearfish Code of Ordinances Ch. 16 — no STR-specific ordinance in force; municipal 1% Hospitality Gross
Summary of the rule
Hospitality Gross Receipts Tax: 1% (City Ordinance Chapter 16 through 78) applying to 'leases or rentals of hotel, motel, campsites or other lodging accommodations within the municipality for periods of less than twenty-eight consecutive days.'
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