Short-term rentals in East Greenwich Township, explained properly.

Section 15.10.160(B)(7) says short-term rentals shall not be permitted for the purpose of hosting commercial or social events.

Section 15.10.160(B)(9) bars signs or any other type of advertisement indicating that a residential unit is available for occupancy as a short-term rental unit from being placed on the property where the unit is located. Section 15.10.160(B)(2) says advertisements for the availability of short-term rental units shall not contain language inconsistent with the requirements and prohibitions in the section.

Section 15.10.160(B)(4) and (6) set these standards. The Township's residential occupancy requirements are in other parts of the Code that were not fetched.

Section 15.10.160(B)(10). The fire safety code's detector counts were not fetched.

Section 15.10.160(B)(11)(i) to (v) lists the five items to post: (i) the telephone number of the short-term rental owner and the person responsible for building maintenance issues; (ii) the telephone numbers for the township police department, fire department and code enforcement department; (iii) the locations of all emergency exit routes, fire extinguishers and fire alarms within the unit; (iv) the maximum number of parking spaces available onsite; and (v) notification that any short-term renter is subject to fines and penalties for violations of the chapter or the township municipal code.

The Division of Taxation page on hotel and motel occupancies says New Jersey imposes sales tax on hotel and motel occupancies at a current rate of 6.625% (page last updated 04/07/26, no effective date shown). The Division's Tax Topic Bulletin S&U-13 (rev. 3/23) says it does not address transient accommodations and points to a separate bulletin on them, which was not read for this layer. The Department of Community Affairs' Local Finance Notice 2026-09 (April 7, 2026) says P.L. 2018, c. 49 and P.L. 2019, c. 235 amended the hotel and motel occupancy fee law to implement sales tax and the State Occupancy Fee on a transient accommodation obtained through a transient space marketplace, or one that is a professionally managed unit. The notice defines a professionally managed unit as a unit that is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by a person offering for rent two or more other units during the calendar year. Because the rate for transient accommodations is not stated on a page that addresses them, this is marked for review. Booking-platform collection is covered in a separate row.

The Division of Taxation's State Occupancy Fee page says the fee is 5% of charges for the rental of hotel and motel rooms that are subject to sales tax, in addition to sales tax and any municipal occupancy tax, and is imposed at a lower rate in cities where hotel and motel occupancies are already subject to a local tax: 1% in Atlantic City, Elizabeth, Newark and Jersey City, and 3.15% in the three Wildwoods. The fee is imposed directly on the occupant and must be shown on the bill as "New Jersey State Occupancy Fee". It is not imposed on an occupancy of at least 90 consecutive days (the permanent resident exemption), on assembly space, or on qualifying government occupants. Bulletin S&U-13 (rev. 3/23) gives the same rates for hotels. The Department of Community Affairs' Local Finance Notice 2026-09 says the State Occupancy Fee applies to transient accommodations obtained through a transient space marketplace or that are professionally managed units; the fee page and bulletin read here describe hotel and motel rooms, so how the rates apply to a short-term rental is marked for review. The fee page was last updated 09/22/25 and shows no effective date for its rates.

The Department of Community Affairs' Local Finance Notice 2026-09 (April 7, 2026) says municipalities that allow short-term rental of transient accommodations are authorized to impose a municipal occupancy tax not to exceed 3% on those transactions, except Newark, Elizabeth, Jersey City, Paterson, Atlantic City, Wildwood, Wildwood Crest and North Wildwood, which are authorized to apply separate hotel or tourism-related statutory taxes to transient accommodation rentals. The notice says the municipal tax applies only to transient accommodations obtained through a transient space marketplace or that are professionally managed units, and that leases of real property with a term of at least 90 consecutive days are not transient accommodations. A new or amended ordinance must be transmitted to the Division of Taxation and does not take effect until 90 days after it is transmitted. The tax must be collected by the person collecting rent from the customer. Tax Topic Bulletin S&U-13 gives the same 3% ceiling and the same list of excluded cities for hotel occupancies. Each municipality's own tax is on its page.

The Department of Community Affairs' Local Finance Notice 2026-09 says that where a transient space marketplace (for example Airbnb) is used, the marketplace is required to collect and pay the municipal occupancy tax for transactions obtained through it on behalf of the person providing the transient accommodation in New Jersey. The marketplace must keep specified booking records (host and guest names, unit address, dates and nightly rates, the municipal registration number if applicable, and listing details) for at least four years after the end of the calendar year of the transaction. The notice describes the municipal occupancy tax of up to 3% under N.J.S.A. 40:48F; it does not address how the separate taxes of the cities it excludes, such as Jersey City, are collected.

Local Finance Notice 2026-09 (April 7, 2026) of the Department of Community Affairs, Division of Local Government Services, says rental of short-term transient accommodations is largely subject to municipal ordinance and quotes N.J.S.A. 40:52-1(n) as authorizing municipalities to issue licenses for rental of real property "for a term less than 175 consecutive days for residential purposes by a person having a permanent place of residence elsewhere". License amounts are to be adopted by the governing body as part of the municipal fee ordinance. The notice adds that many municipalities have adopted ordinances authorizing and regulating short-term rentals through online marketplaces such as Airbnb and VRBO. The statute itself was not read; its wording is taken from the notice. Each municipality's own rules are on its page.