Short-term rentals in Jurupa Valley, explained properly.

Sec. 4.15.025 says hosting platforms, subject to applicable laws, shall disclose to the City on a regular basis each residential property listing in the City, the names of the persons responsible, the address, the length of stay and the price paid for each stay. A hosting platform shall not complete any booking transaction for a dwelling or property purporting to be a short-term rental business, and shall not collect fees for services ancillary to a residential property rental such as insurance, concierge services, catering, tours, cleaning or property management. A platform operating exclusively on the internet in compliance with these subsections is presumed to be in compliance with the chapter, but the host remains responsible for compliance with the administrative subpoena provisions. The section is interpreted in accordance with state and federal law and does not apply if the City determines it is preempted by such law.

Sec. 4.15.030 declares a violation unlawful and a public nuisance that may be abated and enjoined. A violation is an infraction offense and may be prosecuted as a misdemeanor at the discretion of the City Attorney, and each violation is a separate offense punishable under Section 1.15.010. An enforcement officer may issue an administrative citation under Chapter 1.20 in place of, or in addition to, other remedies. The administrative fine is $200, which may increase on separate events to $500 and $1,000, or an amount set by a City Council resolution under Section 1.20.060, and the City may increase fines for repeat violations. A written notice of violation may be issued to an occupant, responsible person, local contact person, owner, owner's authorized agent or representative, or hosting platform. The City may also issue administrative subpoenas for the names of persons responsible for listings, addresses, lengths of stay and prices paid; information is due no sooner than 30 days from service of a subpoena and the recipient may seek judicial review in that period. Chapters 1.15, 1.20 and the resolution fine schedule haven't been reviewed yet, so the current resolution amount is not shown here.

California Revenue and Taxation Code section 7280 lets the legislative body of any city, county, or city and county levy a tax on the privilege of occupying a room or other living space in a hotel, inn, tourist home or house, motel or other lodging, unless the stay is longer than 30 days. A county's tax applies only in its unincorporated areas. The rate, registration and filing rules are set by each city or county, so the local tax is shown in the city's own section of this page.

Government Code sections 50990 to 50996 (Senate Bill 346, 2025) apply only in a city or county that adopts an ordinance making them apply. Where they apply, a booking platform must, on the local agency's request, report the physical address with nine-digit ZIP code of each short-term rental it facilitated (no more often than every 3 months, or monthly if the local tax is remitted monthly), and must include in each listing any applicable local license number and any transient occupancy tax certification issued by the local agency. The local agency may fine a platform that does not report. The act does not stop a city or county from regulating short-term rentals, platforms or tax collection in other ways.

Government Code section 66333(g) requires a city's junior accessory dwelling unit ordinance to require that a rental of a junior ADU be for a term longer than 30 days (as amended by Assembly Bill 1154, in force January 1, 2026). Section 66323(e) requires a city to require that a rental of an ADU created under that section (the ministerial, by-right approvals) be for a term longer than 30 days. For other ADUs on a lot with a single-family home, section 66315 bars standards beyond section 66314, including owner occupancy, except that a city may require that the property be used for rentals of terms 30 days or longer. Cities can be stricter in their own codes; see the city section.

Civil Code section 4741 says an owner in a common interest development is not subject to a governing-document provision that prohibits, has the effect of prohibiting, or unreasonably restricts renting or leasing a separate interest, ADU or junior ADU, and an association may not cap rentals below 25 percent of the separate interests. The same section says it does not prohibit an association from adopting and enforcing a provision that prohibits transient or short-term rental of a separate property interest for 30 days or less. Check your association's governing documents.

Civil Code section 1940 applies the chapter on hiring of real property (Civil Code sections 1940 to 1954.071) to tenants, lessees, boarders, lodgers and others who hire dwelling units, but excludes a person in transient occupancy in a hotel, motel, residence club or other facility when the stay is or would be subject to a transient occupancy tax under Revenue and Taxation Code section 7280 (stays of 30 days or less). Stays longer than that are not covered by this exclusion.

In a December 6, 2016 letter to coastal cities and counties, the California Coastal Commission said that regulating short-term or vacation rentals in the coastal zone must happen within the local coastal program or under a coastal development permit, because it changes the intensity of use and access to the shoreline and so counts as development under the Coastal Act. The Commission said it does not believe outright bans adopted outside that process are legally enforceable in the coastal zone, that it has not historically supported blanket bans, and that it has supported limits such as caps on numbers by area, limits on days, occupancy limits, 24-hour response, parking, noise and signage rules and payment of transient occupancy tax. This applies only to places inside the coastal zone.