Short-term rentals in Minerva Park, explained properly.

Section 810.04(a) sets an application fee of $250 for a permit or a renewal and gives Village council authority to amend the amount from time to time. The fee comes from Ordinance No. 10-2024 (May 9, 2024). We haven't reviewed a Village fee schedule or later council action yet, so confirm the current amount with the Village.

Section 810.03(c) requires renewal before the end of each calendar year, with the renewal deadline on the first Monday of November of the year the registration is set to expire. A registration that is not renewed expires on December 31. A renewed registration runs January 1 to December 31 of the next year.

Section 810.04(b) lists the applicant's name, address, phone and email; information showing compliance with the occupancy or ownership requirement of section 810.02; the names of all hosting platforms and proof of rental insurance for the unit; the names of other advertising outlets if no platform is used; the maximum occupants; the maximum vehicles; and an affidavit that the operation complies with applicable local, state and federal laws on sleeping accommodations for transient guests. Section 810.04(e) adds a contact name and number for the rental host and permanent occupant that works 24/7. Changes to the application information must be reported to the mayor or designee within ten (10) days.

Section 810.04(b)(5) requires the application to state the maximum occupants, not to exceed two (2) per bedroom. Exceeding the registered maximum is a listed ground for revoking the registration (section 810.07(a)(2)).

Section 810.04(b)(6) caps the vehicle number at the number that can be garaged on the premises, plus two (2) that may park in a driveway, plus two (2) that may park on-street. Parking more vehicles than the registered number is a listed ground for revocation (section 810.07(a)(3)).

Section 810.05(b) requires hosts to retain these records and make them available on request to show compliance. A host who is not the owner but a permanent occupant must also get the owner's permission to register the dwelling on a hosting platform or advertise it (section 810.05(a)(2)).

Section 810.09 lists race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, familial status and military status.

Section 810.06 says the mayor or designee shall approve a registration or renewal except where a denial ground applies. Evidence of that conduct need only be a de facto violation of law, and a conviction is not a prerequisite unless the section specifically says so.

Section 810.07(a) lets the mayor or designee revoke a registration when a unit perpetuates conditions interfering with the use and enjoyment of nearby property, including noise audible beyond the property boundary, occupancy above the registered maximum, parking above the registered maximum, uninvited entry onto private property within 500 feet, or the primary occupant not being present during the rental. Section 810.07(b) sets progressive discipline: the first violation ends the registration with a six (6) month bar from re-registering, the second a one (1) year bar, and the third a permanent bar.

Section 810.99 makes a violation an unclassified misdemeanor with a fine of not more than $250.00, and not more than $1,000.00 for subsequent convictions, in addition to any other penalties in the chapter.

The Department of Taxation's taxability guide lists hotel room rentals as taxable for stays under 30 days in facilities with 5 or more sleeping rooms. Its information release on bed and breakfasts quotes the Ohio Revised Code definition of a hotel (an establishment where sleeping accommodations are offered to guests and five or more rooms are used for guests, in one or several structures) and of transient guests (stays of less than thirty consecutive days), and says a bed and breakfast with fewer than five rooms available to transient guests is not a hotel and does not have to charge the tax on the room; food served on the premises is still taxed unless room and meal charges are separated. The Department gives the state sales tax rate as 5.75 percent. The information release dates from 1995 and cites older letters of R.C. 5739.01; the current text of the Revised Code could not be read for this page. How a whole-home short-term rental counts its rooms is not addressed by the sources read; check with the Department of Taxation. City and county lodging taxes are shown on each place's page.

Since September 1, 2019, a marketplace facilitator that meets substantial nexus in Ohio is treated as the seller for the sales it facilitates and must collect and pay Ohio sales tax on them. The Department of Taxation says that, to count as facilitating a sale, the marketplace must be selling a taxable good or service used or received in Ohio, and that this excludes lodging by a hotel. The Department pages read do not say whether booking platforms collect state sales tax on stays at short-term rentals that are hotels (five or more rooms); check with the platform and the Department. City rules on platform collection of city lodging taxes are shown on each place's page.