Short-term rentals in Park Township, explained properly.

Sec. 38-521 (Ord. No. 2024-01, effective 4-1-2024) names the C-2 Resort Service zoning district as the one exception to the prohibition. Sec. 8-15 (Ord. No. 2023-02, 6-8-2023) is older and says short-term rentals are not a permitted use in Park Township; Sec. 38-521 is the later zoning rule that names the C-2 exception. The text we saved does not list the conditions, approvals or fees that apply to a short-term rental in C-2.

Sec. 8-1 (amended 6-8-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-02) excludes health, nursing and similar rehabilitation facilities; hotels, motels, resorts, bed and breakfast establishments and campgrounds as defined elsewhere in the Code; employee or client temporary housing; family occupancy; housesitting; and dwelling sales. It defines a short-term rental agent as the individual or entity responsible for managing the short-term rental on behalf of the owner.

Sec. 8-15 (added 6-8-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-02) required the full street address (with unit number), the owner's name and full contact information (phone, email, home address), the short-term rental agent's name and contact information if different from the owner, and the date the rental operation began at that address with that owner. The July 6, 2023 deadline has passed. The same section states that short-term rentals are not a permitted use in Park Township.

Sec. 8-15 (added 6-8-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-02) states this together with the statement that short-term rentals are not a permitted use in Park Township. Sec. 38-521 (effective 4-1-2024) later set the C-2 Resort Service district as the one zoning district where short-term rentals are not prohibited.

MCL 205.93a(1)(b) lists "rooms or lodging" among the services taxed under the Use Tax Act, and defines "hotel" or "motel" to include inns, tourist homes, lodging houses, resort lodges and cabins, and "any other building or group of buildings in which accommodations are available to the public," except accommodations rented for a continuous period of more than 1 month. MCL 205.93(1) sets the combined tax at 6% of the price of the services specified in section 3a. The saved text of both sections is complete. Whether an individual who rents out a home, directly or through a booking platform, is a person furnishing accommodations "available to the public on the basis of a commercial and business enterprise" isn't answered by that text; the Department of Treasury's guidance on short-term rentals wasn't available to us, so confirm with the Department of Treasury. The General Sales Tax Act section we saved (MCL 205.52) is a 6% tax on retail sales of tangible personal property. This page does not total state and local taxes.

The saved section refers to the definition of a marketplace facilitator in section 5c, which wasn't saved. It applies to transactions on or after October 1, 2018. Confirm with the Michigan Department of Treasury and the platform whether tax is collected on a given booking.

These statements come from the titles and section lists of the two acts; the section text (rates, exemptions, the definition of a transient-guest business and any voter approval) wasn't saved, and whether any local tax or assessment applies at a given address hasn't been reviewed. Act 263 was amended in 2024 (Act 35, effective April 2, 2024).

The Zoning Enabling Act is described in its title as codifying the laws on local units of government regulating the development and use of land and providing for the adoption of zoning ordinances, with articles on zoning authorization, adoption and enforcement, special zoning provisions and the zoning board of appeals. Its section text, any pending state bills, and Michigan court rulings on short-term rentals and zoning haven't been reviewed.