Short-term rentals in Rocklin, explained properly.

Section 5.22.080(D) sets the limit at 90 days per year. Section 5.22.090 lets the director of community development limit a permit by any condition reasonably necessary to preserve the intent of the chapter, including reducing the number of days in a year that the permittee may provide lodging. The text read does not say how the 90 days are counted, so ask the Community Development Department how the City counts them.

Sections 5.22.020 and 5.22.080(C) both bar renting a dwelling unit and an accessory dwelling unit on the same parcel, stating the intent that one dwelling is rented on a short-term basis per parcel. A parcel is property assigned a separate parcel number by the Placer County assessor. State law on short-term rentals in ADUs and junior ADUs also applies; see the California section.

Section 5.22.030 says the short-term rental permit cannot be sold, transferred or assigned to any other person. The permit is issued to the property owner and expires 24 months after issuance unless renewed.

Section 5.22.080(B) bars renting a short-term rental to a person under the age of 21, and bars renting to a person who is not also lodging there.

Section 5.22.080(A) bars a permittee from providing lodging for compensation to more than six people, or two people per number of bedrooms, whichever is greater, at any time, and from allowing guests in excess of that limit after 10:00 p.m. The director of community development may also reduce the number of guests as a permit condition (Sec. 5.22.090).

Section 5.22.060 requires a nonrefundable application fee, set by City Council resolution and amended from time to time, with every permit application. It is in addition to the business license tax if applicable, the transient occupancy tax and any other license, permit fee or penalty fee. A renewal application must be filed at least 30 calendar days before the permit expires, and a late renewal carries a penalty in an amount set by City Council resolution. The fee amounts were not part of the pages read.

Section 5.22.080(E) sets the 30-minute response. The application lists the permittee's name, address and telephone number and, if the permittee is not located onsite, the name, address and 24-hour telephone number of a secondary point of contact. The director of community development may also require the permittee to notify the City of the short-term rental facilitator's name and contact information.

Section 5.22.070 requires the register to hold, for each person who stays: name; address; vehicle year, make, model and color; license plate; state in which the vehicle is registered; date of arrival; date of departure; number of guests; and the rent paid for each night of lodging. The register is kept for 18 months and is available for inspection by the director of community development and the Rocklin Police Department.

Section 5.22.080(F). The director of community development may also limit the number of vehicles that may park at the rental as a permit condition (Sec. 5.22.090). Parking counts are not given in the pages read.

Section 5.22.080(I) bars a permittee from allowing any special event that would otherwise require a City permit. Section 5.22.080(J) bars posting on the exterior of the rental or the parcel any sign or writing visible from outside that says the dwelling is available for rent.

Section 5.22.080(G) and (H). Booking platforms (short-term rental facilitators) must also include the City permit number, any business license number and any transient occupancy tax registration or certification number in each listing (Sec. 5.22.160).

Section 5.22.140 makes the Short-Term Rental Facilitator Act of 2025 (Government Code section 50990 and following) applicable in Rocklin. Under Section 5.22.150, on written request a facilitator reports the physical address, with nine-digit ZIP code, of each short-term rental in the City, no more often than quarterly unless the City requires monthly tax remittance. Under Section 5.22.160 a facilitator may not advertise or accept bookings for a rental without a valid City permit number in the listing and must remove or deactivate listings that fail to show one when the City gives notice. Section 5.22.170 lets the City audit tax records where a facilitator collects and remits transient occupancy tax.

Section 5.22.080(K). The chapter's stated purpose (Sec. 5.22.010) is that short-term rentals operate consistently with existing local, state and federal law.

Section 5.22.130 says violation of any provision may be charged as an administrative citation, misdemeanor or infraction, and declares violations a public nuisance. A nuisance may also be deemed to exist if operation results in an excessive number of law enforcement responses, disruption to the free passage of persons or vehicles in the neighborhood, or other disruptive impacts. Remedies are cumulative, and the City may also use remedies available under state law. Fine amounts were not part of the pages read.

Section 5.22.090 lets the director suspend, revoke or add conditions if the permittee or the permittee's facilitator violated the chapter or other law. Section 5.22.100 lists grounds for denial, including an incomplete application, a false or misleading statement, a pending violation or investigation, delinquent City fees or taxes, a prior revocation or suspension of a permit for the dwelling, owner or permittee, a threat to public health, safety or welfare, and unpaid fees. Section 5.22.120 allows immediate suspension, revocation or conditioning where necessary to protect public health, safety or welfare, with a later hearing on request. Section 5.22.110 lets a permittee appeal a denial, suspension, revocation or condition under Chapter 5.01.

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.