§ 17-02 Reporting Requirements for Booking Services.
RCNY § 17-02
1.A booking service shall submit to the administering agency a report of transactions associated with a qualifying listing for which it charged, collected or received a fee, directly or indirectly, for activity described in the definition of booking service, except for those transactions described in 43 RCNY § 17-05. Each short-term rental associated with such fee is considered to be a separate transaction. Such report shall include the following information: a. The physical address of the short-term rental associated with such transaction, including the street name, street number, apartment or unit number, borough or county, and ZIP code; b. The full legal name, physical address, phone number and email address of the host of such short-term rental and the uniform resource locator (URL) and the individualized name and number of such host on such booking service's platform; c. The individualized name and number and the URL of the associated qualifying listing; d. A statement as to whether such short-term rental transaction involved the: (i) short-term rental of the entirety of a dwelling unit or housing accommodations in a building or (ii) short-term rental of part of such unit or housing accommodations; e. The total number of days that the dwelling unit, part thereof or housing accommodations in a building were rented as a short-term rental through such booking service's platform; and f. If such booking service collects rent for short-term rentals on behalf of such host, (i) the total amount of such rent received by such booking service and transmitted to such host and (ii) the account name and consistently anonymized identifier for the account number for the account used by such host to receive payments from such booking service or, if such booking service provides an explanation why such anonymized identifiers are unavailable, the account name and account number for such account, provided that a booking service shall, considering its technical capacity, de-identify the account number to the greatest extent possible so as to protect the privacy and security of the account number. De-identification of a unique account number shall be consistent from report to report.
2.In instances where any of the above information is unavailable to the booking service, the booking service shall provide an explanation of why such information is unavailable.
3.A booking service need not report any information for transactions associated with a qualifying listing when all such transactions within a reporting period result in the rental of a dwelling unit or housing accommodation for an aggregate of four days or less.
4.The reports shall be submitted on a quarterly basis. With the exception of the initial reporting period, the reporting periods shall consist of the following quarters: January 1 to March 31; April 1 to June 30; July 1 to September 30; and October 1 to December 31. The initial reporting period shall begin when Local Law 64 for the year of 2020 takes effect on January 3, 2021, and end on March 31, 2021.
5.Each report shall cover transactions occurring during a period that begins with the first day of a reporting period and ends with the last day of that reporting period.
6.A transaction related to a short-term rental that begins in one reporting period but ends in a subsequent reporting period shall be included in the report covering the reporting period in which such rental concludes.
7.The initial report shall be submitted not more than 60 calendar days after the conclusion of the initial reporting period. Following the initial report, a booking service must submit the report to the administering agency not more than 45 calendar days after the conclusion of the reporting period. (Added City Record 12/4/2020, eff. 1/3/2020)
