§ 447-C SECTION 447-C Registration
RPL § 447-C
§ 447-c. Registration. 1.
(a)All counties that are covered jurisdictions shall be required to establish a registration system for short-term rental units located within such county provided, however, that counties may establish shared registries.
(b)Paragraph (a) of this subdivision shall not apply to any county which, on or before the later of December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-five or nine months after the effective date of this section, adopts a local law stating that such county opts not to establish a registration system for short-term rental units pursuant to this subdivision. No such local law may be adopted after the later of December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-five, or nine months after the effective date of this section, provided, however, that a local law repealing such local law may be adopted after such date.
(c)The establishment of a county or multi-county short-term rental unit registration system pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision shall not prevent any city, town, or village therein from enacting local laws or regulations concerning the operation of short-term rental units within such city, town, or village.
(d)Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article to the contrary, a county, city, town, or village may enact a local law prohibiting or further limiting the listing or use of dwelling units, or portions thereof, as short-term rental units or non-covered short-term rental units, regardless of whether such county, city, town, or village is or is not a covered jurisdiction or located within a covered jurisdiction.
2.Short-term rental hosts shall be required to register a short-term rental unit with the county within which such unit is located or with the multi-county registry that includes such county.
(e)No short-term rental unit shall be registered unless the short-term rental host has paid the application and renewal registration fees in an amount to be established by the county in which the short-term rental unit is located or the multi-county registry that includes such county.
(f)Such application and registration fees shall include a fee for the actual and necessary expenses associated with the construction, operation, and maintenance of the county or multi-county registry and for the enforcement of this article.
(g)Nothing in paragraphs (a) through (f) of this subdivision shall require a short-term rental host or booking service to comply with the requirements of such paragraphs before such time as a county has established a registry or multi-county registry pursuant to paragraph (a) of subdivision one of this section.
3.A county or multi-county registry may create a registration system for booking services.
4.If a county creates a registration system for booking services pursuant to subdivision three of this section, the county within which a short-term rental unit is located or the multi-county registry that includes such county shall set a fee for booking service registration with the county or multi-county registry that includes such county, provided that such fee shall not exceed the actual and necessary expenses associated with the construction, operation, and maintenance of such booking services registration system.
5.Nothing herein shall prevent one or more counties that are covered jurisdictions from establishing shared registration systems for short-term rental units and/or booking services, provided any amount allocated from the application and registration fees for the construction, operation and maintenance of such shared short-term rental unit and/or booking service registration systems shall be remitted pursuant to the agreement establishing such multi-county registry.
6.Each county that is a covered jurisdiction shall post on its website a prominent link to its registry or the multi-county registry in which it is included.
