Chambly, Canada Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a place in Chambly, Canada and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that you can, and Quebec law goes a step further than most places by protecting that right, though only for one shape of listing: the home you actually live in. Chambly sits on the Richelieu in the MRC de La Vallée-du-Richelieu, inside Quebec's Montérégie region, and like every municipality in the province it works underneath the Loi sur l'hébergement touristique, which lets you register your own principal residence and rent it to tourists for stays of 31 days or less.

The catch arrives the second the property stops being your home. A unit you don't live in is a different creature in Chambly's zoning bylaw, a résidence de tourisme, and that use sits in the commercial lodging class, which the city's own zoning grids permit in exactly two of its 268 zones. Unfortunately for anyone shopping for a Chambly condo to run at nightly rates, that leaves almost nowhere to put it. Even the permitted route isn't cheap, since the city charges $300 for its occupancy certificate on top of the $54 the province wants for registration.

So let's walk through what it actually takes to do this properly: which of the two legal shapes your plan fits, what Chambly's permit involves in 2026, what the province asks for, the three layers of tax stacked on a nightly stay, and who to call when something doesn't line up. Every figure below comes from Chambly's own bylaws or from Quebec government pages, checked in July 2026, and where I couldn't confirm something I've said so rather than guessing. Before you spend a dollar on any of it, run the property through BNBCalc first.

What are Short-Term Rental (Airbnb, VRBO) Regulations in Chambly, Canada?

Before those numbers mean much, you need to know which of the two shapes your property fits, because the rules split hard at that point and nothing later in the process softens the split.

Two instruments do nearly all the work, and neither of them is a short-term rental bylaw as such. Chambly publishes no dedicated page about Airbnb, and its regulation index lists nothing with "hébergement" in the title. What it does carry is a zoning bylaw deciding where a tourist rental may exist at all, and a permits bylaw deciding what you have to hold before the first guest arrives.

The provincial floor comes first. Article 4 of the Loi sur l'hébergement touristique makes registration with the Minister of Tourism a condition of operating a tourist accommodation establishment, and Québec's registration page states the test plainly: you register if you offer at least one accommodation unit to tourists, for payment, for periods of 31 days or less. Three categories exist, and only one of them is open to an ordinary homeowner. That's the établissement de résidence principale, or principal-residence establishment, which means you're a natural person renting accommodation inside the home where you habitually live, through a single reservation at a time, to one person or one group of related people, with no meals served on site.

Chambly copied that definition into its zoning bylaw 2020-1431 word for word, as amendment R. 2023-1431-25A, and then did nothing further with it. The term appears in the definitions chapter and is never restricted anywhere in the rest of the consolidated text, which runs past 100,000 words. That silence is the province's doing rather than an oversight, because article 23 of the Act says no provision of a municipal planning bylaw may have the effect of prohibiting an establishment of exactly that description. A Quebec city can still get there, yet only by adopting a zoning or conditional-use amendment through the full public process, and Chambly hasn't done it.

Where the operator doesn't live in the unit, though, the same bylaw files the listing under use 5834, "Résidence de tourisme, appartement, maison ou chalet", which belongs to the class commerce hébergement (C-5) alongside hotels, motels, inns and farm lodging. C-5 is an ordinary commercial class, so it exists only where a zoning grid says it does. Going through all 268 grids in Annexe B of the zoning bylaw, the class is marked as permitted in two of them: zone C-020 and zone P-065, both inside the landscape area the bylaw labels "centre-ville et secteur récréotouristique", and both carrying architectural review under the city's PIIA rules.

An older option survives alongside both of those. A gîte touristique, a bed and breakfast in the traditional sense, is allowed by article 146 of the zoning bylaw as a domestic use in a single-family dwelling, capped at five rooms for rent, with parking supplied on your own land over and above what the house already needs, a common room for guests, and a dedicated check-in area. Renting rooms without the breakfast is narrower still, since article 145 caps you at two rooms and 40 square metres of floor area, and bars kitchen equipment in a rented room.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in Chambly

The shape of the business follows straight from that split, and unfortunately for most people who arrive here with an investment plan, it follows in a direction they were hoping to avoid.

Buy a Chambly condo or a second house, furnish it, list it whole at nightly rates, and you've described a résidence de tourisme. That use has two zones to live in out of 268, both in the small downtown and waterfront pocket around the bassin, and both reviewable on design grounds before anything issues. No amount of paperwork moves a use into a zone that doesn't list it, and the remedies that do exist, a zoning amendment or a special-project bylaw (what Quebec calls a PPCMOI), are council-level processes with public consultation attached rather than something you file with a fee.

The scale of what's actually operating there tells the same story. The Ministère du Tourisme publishes its SIT Québec accommodation data on Données Québec, and in the chalets, apartments and tourist residences dataset refreshed on 16 August 2026, filtering 13,671 rows down to Chambly returns exactly two establishments, both registered as general tourist accommodation: number 316210 with four units, and number 321775 with one. The ministry's hotel file and its gîte file return nothing in Chambly whatsoever. Do keep in mind what that dataset is, though, because SIT Québec is the ministry's tourism information system rather than the registration register itself. Treat those two as the marketed commercial segment, not as a headcount of every registered establishment in town.

What's genuinely open is the version where you live there. Register your own home, hold Chambly's certificate, and you can rent it to tourists in any zone in the city, since article 23 takes that decision away from the municipality entirely. The revenue you'd be modelling is your own house while you're away, or a part of it while you're home, which is a real business for plenty of people and a poor fit for a spreadsheet built around a second property.

Assuming the numbers only worked on a unit you'd never live in, the neighbouring markets are still worth pulling up before you abandon the idea. Our Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu guide covers the larger Richelieu-valley city to the south, and the Granby guide covers a town whose tourism draw is a good deal stronger than Chambly's. Both sit under the same provincial statute, so the thing you're really shopping for is the municipal zoning rather than the law.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirement in Chambly

Assuming your own home is the property in question and you're able to get that far, there's still a municipal permit waiting, and it's the piece almost every secondary write-up about Chambly leaves out.

Article 43 of Chambly's permits and certificates bylaw 2017-1353 lists the occasions that require a certificat d'occupation, and paragraph 8, added by amendment R. 2023-1353-03A in force on 20 March 2023, names one of them as "la location à court terme (31 jours et moins) d'un établissement de résidence principale". Chambly has therefore had its own short-term rental permit since March 2023. Chapter 15 of the same bylaw prices it at $300, which sits against $25 for an ordinary commercial occupancy certificate in a residential zone and $50 anywhere else, so the city charges roughly twelve times more for this one. Fees are payable before your file is even examined, and the bylaw says outright that they aren't refundable, including where the project turns out not to comply.

Article 45 then sets what has to be true before the certificate can issue, and two of these catch people out:

• The proposed use has to conform to the city's planning bylaws, which is where the municipal conformity document the province wants comes from.
• Your file has to be complete and the fee paid.
• The building's safety has to be assured.
• The use has to take place in a main building, so a detached garage, a garden studio or a converted shed is out.
• The Service des incendies has to have issued an inspection certificate confirming the premises meet the minimum fire-prevention standards.

That last one is a separate visit from a separate department, so build it into your timeline rather than treating the $300 as the whole story. The bylaw sets no express expiry for an occupancy certificate itself, and article 75 prices a first renewal at the original amount, but article 43 does force a fresh certificate whenever the owner or the person responsible for the establishment changes. Selling the house means the buyer starts over.

Timing has moved recently, and not in your favour. Chambly's permit page describes a four-step online process through the Espace Chambly portal, with payment by card at submission and a normal turnaround of one to two weeks. A notice dated 28 April 2026 on that same page says the urbanisme department is running with reduced staff, so expect three business days for a reply to a call or an email and up to three weeks for a permit to be processed. You can also file in person at 56 rue Martel with your documents in hand.

Sitting above all of that is the provincial registration, which you can't skip and can't substitute. The certificate is issued through the CITQ, it's valid for 12 months and re-issued by email at each annual renewal, and it has to be displayed where tourists can see it at your establishment's main entrance. CITQ's fee schedule has been unchanged since 1 January 2026, and as of July 2026 it charges the same for a new registration and a renewal alike: $54 for a principal-residence establishment, $131 for youth accommodation, and $156 for a general establishment. Remember that the number and the certificate's expiry date have to appear in every advertisement you run, because a platform is barred from publishing the listing without them.

Required Documents for Chambly Short-Term Rentals

Since neither the $300 nor the $54 comes back, it's worth getting the paperwork right the first time. Two separate lists apply, one municipal and one provincial, and they ask for different things.

Article 44 of the permits bylaw governs the city's side. The application goes in writing on Chambly's own form, signed, and it has to carry:

• The names, addresses and telephone numbers of the applicant, the owner, and the person responsible for the establishment.
• A description of the activities you're planning.
• The address and telephone number of the place of operation.
• A copy of your business-name registration.
• Any document establishing the rental value of the premises.
• A site plan showing where the parking spaces sit.

The province's list is longer and sits on Québec's registration page, which was last updated on 13 August 2026. Before you submit, you need an official document from the competent municipal authority confirming your project complies with the planning bylaws in force, which in Chambly is the urbanisme department's job. Along with that document, the province asks for:

• Proof of ownership, your municipal tax bill, or your lease.
• Civil liability insurance of at least $2,000,000 per event, covering bodily injury or property damage caused while you operate.
• The clauses of your lease or your divided co-ownership declaration allowing tourist accommodation, or failing that a written authorisation from the owner or the syndicate of co-owners.
• One photograph of the exterior and one of the interior.

Two of those requirements are tightening later this year, so be aware of the dates if your renewal falls near them. Under the amendments announced on 25 March 2026, from 1 September 2026 anyone registering or renewing a principal-residence establishment must supply two proofs of principal residence rather than one, and the owner or the co-ownership syndicate must provide written consent at every annual renewal instead of only at first registration, on standardised forms. Renters and condo owners are the ones who feel that second change, since a landlord or a board that agreed once now gets asked again every year.

Chambly Short-Term Rental Taxes

Assuming you clear both document lists and manage to open for bookings, there's still tax to deal with, and three separate charges attach to a nightly stay in Chambly. Two governments administer them, which is why the collection rules don't line up neatly.

Charge	Rate	Collected by
Taxe sur l'hébergement	3.5% of the nightly price	The platform where it holds the payment, otherwise you
GST	5%	You, or the platform if you're not registered
QST	9.975%	You, or the platform if you're not registered

The lodging tax is the Quebec-specific one. Revenu Québec sets it at 3.5% of the nightly price, calculated on the room rate alone, so breakfast, parking and anything else bundled into the booking come out of the base first. It applies only in tourism regions that asked for it, and Montérégie is on Revenu Québec's list of the 21 regions where the tax is in force. Nunavik is the only region in the province where it isn't. GST and QST are then calculated on the total including that 3.5%, which is a small compounding effect people forget to build into a nightly rate.

Who hands the money over depends on how you take bookings. Where a platform registered to the lodging-tax file receives the full payment from the guest, the platform collects, reports and remits the lodging tax rather than you. Airbnb has done this in Quebec since 1 October 2017 under an agreement signed on 29 August 2017, remitting quarterly by region and charging from the first night, and hosts who book exclusively through Airbnb don't have to register for the lodging tax at all. Take a single direct booking outside that, though, and the obligation lands back on you.

Some stays fall outside the lodging tax entirely, and the exclusions are worth knowing before you set a minimum-night rule. Revenu Québec's page on which establishments are covered takes out camping, youth accommodation, stays of six hours or less, stays running more than 31 consecutive days, and genuinely irregular one-off rentals such as letting your house once a year during a festival. A guest who stays 32 nights straight is outside the tax; a guest who stays 31 is inside it.

GST and QST work on their own threshold. You're generally required to register once your taxable sales pass $30,000 over four consecutive calendar quarters, which is the federal small-supplier test, and below that line the platform collects the federal tax for you under the Canada Revenue Agency's rules for platform-based short-term accommodation. One federal rule can cost you more than any of these tax rates. Section 67.7 of the Income Tax Act denies your deductions altogether for a non-compliant short-term rental, meaning one in a place that doesn't permit it or one that fails a registration, licensing or permit requirement. So skip Chambly's $300 certificate and the municipal fine becomes the smaller problem, because the CRA can then disallow every expense you meant to deduct.

One thing I couldn't pin down: whether holding a registered principal-residence rental changes your property's municipal tax class in Chambly. Longueuil publishes an explicit statement that short-term rental is a business activity attracting non-residential rates, and nothing equivalent appears on any Chambly page I was able to read, so do check it with the city rather than assuming your bill stays where it is.

Quebec Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

Those tax rules sit inside a provincial framework that changed twice in four years, and understanding the sequence explains most of what confuses people about Quebec.

The Loi sur l'hébergement touristique replaced the old establishments act on 1 September 2022 and created the three registration categories, including the principal-residence category that had no real equivalent before. Article 5 is the one that ties the province to your city, since a registration application has to include a document from a competent authority showing the operation doesn't contravene the zoning bylaw made under the Loi sur l'aménagement et l'urbanisme. Municipal zoning is a precondition of a provincial number, in other words, not a parallel track you can settle later.

Then came the enforcement layer. Amendments in 2023 added article 20.1, which bars a digital accommodation platform from publishing an offer that lacks the establishment's registration number and its certificate expiry date, and from allowing a rental contract of under 32 days for an establishment that isn't registered or whose registration has expired, been suspended or been cancelled. That's what turned a paper duty into a commercial one. An unregistered Chambly listing doesn't get quietly ignored by Airbnb or Vrbo; it can't take the booking.

Article 23 is the provision doing the most work for a Chambly homeowner, and it cuts both ways. It stops a municipal planning bylaw from prohibiting a principal-residence establishment, yet the second paragraph leaves the door open: a city can introduce a restriction through a zoning or conditional-use amendment adopted under the planning act's normal process, and the number of signatures needed to force a referendum on that amendment is cut by 50%. So the protection you're relying on is real today and removable by a council vote and a public process tomorrow.

The penalties are set out in the Act itself and administered provincially, with Québec's own offences page confirming the bands:

• Operating an unregistered establishment, filing a false document, or putting a false or expired registration number in a listing: $2,500 to $25,000 for an individual, $5,000 to $50,000 otherwise.
• Operating after a registration has been refused, suspended or cancelled: $5,000 to $50,000 for an individual, $10,000 to $100,000 otherwise.
• Failing to show the registration number in advertising, or carrying less than the $2,000,000 in liability cover: $1,000 to $10,000 for an individual, $2,000 to $20,000 otherwise.
• A platform breaching its verification duties: $5,000 to $50,000 for an individual, $10,000 to $100,000 otherwise.

The most recent change landed on 25 March 2026 and takes effect in two stages. From 9 April 2026 your registration number and your establishment's name have to appear distinctement in all promotional material, social media included, and the certificate goes at your own main entrance rather than the building's. From 1 September 2026 the two-proof and annual-consent requirements described earlier apply. If you've registered a Quebec property at any point since 2022 and haven't looked at the rules since, that's the pair to go back and check.

Worth noting how different this is from the other provinces, because Quebec's model gets compared to British Columbia's constantly and they aren't alike. BC runs a provincial registry with a principal-residence requirement imposed from above, which municipalities opt into or out of. Quebec registers everyone and leaves the principal-residence question to a statutory protection instead. Our Abbotsford guide and Chilliwack guide show what the BC version looks like on the ground if you're comparing provinces before buying.

Does Chambly Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

Enforcement in Chambly is worth separating from enforcement in Quebec, because the two happen at different addresses and only one of them has real numbers behind it.

Start with the province, since that's where the pressure actually comes from. Québec's own offences page states that Revenu Québec is responsible for inspections and investigations under the tourist accommodation regime, and Revenu Québec publishes the results. In the year to 31 March 2025 its inspectors ran 2,875 inspections province-wide, found 994 non-compliant, served 1,398 tickets under the Act, obtained 937 convictions and imposed $3,482,379 in fines. The year before that the figure was just under $5 million. Those numbers cover all of Quebec, so nothing in them is Chambly-specific, yet they set the scale: this is a routine, funded inspection programme rather than a complaint-driven one, and inspectors can arrive unannounced at any reasonable hour.

Reporting a non-compliant listing is deliberately easy, too, which changes the risk profile for anyone hoping to fly under the radar. Revenu Québec takes anonymous reports from citizens and municipalities through its general whistleblower programme on a toll-free line, and the register of registered establishments is public, so a neighbour can check your address before picking up the phone.

Chambly's own tools are more modest and more local. A breach of the zoning bylaw draws a fine of $100 to $1,000 for an individual and $300 to $2,000 for a company on a first offence, rising to $500 to $2,000 and $1,000 to $4,000 for subsequent offences, and the permits bylaw carries a matching schedule. The part to watch is that a continuing breach counts as a separate offence for each day it lasts, so a listing that stays up through an argument with the city accumulates exposure daily rather than once.

The political history explains why the city hasn't built anything heavier. In February 2023 the Journal de Chambly reported that the city was preparing a framework and considering allowing short-term rental only north of boulevard De Périgny, near the bassin, with a public consultation to follow. Mayor Alexandra Labbé put the intent as "on veut encadrer cette pratique pour mieux la permettre", roughly "we want to frame the practice so we can permit it better". By October the city had dropped the idea, with the mayor saying "à Chambly, seuls quatre logements sont concernés. Cela ne sert à rien de légiférer", that only four dwellings were involved and legislating served no purpose. The city reserved the right to come back to it if housing pressure showed up in a particular sector.

Read that carefully, because it isn't the reprieve it looks like. What Chambly declined to do was add a new restriction on top of the zoning it already has. The two-zone limit on commercial lodging and the $300 certificate were both already in place when that decision was taken, and neither depended on it.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in Chambly

Given how much of the outcome is decided by which of the two shapes you fit, the order of the steps below matters more than it looks. The early ones tell you whether the later ones are worth paying for.

1. Settle whether this is your principal residence. The province defines it as the home where you habitually live and centralise your family and social activities, matching the address you give most government departments. Everything else in this list branches off that answer.
2. If it isn't your home, check the zone before anything else. Look up your address against the zoning grids and the urbanisme department's interactive map. A résidence de tourisme needs a zone permitting the C-5 commercial lodging class, and only C-020 and P-065 do.
3. Read your lease or your co-ownership declaration. You'll be filing the clause that permits tourist accommodation, or a written authorisation from the owner or the syndicate, and from 1 September 2026 you'll be filing that consent again at every renewal.
4. Get the municipal conformity document from the Service de l'urbanisme. The province won't process a registration without it, and it's the step that confirms the city agrees your project fits the bylaws.
5. Book the fire inspection. The Service des incendies has to certify the premises against the minimum fire-prevention standards before an occupancy certificate can issue, so start it early rather than after you apply.
6. Apply for Chambly's certificat d'occupation and pay the $300. File through Espace Chambly or in person at 56 rue Martel, with the article 44 documents assembled. Don't forget that the fee is charged before your file is examined and isn't refundable.
7. Register with the CITQ and pay the $54. Attach the conformity document, your proof of ownership or lease, your $2,000,000 liability certificate, the co-ownership or landlord authorisation, and your two photographs.
8. Put the number and the expiry date in every listing. Since 9 April 2026 the number and the establishment's name have to appear distinctly in all promotional material, social media included, and the certificate goes at your main entrance.
9. Sort out tax before the first guest. Check whether your platform holds the payment and remits the 3.5% lodging tax, watch the $30,000 GST and QST threshold, and keep the compliance paperwork, because section 67.7 ties your deductions to it.
10. Diarise the annual renewal. The CITQ certificate runs 12 months, the renewal costs the same $54, and from September 2026 you'll need the fresh owner consent and the second residency proof each time.

Who to Contact in Chambly about Short-Term Rental Regulations and Zoning?

Whichever of those steps stalls, four offices handle nearly everything between them, and knowing which one owns your question saves a lot of time on hold.

Zoning, permits and the occupancy certificate

The Service de l'urbanisme, de l'environnement et du développement économique issues permits and certificates, answers zoning questions, and produces the municipal conformity document the province asks for.

• Address: Centre administratif et communautaire, 56, rue Martel, Chambly (Québec) J3L 1V3
• Phone: 450 658-0537
• Email: [email protected]
• Hours: Monday to Thursday, 8:15 a.m. to noon and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Friday, 8:00 a.m. to noon
• Apply online: the Espace Chambly permit portal

The city's general switchboard is 450 658-8788 and general enquiries go to [email protected]. Expect the three-business-day reply window described on the permit page while the department is short-staffed.

The fire inspection

The Service de sécurité incendie issues the inspection certificate that article 45 requires before an occupancy certificate can be granted.

• Address: Caserne Serge-Caron, temporarily relocated during works to 2500, boulevard Industriel, Chambly (Québec) J3L 4V2
• Phone: 450 658-0662
• Email: [email protected]
• Hours: Monday to Thursday, 8:15 a.m. to noon and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Friday, 8:00 a.m. to noon

Provincial registration

The Corporation de l'industrie touristique du Québec (CITQ) processes registrations, renewals and certificates for principal-residence, general and youth establishments.

• Address: 1010, rue De Sérigny, bureau 810, Longueuil (Québec) J4K 5G7
• Phone: 450 679-3737, or toll-free 1 866 499-0550
• Fax: 450 679-1489
• Email: [email protected]

Policy questions about the registration regime itself, as opposed to your individual file, go to the Ministère du Tourisme at [email protected].

Complaints, enforcement and police

Compliance with the tourist accommodation Act belongs to Revenu Québec, which takes anonymous reports on 1 855 208-1131, Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with a TTY service on 514 873-4455 or 1 800 361-3795. Written reports go to Revenu Québec, 3 800, rue de Marly, secteur 4-1-4 Ouest, C.P. 25222, Succursale Terminus, Québec (Québec) G1A 0B5.

Noise, parties and anything needing an officer are handled by the Régie intermunicipale de police Richelieu-Saint-Laurent, which covers Chambly as part of Secteur 3 alongside Richelieu, Carignan and Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu.

• Administration and investigations: 1578, chemin du Fer-à-Cheval, Sainte-Julie (Québec) J3E 0A2, 450 922-7001
• Gendarmerie division: 333, rue Hertel, Belœil (Québec) J3G 3N3, 450 536-3333
• Emergencies: 911

Municipal tickets are dealt with by the Cour municipale, which moved to 1991, boulevard De Périgny, offices 200 and 201, on 450 658-6619.

What Do Airbnb Hosts in Chambly on Reddit and Bigger Pockets Think about Local Regulations?

Those phone numbers get dialled a lot less often in Chambly than they would in a bigger market, and the reason shows up the moment you go looking for host discussion about the place.

I should be straight about the limits here. Reddit blocks automated access and its platform terms don't allow the commercial use these guides would represent, so I haven't read Reddit threads about Chambly, and I couldn't find a BiggerPockets discussion that mentions the city at all. What follows is my read of the documented record rather than a survey of host sentiment, so weigh it accordingly.

• The market is small enough that the city itself said so out loud. Four dwellings was the mayor's own count in October 2023, and the province's tourism dataset still showed two marketed commercial establishments in August 2026. Chambly isn't a place where a host community has formed around a fight with city hall.
• The friction people report in Quebec generally is documentary, not political. The proof-of-principal-residence requirement, the co-ownership authorisation, and the conformity document are the three points where applications stall, which is exactly what the March 2026 amendments tightened further.
• Condo and rental hosts have the hardest version of this. A syndicate or a landlord that consented once in 2023 now gets a fresh consent form to sign every year from September 2026, and there's nothing stopping either from declining.
• Nobody credible argues the Quebec rules go unenforced any more. That question closed in September 2023, when platforms became liable for publishing listings without a valid number. What's left to argue about is whether the municipal layer on top is proportionate, and in Chambly that layer is a $300 certificate and a two-zone map.

Take the last point seriously if you're comparing Chambly against other Canadian markets. The regulation here isn't hostile, it's narrow, and narrow is harder to plan around than hostile because it looks passable until you check your zone. The Canada market data on BNBCalc is the sane place to see how a Montérégie principal-residence listing stacks up against markets where the whole unit can legally go on a platform.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you legally run an Airbnb in Chambly, Quebec in 2026?

Yes, in your own home. Quebec's Loi sur l'hébergement touristique lets you register a principal-residence establishment and rent it to tourists for stays of 31 days or less, and article 23 of that Act stops a municipal zoning bylaw from prohibiting it, so any zone in Chambly works. You also need the city's own occupancy certificate, which costs $300 and requires a fire-service inspection. Renting a unit you don't live in is a different use and is restricted to two zones.

How much does it cost to start a short-term rental in Chambly?

Two fees, and they're paid to two different bodies. Chambly charges $300 for the occupancy certificate covering the short-term rental of a principal residence, under chapter 15 of its permits and certificates bylaw, and the fee is due before your file is examined and isn't refundable. The CITQ charges $54 a year to register a principal-residence establishment, or $156 for a general establishment. On top of that you'll need civil liability insurance of at least $2,000,000 per event.

Which Chambly zones allow a whole-unit short-term rental?

Two of them. A unit rented out while you don't live there is a résidence de tourisme under use 5834 of Chambly's zoning bylaw, which belongs to the commercial lodging class C-5. Reading through all 268 zoning grids in Annexe B of the bylaw, that class is permitted in zone C-020 and zone P-065 only, both in the downtown and recreational-tourism landscape area near the bassin, and both subject to architectural review. Every other zone excludes it.

What taxes apply to a Chambly short-term rental?

Three. The Quebec lodging tax is 3.5% of the nightly price, and Montérégie is one of the 21 tourism regions where it applies. GST at 5% and QST at 9.975% are then calculated on the total including that lodging tax. Where a registered platform takes the guest's full payment, the platform remits the lodging tax; Airbnb has done so in Quebec since October 2017. Stays longer than 31 consecutive days fall outside the lodging tax entirely.

What happens if you rent in Chambly without registering?

Operating an unregistered tourist accommodation establishment carries a fine of $2,500 to $25,000 for an individual and $5,000 to $50,000 otherwise, enforced by Revenu Québec, which ran 2,875 inspections and imposed almost $3.5 million in fines province-wide in the year to 31 March 2025. Separately, Chambly's bylaws add $100 to $1,000 per offence, counted daily while the breach continues. Section 67.7 of the Income Tax Act also denies deductions on a non-compliant rental.

The pattern in Chambly is one you'll meet in a lot of small Quebec municipalities, and it's worth recognising early wherever you're buying. Nobody banned anything, no council voted anything down, and the rules that decide your outcome were written years before short-term rental was on anyone's agenda. A zoning grid drawn for hotels quietly settles whether your listing is legal, and the answer is sitting in an annexe nobody links to from the front page. Look up the zone before you look up the nightly rate.

Last verified: July 2026. Every ordinance, tax rate, state law, and contact detail in this guide links to or comes from its official source.