Patchogue, New York Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a place in Patchogue, New York and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that the village has never passed a law banning short-term rentals, and it has never passed one licensing them either, so nothing in the code stops you by name. That's a bigger deal than it sounds, because Patchogue is an incorporated village sitting inside the Town of Brookhaven, in Suffolk County, and the town code says flatly that "a rental registration shall not be issued to a transient residential occupancy". Town zoning stops at the village line, though, because Town Law § 261 says those regulations "shall apply to and affect only such part of a town as is outside the limits of any incorporated village or city", so Brookhaven's rule has never reached a Patchogue address.

Silence isn't permission, mind you, and that's the catch. Under Chapter 336 of the Village Code, renting out a dwelling unit here without a rental occupancy permit is unlawful, and an offense under the state Penal Law. § 336-2B is then blunt about what holding one buys you, since a permit "does not make legal any action or state of facts that is otherwise illegal, unlawful or unpermitted". The zoning chapter meanwhile keeps every lodging use it recognises, residence hotels, boardinghouses, lodging houses, rooming houses and motels, inside the H Business District, while the A Residence District allows a one-family dwelling plus accessory uses that "shall not include any activity conducted as a business". So the permit is necessary, yet on its own it settles nothing.

So let's walk through what it actually takes to do this properly in 2026: what the permit costs and how long it lasts, what the village inspects before granting it, the tax layers you'll be collecting on top, how hard any of it gets enforced, and who to call at Village Hall when one specific address needs one specific answer. Every figure below comes from Patchogue's own code and pages, from Suffolk County, or from New York State, checked in July 2026, and where a source wouldn't open for me I've said so rather than guessed. Before you spend a dollar on any of it, run the property through BNBCalc first.

What are Short-Term Rental (Airbnb, VRBO) Regulations in Patchogue, New York?

Since the permit settles nothing on its own, the rules that matter sit in two separate chapters, and separating them explains most of the confusion around this village.

The first is Chapter 336, Rental Property, and it's about occupancy rather than tourism. Under § 336-4A it's unlawful for anyone who owns or rents a dwelling unit in Patchogue to "let, lease, sublease, rent or suffer or permit the occupancy and use thereof as a rental occupancy without first having obtained a valid rental occupancy permit", and nothing in that sentence turns on how long the guest stays. A weekend booking and a two-year lease are the same event as far as the chapter is concerned, so the only affirmative defense written into it is that your occupants are immediate family.

There's a second trap in § 336-4A(2), added in 2013. Where the legal owner doesn't live there, the premises are presumed to be rented for a fee, which means the burden of proof lands on you rather than on the inspector.

The second chapter is Chapter 435, Zoning, and this is where a nightly rental actually gets decided. In the A Residence District, § 435-15A permits a one-family dwelling, churches, parks, schools, a private detached garage, and "other customary accessory uses and buildings, provided that such uses are incidental to the principal use, but such uses shall not include any activity conducted as a business". The C Residence District adds owner-occupied two-family dwellings by three-year special permit and garden apartments approved by the Board of Trustees, and that's the whole list.

So every use the code recognises as paid lodging sits somewhere else entirely. Residence hotels, boardinghouses, lodging houses, rooming houses and motels all appear in § 435-26, the H Business District, where § 435-26M defines them as "any building in which there shall be quarters occupied by any persons, exclusive of the family of the owner or occupant".

Read together with § 336-2, the two chapters point the same way. That section applies the permit requirement to every rental dwelling unit "whether or not the use and occupancy thereof shall be permitted under the applicable use regulations for the zoning district," and says that where two rules conflict, "the more restrictive or stringent provision or requirement shall prevail." A permit in your hand does not overrule the use table.

One Patchogue-specific number is worth knowing, because guides written about this village keep importing the wrong one. The only day count anywhere in Chapter 336 is in § 336-5C, the fee provision for commercial hotels and motels, and it sets a "short duration" at not more than 21 consecutive days and a "permanent residence" at more than 21. That's not the 28 nights the Town of Brookhaven uses, and it isn't the 30 days Suffolk County and New York State use for tax either. Anyone quoting 28 days at you about Patchogue is quoting the town. Wrong jurisdiction.

There's one more route in the code, though, and I have to flag it honestly. Chapter 435 carries an Article XVI, Bed-and-Breakfast Establishments, whose single section is § 435-104, "Use regulations; permit requirements". I confirmed the article exists from the chapter's own table of contents, but eCode360 blocked every automated attempt at the section text and the Internet Archive holds no copy of it, so I won't tell you what it requires. Ask the Building Department for that one directly.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in Patchogue

Ask the Building Department early, because the answer you get about a specific address is what the rest of your plan hangs on. Unfortunately for anyone hoping the absence of an ordinance means an open market, Patchogue asks a different question than most Long Island towns do: not "is this a short-term rental" but "is this dwelling permitted to be rented at all, and to how many people."

The permit itself splits into three tracks, and the village's Building & Housing fee page shows how differently it treats them as of July 2026. Owner-occupied and non-owner-occupied dwellings sit on separate schedules, while multi-unit buildings, boarding houses and rooming houses run on a third. Living in the house cuts your fee by roughly 80%, which tells you plenty about how the village sees absentee rental ownership.

Rental permit track	Fee range	Basis
Owner occupied	$25 to $125, plus $25 per room over five	Number of bedrooms
Non-owner occupied	$150 to $350, plus $100 per room over five	Number of bedrooms
Multi-unit, boarding house, rooming house	$100 per unit (4 to 10 units) up to $5,000 (over 200)	Number of units

Guest capacity is fixed by law rather than by your listing, and this is where a lot of Airbnb plans quietly break. Chapter 238 § 238-5 allows one occupant in a bedroom of at least 80 but under 120 square feet, two at 120 to under 180, and three at 180 square feet or more, adding 60 square feet for every occupant above three. Allowing more than that is an offense for the owner, the operator and the manager alike, and converting any room into a bedroom without the Building Inspector's written permission is a separate offense. Do check your actual room dimensions before you advertise a sleeps-eight house.

Renting rooms out one at a time is riskier still. § 336-3 sets out sixteen factual markers, and finding any two of them lets the Building Inspector presume the building is a boardinghouse or rooming house, which is a business-district use. Separate rental arrangements for portions of a building will do it on their own. So does any occupant's inability to reach all parts of the building, internal doors with keyed locks, a second kitchen or a hotplate in a bedroom, two or more mailboxes, meters or satellite dishes, and two or more cars parked overnight registered to people with different surnames. The presumption is rebuttable in court, but be aware that you're rebutting it after the summons, not before.

There's also a filing most owners never hear about until it bites. § 238-46 requires every owner of rental property in the village to file a statement designating an agent for service of process with the Village Clerk, and it makes it unlawful to "list, solicit, advertise or offer, exhibit or show" a rental dwelling unit, or to take a deposit or commission on one, where no agent has been designated. Buildings with eight or more units need a designated on-site manager reachable 24 hours a day. If your Long Island shortlist still has room on it, the Nassau County guide covers the western commuter belt, where the village-by-village picture is very different again.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirement in Patchogue

Assuming your dwelling clears the use table and the occupancy math, there's still the permit itself to get through, and it's the one piece of this you can actually schedule, because § 336-6 lays out the clock in three steps. The Senior Building Inspector reviews the application for completeness and either returns it or confirms it's complete within two weeks. You then have 30 days from that notice to pick your route: a Village Code Enforcement Officer inspects the unit, or you supply evidence certified by a licensed engineer that the structure meets every applicable housing, sanitary, building, electrical and fire code. Either way the inspection and its written report must be filed within 120 days of the completeness notice.

Pass, and the permit you get back names the owner, the maximum number of occupants and the number of conventional bedrooms in the structure, which is the document a code officer will hold your listing against later. Since 10 July 2023, when L.L. No. 8-2023 rewrote § 336-7, permits run two years from the date the Building and Housing Department received the completed application, not one. The fee is described in § 336-5A as a non-refundable biannual application fee, so it doesn't come back if you're denied, and that's the reason to settle the zoning question before you file rather than after. The order matters.

Two smaller obligations sit alongside the permit. § 336-10 requires a separate rental registration form, signed by the owner and filed with the Code Enforcement Officer, before any tenant takes up residence; renting to someone without it is its own offense. And § 336-11 puts the same duty on the industry: a real estate broker or agent may not list, advertise, show or offer a dwelling for which no current rental occupancy permit is in force, and it is the broker's own duty to verify the permit exists before acting for you. Property managers who advertise Patchogue inventory carry that exposure directly.

Losing the permit is a slower process than losing your listing, but the trigger is low. Under § 336-9, the Senior Building Inspector may recommend revocation where a violation of this article, another chapter of the Village Code, the Multiple Residence Law or the state Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code has been allowed to remain for 14 days or more after written notice. The Board of Trustees then gives 10 days' written notice by certified mail and holds a public hearing within 60 days before deciding.

The money side of non-compliance is where casual operating stops being cheap. Under § 336-12, violating any provision of the rental chapter is punishable by a fine not exceeding $5,000 or up to 15 days' imprisonment, or both, for a first conviction and for each additional offense charged. Read the next subsection carefully, because each month the violation continues is a separate and distinct offense, so an unpermitted rental that runs a summer compounds rather than settling at one ticket. That's the number to plan around. The Village Attorney is separately authorised to bring an action in the New York Supreme Court for Suffolk County for injunctive relief, with the costs charged against the property and collected as additional tax.

Required Documents for Patchogue Short-Term Rentals

Since that fee doesn't come back and the fine ceiling is $5,000, it's worth getting the file right the first time. The application itself is one page, but § 336-4B specifies what has to travel with it, and the survey requirement is the item that takes real time to produce.

• The owner's name, residence address, mailing address and telephone number, plus the property manager's name and phone on the village's own form.
• The street address and Suffolk County Tax Map designation, section, block and lot.
• A description of the structure, including how many rental dwelling units it holds, and for each unit the number of rooms and the dimensions of every one of them.
• The number of persons intended to reside in each unit, which is what the village checks against the § 238-5 square-footage table.
• A property survey drawn to a scale no greater than 40 feet to one inch, plus a site plan showing buildings, structures, walks, drives and the number, location and access of existing and proposed on-site parking.
• A copy of the certificate of occupancy and/or certificate of zoning compliance, and any certificate of nonconforming use recorded for the premises.

The application is executed by the owner and sworn before a Notary Public of Suffolk County, so a signature from an LLC manager or a remote agent won't clear it. Don't forget the separate agent designation with the Village Clerk under § 238-46 either; the code treats advertising without it as its own violation, and Airbnb counts as advertising.

Two documents come from outside Village Hall. Where you don't already hold a certificate of occupancy or zoning compliance, the Building Department fee schedule updated 14 April 2025 charges $100 for a residential certificate and $200 for a commercial one, with a title search for an existing certificate at $50 and a building or fire violation search at $30 each. And before your first guest checks in you'll need a Certificate of Authority from Suffolk County, which is a tax document rather than a housing one.

Patchogue Short-Term Rental Taxes

That Certificate of Authority is the first thread of the tax side, and it pulls two levels of government in behind it. Neither is the village: I found no Patchogue bed tax on any reachable village page, so what a short stay in this village carries is a county occupancy tax and state and local sales tax.

Charge	Rate	Applies to	Collected by
Hotel/motel occupancy tax	5.5% of the per-diem rental rate	Lodging of less than 30 days	Suffolk County Comptroller
New York State sales tax	4%	Short-term rental occupancy over $2.00 per unit per day	NYS Dept of Taxation and Finance
Suffolk County local sales tax	4.375%	Same	NYS Dept of Taxation and Finance
MCTD surcharge	0.375%	Same	NYS Dept of Taxation and Finance

The combined sales tax rate in Suffolk County is 8.75%, and that number moved recently enough that older guides still carry the old one. In ST-25-1, dated 7 February 2025, the Department of Taxation and Finance confirmed the county's local rate rising from 4¼% to 4⅜% effective 1 March 2025, which took the combined rate from 8⅝% to 8¾%.

Sales tax reached short-term rental occupancy on that same date, so under the state's short-term rental sales tax guidance booking services now register as sales tax vendors and collect it for you. Since an operator whose sales all run through a booking service is relieved of collecting, though, you'll want Form ST-155 or a publicly available agreement saying the platform will collect. Keep it somewhere you can find it.

The county piece, meanwhile, is the one hosts miss, since it doesn't care that your property is a house, and Suffolk County's comptroller has put that in writing. The office's notice to real estate professionals says the tax "applies to all lodging facilities including B&B's, residences, guest houses and tourist homes; not just traditional hotels and motels", and it took effect on 1 June 2023 under NYS Tax Law § 1202-o and Chapter 523 Article II of the county code.

So you register with the county within 10 days of your first lodging rental, display the Certificate of Authority you get back, and file quarterly returns due the 20th of March, June, September and December. Late returns draw a 10% penalty plus 1% per month, while failing to register at all costs $50 per day, per facility. That last one runs whether or not you ever take a booking.

The two thresholds don't line up, so keep the difference in mind when a guest extends. A guest becomes a permanent resident for county occupancy tax at 30 consecutive days, and the county says the tax collected during those first 30 days becomes refundable to them once they cross it, taken as a credit on your next quarterly return. For state sales tax the line sits at 90 consecutive days instead.

Airbnb's own New York occupancy tax page says it collects the Suffolk 5.5% on reservations up to 29 nights, and state sales tax on reservations of 89 nights or fewer outside New York City, which lines up with both thresholds. Even so, what a platform says about its own behaviour isn't a release from your obligation.

New York Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

Those thresholds are set in Albany rather than in Patchogue, and a fair amount of what governs your listing works the same way. New York doesn't broadly preempt local short-term rental regulation; the Department of State tells local governments it's up to each municipality to define, prohibit or regulate short-term rentals as it chooses, which is exactly why the answer changes at the Patchogue village line.

What the state does impose sits in Real Property Law § 447-b, enacted through Chapter 672 of the Laws of 2024 and restructured by Chapter 99 of 2025. A short-term rental unit has to be registered and not used for single-room occupancy, and it has to carry an evacuation diagram, posted emergency phone numbers and a working fire extinguisher. It also needs insurance of at least $300,000 for third-party property damage or bodily injury claims, and you keep guest-stay records for two years after the end of the calendar year. Booking services can't collect a fee without verifying a current, valid county registration.

The county registration part is where I have to be straight with you about what I couldn't confirm. The state moved registration to a county-run model with a local opt-out, and the implementation memo from the New York State Association of Counties sets the last date for a county to enact an opt-out local law at 25 June 2026, which has now passed. That memo also notes that cities, towns and villages are barred from creating any new registry once their county establishes one, and that a county opting in gains authority to update its occupancy tax law while one opting out doesn't. On penalties, a host faces up to $200 on a third violation, with warnings required first, while a booking service faces $500 per day per violation, enforceable by the Attorney General.

Whether Suffolk County opted in or out, though, I could not establish. No county page, legislature document or news report confirming either outcome would open for me, and I'm not going to assert one. Ask the comptroller's office.

One statute that governs New York City has no bearing here, and it's worth clearing up because it dominates search results. The Multiple Dwelling Law behind Local Law 18 reaches the largest cities; Multiple Residence Law § 3 applies "to all cities of less than three hundred twenty-five thousand population and to all towns and villages," which is why Patchogue's own § 336-9 cross-references the Multiple Residence Law instead. For how differently this plays out elsewhere in the state, our New York statewide guide maps the overall picture and the Erie County guide covers the Buffalo market upstate.

Does Patchogue Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

Since the state leaves enforcement to whoever wrote the rule, the honest answer here comes in two halves, and the county half is much easier to evidence than the village half.

Start with the village, where the tools are broad even though the published record is thin. § 238-45 gives the Building Inspector and any designated officer a right of entry, and provides that denying access is prima facie evidence in a later proceeding that a violation exists. That presumption is switched off for an owner-occupied home no part of which is held for rent, and switched back on the moment part of it is. The same section then lets the Building Inspector designate a dwelling unfit for human habitation and order it vacated, with the Suffolk County Supreme Court and the Sheriff behind the order if an occupant won't go.

Money follows separately. Over-occupancy under § 238-5 draws up to $2,000 for a first and a second offense within five years, and a third within five years is an unclassified misdemeanour carrying a fine of not less than $2,000 or up to six months, with each day counting separately.

What I couldn't find, though, is any published Patchogue enforcement statistic: no rental-permit count, no violation tally, no code-enforcement report on any village page I could open. The village's own Building & Housing FAQ runs to twenty questions about zoning districts, variances and permits and doesn't mention rentals once. So treat the risk here as ordinary complaint-driven code enforcement rather than the transaction-blocking machinery New York City runs, and remember that a neighbour dialling the Building Department is the realistic trigger.

The county half is documented, and it's pointed. In the comptroller's notice to real estate professionals, the office states that it "has determined that there is substantial non-compliance with this law which has caused me to commence an initiative to vigorously pursue scofflaws," and reminds agents that wilfully failing to collect or remit is a misdemeanour on top of the $50-a-day registration fine. The notice was written for brokers precisely so they would pass it to their clients, which tells you where the county expects leakage to be.

Watch out for the compounding, because that's what actually hurts. A village fine capped at $5,000 sounds survivable until § 336-12B turns every month into a fresh offense and the county's $50 a day runs in parallel underneath it. Both clocks run at once.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in Patchogue

Given how those two clocks compound, the order below matters more than it looks, since the early steps tell you whether the later ones are worth paying for.

1. Find your zoning district before anything else. A Residence, C Residence and the business districts lead to completely different answers, and the Planning and Zoning Coordinator at 631-475-4300 ext. 128 is who confirms it for your section, block and lot.
2. Ask the Building Department, in writing, how it treats nightly stays at your address. The code has no short-term rental definition, so this is a question about use, not about a licence category. Email [email protected] with the address and keep the answer.
3. Measure your bedrooms. One occupant at 80 to under 120 square feet, two at 120 to under 180, three at 180 or more. That number, not your listing, is what the permit will state.
4. Confirm your certificate of occupancy or zoning compliance. Budget $100 for a residential certificate, or $50 for a title search if one already exists.
5. Get the survey and site plan drawn, at a scale no greater than 40 feet to one inch, showing parking. This is the long-lead item.
6. File the rental occupancy permit application, notarised, with the fee for your track, and choose your inspection route within 30 days of the completeness notice.
7. File the agent designation with the Village Clerk under § 238-46, and the § 336-10 rental registration form with the Code Enforcement Officer, before anyone takes up residence.
8. Register with the Suffolk County Comptroller within 10 days of your first paid night, display the Certificate of Authority, and diarise the quarterly returns for 20 March, June, September and December.
9. Sort the state layer. Get Form ST-155 or the equivalent public agreement from your platform, and line up the § 447-b items: the evacuation diagram, posted emergency numbers, a working fire extinguisher, $300,000 of liability cover and a two-year guest log.
10. Diarise the two-year permit expiry, and re-check the code before renewing, since Patchogue's silence on short-term rentals is a policy choice it could reverse at any trustees' meeting.

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

Whichever of those steps you get stuck on, three offices handle almost all of it between them, and knowing which one owns your question saves a genuinely irritating amount of time.

The permit, the inspection and the use question

The Village of Patchogue Building & Housing Department issues rental occupancy permits, runs the inspections and answers zoning questions.

• Address: 14 Baker Street, Patchogue, NY 11772 (mail to P.O. Box 719, Patchogue, NY 11772-0719)
• Phone: 631-475-4300 · Fax: 631-475-4314
• Email: [email protected]
• Hours: Monday through Friday, 9 am to 4:30 pm
• People: Peter Sarich, Senior Building Inspector (ext. 137); Paul Rorbah, Building Inspector (ext. 136); Lauren Monte, Housing Coordinator (ext. 129); Carol Giglio, Planning and Zoning Coordinator (ext. 128)

One live warning from the department's own page: it will never request payment through an email link or a wire transfer, and scammers have been sending applicants fake invoices. Pay at Village Hall.

The agent designation

The Village Clerk's office takes the § 238-46 statement of designation, and the Clerk can be named as your agent for service of process if you'd rather not appoint a local one yourself. Reach Lori Devlin, the Village Clerk, on 631-475-4300 at extension 112, or Valerie Braile, the Deputy Village Clerk, at extension 114, both of them at 14 Baker Street.

Occupancy tax

The Suffolk County Comptroller's Office administers the 5.5% hotel and motel occupancy tax, issues the Certificate of Authority and takes the quarterly returns.

• Tax Collections Center: 330 Center Drive, Riverhead, NY 11901-3311 · (631) 852-1770 · fax (631) 852-1425
• Main office: H. Lee Dennison Building, 100 Veterans Memorial Highway, P.O. Box 6100, Hauppauge, NY 11788-0099 · (631) 853-5040
• Email: [email protected]
• Portal: registration and remittance run through suffolkcountyny.taxandrevenue.opengov.com

State sales tax, vendor registration and Form ST-155 belong to the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance rather than to either local office, and its Sales Tax Information Center takes calls on 518-485-2889 during business hours.

What Airbnb Hosts in Patchogue Report About Local Regulations

Those three phone numbers are where most Patchogue host questions end up, and there's a reason for that: the public conversation about this village is unusually quiet compared with the rest of Suffolk County. What follows is my read of the record I could actually open, not a survey, so do weigh it accordingly. Reddit blocks automated access, and the BiggerPockets Long Island forum rendered no thread titles for me, so nothing below is attributed to either.

• The biggest recurring error is jurisdictional. Owners search "Brookhaven short-term rental," find the town's transient ban and its 28-night line, and conclude their Patchogue house is illegal. Town Law § 261 says otherwise, and the village code contains no such rule. The reverse mistake is just as common and more expensive: assuming that because the town rule doesn't apply, nothing does.
• The permit gets treated as a formality, and it isn't. A $200 fee on a three-bedroom non-owner-occupied house reads like a filing charge next to a $5,000 fine ceiling that renews monthly, and the two-year term means the renewal falls outside most owners' annual calendar.
• The county tax is the most commonly skipped obligation, which is not a guess: the comptroller's office says so itself, in writing, and has publicly committed to chasing it.
• Don't read the village's silence as a settled decision. Its own disposition list shows the code amended on a dozen separate subjects between 2022 and 2024, from solid waste to parking to sewage, without ever naming short-term rentals. What you'd be relying on is the absence of a rule, not a vote to allow one.

Take that last point seriously if you're modelling a purchase, and the New York market data is where I'd start putting revenue and occupancy numbers against it. A market whose rules exist only by implication is easy to enter and hard to price, though, because the thing that moves your economics isn't a fine you can budget for. It's a trustees' vote you didn't attend.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you legally run an Airbnb in Patchogue, New York in 2026?

There's no village law banning short-term rentals in Patchogue and none licensing them either. What the code does require is a rental occupancy permit for any paid occupancy of a dwelling unit, at any length of stay, under Chapter 336 of the Village Code. Whether a nightly rental is a permitted use then turns on your zoning district, since the code confines residence hotels, boardinghouses, rooming houses and motels to the H Business District. Confirm your specific address with the Building Department before listing.

How much does a Patchogue rental permit cost and how long does it last?

Fees run by bedroom count and by whether you live there. Owner-occupied dwellings pay $25 for one or two bedrooms up to $125 for more than five, plus $25 per extra room. Non-owner-occupied dwellings pay $150 to $350, plus $100 per room over five. Multi-unit buildings, boarding houses and rooming houses run from $100 per unit to $5,000. The fee is non-refundable, and since a July 2023 amendment the permit is valid for two years.

What taxes do you pay on a short-term rental in Patchogue?

Two layers, neither of them the village. Suffolk County charges 5.5% of the per-diem rental rate on lodging of less than 30 days, and you register with the county comptroller within 10 days of your first paid night and file quarterly. New York State and local sales tax adds 8.75% in Suffolk County, made up of 4% state, 4.375% county and a 0.375% MCTD surcharge. Booking services generally collect the sales tax if you hold Form ST-155.

What happens if you rent in Patchogue without a permit?

Renting without a rental occupancy permit is an offense under the state Penal Law and carries a fine of up to $5,000 or up to 15 days' imprisonment, or both. Each month the violation continues counts as a separate offense, so the exposure compounds rather than capping. The Village Attorney can also sue in the Suffolk County Supreme Court, with costs charged against the property and collected as an additional tax.

Does the Town of Brookhaven short-term rental ban apply in Patchogue?

No. Patchogue is an incorporated village with its own zoning chapter and its own rental chapter, and New York Town Law § 261 provides that town zoning applies only to the part of a town outside the limits of any incorporated village or city. The town's 28-night transient definition and its refusal to register those rentals govern the unincorporated parts of Brookhaven, not addresses inside the Patchogue village line.

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