Gold Coast Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a place on the Gold Coast and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that you're allowed to, and the City of Gold Coast treats holiday letting as a normal, approvable business rather than something to be stamped out. From what I can tell going through the Queensland planning and revenue pages in 2026, there's still no statewide short-stay register up here and no nightly cap to work around, so there's no portal to join and no permit number to paste into your listing.

The catch sits in the City Plan, and it's a big one. Short-term accommodation is a Tourist and entertainment activity on the Gold Coast, not a Residential activity, which means letting your whole house or unit to holidaymakers is a different land use from living in it. The City's own short-term accommodation fact sheet says it in one line: "Use of a dwelling for Short-term accommodation without a necessary development approval is a development offence." That approval is code assessable in seven named locations and impact assessable everywhere else in the city. Most owners, in other words, are looking at a publicly notified application their neighbours get to object to.

So let's walk through what it actually takes to do this properly in Gold Coast, in South East Queensland: which zones say yes without a public fight, what the approval costs in 2026, the rental accommodation licence sitting underneath it, the rates category that roughly triples your bill, and who to call when you get stuck. Everything below comes from the City of Gold Coast's own local laws, budget papers and fact sheets, or from Queensland and Commonwealth sources, checked in July 2026. Before you spend a dollar on any of it, run the property through BNBCalc first, because an approval you can't earn back isn't worth chasing.

What are Short-Term Rental (Airbnb, VRBO) Regulations in Gold Coast, Australia?

That development approval is the whole ball game, so it's worth understanding where the requirement comes from before you look at forms and fees. Two layers stack here, and they do genuinely different jobs.

The bottom layer is Queensland planning law. The City's fact sheet quotes the Planning Regulation 2017 definition in full: using premises to provide accommodation of less than 3 consecutive months to tourists or travellers, plus any manager's residence, office or recreation facilities that are ancillary to it. Notice what's missing from that definition. There's no mention of how many nights a year you let, how many guests you take, or which platform takes the booking. A weekend stay and an eleven-week stay both land inside it.

The top layer is the Gold Coast City Plan, which decides where that use is allowed and how hard the application will be. Short-term accommodation is code assessable, meaning an approval is needed but no public notification happens, in these locations only:

• Centre zone
• High density residential zone
• Innovation zone
• Major tourism zone, covering the northern, southern and eastern tourism precincts of The Spit
• Medium density residential zone, but only where the site has direct access to the Gold Coast Highway
• Mixed use zone, other than the Fringe business precinct
• Neighbourhood centre zone, but only where the site has direct access to Musgrave Street or Marine Parade in Coolangatta

Everywhere else in the city, short-term accommodation is impact assessable. That's a materially different animal: the application has to be publicly notified, neighbours can lodge submissions the City must consider, and any submitter gets appeal rights afterwards. Overlays can also push a code assessable site up to impact assessable, so the zone alone doesn't settle it. There's one narrow exception worth knowing if you're rural: in the Rural zone, outside the Rural landscape and environment precinct, a farm stay is accepted subject to requirements.

Renting a room while you're living in the house is treated as something else again. That's a Home-based business, bed and breakfast, and it only qualifies where the letting stays subordinate to your residential use of the place. Even then a development approval is usually required, code or impact depending on the zone, with the Limited development (constrained land) zone as the exception. Rent out the whole dwelling, or rent out part of it in a way that isn't subordinate to your own occupation, and you're back in short-term accommodation territory.

Then there's the use nobody can get approved at all. A party house is defined as a dwelling let for less than 10 days with the owner not occupying it during that period, where guests hold more than two parties in a consecutive 12-month period. That's a prohibited use across the whole city apart from the mapped Party house area in part of Surfers Paradise. Prohibited means what it sounds like: the City can't issue an approval to fix it, no matter what you're willing to pay.

One last thing before you assume you're stuck. Premises that were lawfully operating as short-term accommodation before City Plan commenced on 2 February 2016 may carry existing use rights and can continue without a fresh approval. Keep in mind that those rights are fragile. They fall away if the use stops or changes in scale and intensity, and if a compliance officer knocks, the burden of proving them sits with you.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in Gold Coast

Existing use rights aside, then, almost every new Gold Coast host starts in the same place: finding out which of those two assessment tracks their address sits on. Do check it on the City Plan interactive mapping tool before anything else, because the answer changes the cost, the timeline and the odds.

The two tracks price out very differently. The City's Register of Fees and Charges 2026-27 sets the material change of use fee for short-term accommodation with 10 or fewer units, rooms or beds at $8,488.00 code assessable and $11,312.00 impact assessable, as of July 2026. Above 10 units the code fee starts at $17,006.00 plus $287.00 per unit over ten.

Those are council fees only, mind you. They don't cover the town planner, the plans, or the traffic and acoustic material that a contested application tends to attract.

An apartment sitting in the High density residential zone is therefore a fundamentally different proposition from a house in a quiet low density street, even where the two are a few kilometres apart. The first is a code assessable application against published benchmarks. The second is a public notification exercise among people who did not buy next door to a holiday let, and their submissions become part of the assessment.

If you're buying into a unit block, there's a second question layered on top, and Queensland answers it more generously than most people expect. Under section 180(3) of the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997, "If a lot may lawfully be used for residential purposes, the by-laws can not restrict the type of residential use", and subsection (4) stops a by-law preventing you from leasing the lot at all. So a Gold Coast body corporate can't simply vote your Airbnb out of existence.

That said, notice the words "may lawfully be used" doing quiet work in there, since the section protects a lawful use and not an unapproved one. A committee can still enforce noise, parking, common property and behaviour by-laws, which is where most short-let disputes in towers actually happen.

Assuming the planning side stacks up, model the running costs before you commit. The rates category alone moves by thousands of dollars a year the moment your property is used for short stays, and I'll come to the numbers shortly.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirement in Gold Coast

Planning approval settles whether you may use the land that way. Licensing is a separate question about how you run the accommodation, and the two are enforced by different parts of the council.

The licence sits in Local Law No. 16 (Licensing) 2008, which says a person must not operate a regulated activity on premises without a licence, with a maximum penalty of 50 penalty units. Its dictionary defines rental accommodation broadly as "accommodation on premises provided for payment", and the worked example includes "accommodation provided mainly to tourists, travellers and holiday-makers". Your beachfront unit is squarely inside that.

Subordinate Local Law No. 16.1 (Rental Accommodation) 2008 then carves out the cases that don't need a licence, and one of them matters a lot to hosted stays. No licence is required for home-stay accommodation at a residential dwelling, other than a bed and breakfast, that "is occupied and continues to be occupied as the principal place of residence of at least one person" and "provides accommodation for up to four guests". Live there, take four guests or fewer, and the licensing layer drops away. The planning layer does not, which is the trap.

For everyone else, the administration is gentler than the wording suggests. The City's own rental accommodation page states that "For most permanent or tourist rental accommodation, payment of rates is deemed a licence renewal (if the rating category is correct)". Read that bracket carefully, because it's conditional. The renewal only works while your rating category matches what you're doing with the property, which is exactly the thing casual hosts get wrong. Backpacker hostels are handled through a separate application process, and licences under Local Law No. 16 run from the date of issue to the 31st of August following, so the whole city renews on the same annual clock.

Licence conditions can also be attached individually. Section 9 lets the council require a security or bond, records kept in a specified place, a periodic inspection or management program, a cap on the number of people involved in the activity, and "specified insurance indemnifying a person who may suffer personal injury loss or damage". You'll see a flat $10 million public liability figure quoted around the web for Gold Coast rentals. I couldn't find that number anywhere in Local Law No. 16 or Subordinate Local Law No. 16.1, so treat insurance as a condition the council may impose rather than a fixed statutory minimum, and get the actual requirement in writing.

And the point the City makes itself, which is worth repeating because it catches people who did half the paperwork: "where a development approval is required (and not already obtained), you cannot lawfully use a dwelling for short-term accommodation even if you have a licence."

Required Documents for Gold Coast Short-Term Rentals

Since the licence and the approval are separate gates, the paperwork comes in two piles, and it's worth getting the first pile right before you spend money on the second.

For a rental accommodation licence, section 6 of Subordinate Local Law No. 16.1 lists what the council can require with an application:

• The street address, real property description and owner details for the premises
• Name, street address, phone and email for the person operating the accommodation
• Name, street address, phone and email for the person managing it, which can be a different person
• The trading name, registered business name and Australian Company Number of the business
• The owner's written consent, where the applicant isn't the owner
• Details of how waste and waste water will be collected and disposed of
• Fire evacuation procedures, for anything other than a budget accommodation building
• A scaled plan and specifications of the operation

Two safety items sit outside the local law entirely and catch owners out constantly. Queensland requires interconnected photoelectric smoke alarms complying with AS 3786-2014 in all dwellings by 1 January 2027, and the obligation already bites the moment a dwelling is sold or leased, so a short-let property should have them now.

Pools are the other one. The QBCC's rules on leasing a property with a pool are blunt: with a non-shared pool "you must not enter into an accommodation agreement unless a pool safety certificate is in effect". Non-shared certificates last two years and shared ones a single year. Where a shared pool has no current certificate, the lessor lodges a Form 36 and the pool owner, usually the body corporate, then has 90 days to get one.

The development application pile is the expensive one, and it's a professional job rather than a form-filling exercise. Expect a town planner's report addressing the applicable assessment benchmarks, site and floor plans, and for an impact assessable application, the public notification material and a response to whatever submissions come back. Don't forget that on an impact assessable application the neighbours who object also get appeal rights, so the submissions aren't the end of it.

Gold Coast Short-Term Rental Taxes

Assuming you get through all of that and are able to start hosting, there's still tax to deal with, though it arrives in a shape Americans and Europeans reading this won't recognise. Going through the City's budget papers and the Queensland Revenue Office's own pages, I found no bed tax, no tourist levy and no state short-stay levy to collect from guests in 2026. The Gold Coast charges you a different way, through the rates.

The mechanism is differential general rating, and the numbers in the Revenue Statement 2026-27 are the single most expensive fact in this guide. A detached house moves category depending on who sleeps in it:

Rating category	What it covers	Rate in the dollar	Minimum general rate
1A	House, owner-occupied, not rented	0.230644 cents	$1,358.90
2A	House rented to permanent residents, or not a principal place of residence	0.345174 cents	$2,033.80
3A	House rented to itinerants, meaning short-stay guests	0.813533 cents	$4,844.40

So the same house in category 3A carries a minimum general rate $3,485.50 higher than it would owner-occupied, before the rate in the dollar is even applied. Units are hit harder. A unit of 70m² or less on levels 5 to 10 pays 0.400033 cents with a $1,495.00 minimum while the owner lives in it, and 1.673922 cents with a $5,040.60 minimum once it's let to itinerants, which is more than four times the rate in the dollar.

"Itinerant" has a precise meaning here, and it's not the same as the planning definition. The Rating Category Statement 2026-2027 defines an itinerant as someone who stays "on a short-term basis (fewer than 42 consecutive days at any one time)". Six weeks, not three months. A property can therefore sit in the short-stay rates category while still being a mid-term let for planning purposes, so make sure you check both definitions against your actual booking pattern rather than assuming one answer covers you.

Three more layers sit above the council. Queensland land tax applies to land you own that isn't your home, assessed on what you hold at midnight on 30 June. For an individual the rates start at nil below $600,000 of taxable value, then $500 plus 1 cent for each dollar above $600,000, rising to $4,500 plus 1.65 cents once you pass $1 million. If you're letting a room inside your own home, the home exemption survives a letting arrangement covering no more than 50% of the residential floor area at no more than market rent, and beyond that a partial exemption may be considered.

Income tax catches everything. The ATO's guidance on renting out all or part of your home says all of the income goes in your return, only expenses relating to the rented part are deductible, and "It is rare for someone to be carrying on a business because they are renting out a property". GST, on the other hand, is the pleasant surprise: the ATO confirms that "Rent and bonds aren't subject to GST" and that residential rent is input taxed, which is why your Airbnb payout has no GST line on it. That treatment only flips if you're running commercial residential premises such as a hotel.

The sting arrives when you sell. Renting out your main residence costs you part of the CGT exemption, apportioned by floor area and days rented, and the ATO's own worked example shows how quickly it adds up: on a $120,000 gain, with 35% of the floor area rented for 1,857 of 2,192 days of ownership, $35,582 becomes taxable before the 50% discount. Nobody plans for that one in year one.

Australia Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

Since so much of that tax sits with Canberra and Brisbane rather than the council, it's worth stepping back to see which parts of the Gold Coast regime are really national or state rules wearing local clothes.

The offence provisions are pure state law, and they're severe. Under the Planning Act 2016, carrying out assessable development without all necessary permits carries a maximum penalty of 4,500 penalty units, and carrying out prohibited development, which is what an unapproved party house is, carries the same. Contravening a development approval you do hold carries 4,500 units as well.

A Queensland penalty unit rose to $172.70 on 1 July 2026 under the Penalties and Sentences (Penalty Unit Value) Amendment Regulation 2026, notified on 22 May 2026, so that maximum works out at $777,150. Be aware that the same indexed value flows through to the council's local law penalties, which is how 50 penalty units under Local Law No. 16 becomes $8,635.

Body corporate law is state law too, and section 180(3) of the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 is why a Gold Coast tower can't vote holiday letting out of the building. By-laws can't restrict the type of residential use of a lot that may lawfully be used residentially, and they can't stop you leasing it at all.

Safety obligations are state law as well. The interconnected photoelectric smoke alarm rules and the 1 January 2027 deadline are Queensland-wide, and so is the pool safety certificate regime administered by the QBCC. Neither depends on your council or your zone.

Federal rules complete the picture, and the important one is visibility. Under the Sharing Economy Reporting Regime, established by Subdivision 396-B of Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953, short-term accommodation platforms have reported supplier income directly to the ATO since 1 July 2023, twice a year, by 31 January and 31 July. Whatever Airbnb pays you, the ATO already has the number before you lodge.

Does Gold Coast Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

Those penalties look terrifying on paper, so the fair question is how often any of it actually lands on an ordinary host. Honestly, the enforcement here is less dramatic and more mechanical than the numbers suggest, and it runs on two separate tracks.

The first track is rates, and it's automatic. The Rating Category Statement carries a note under the definition of itinerant saying that "The presence of listings or advertising/marketing, for example on publicly available websites and/or with real estate agents, will constitute evidence of a property being used to provide accommodation to itinerants for short-term occupation." Your public Airbnb listing is the evidence. No inspector has to visit, and no neighbour has to complain, so the rates category is the part of this regime you should assume the City will find.

The council also tells you what your extra rates are buying. The Revenue Statement says the differential funds "its inspection program for rental accommodation within the city", a program that "includes risk-based and complaint-based inspections, to monitor compliance with minimum public health and safety standards" under Subordinate Local Law No. 16.1. Short-stay properties are paying for the inspectors who check short-stay properties.

The second track is planning compliance, and that one is complaint-driven. The City's development compliance team investigates allegations about unlawful development and unauthorised use of premises, escalating through a request letter, then a show cause notice, then an enforcement notice. It also makes a point that matters if you're buying: "Development approvals are attached to the land and are the responsibility of all subsequent owners." An unapproved use you inherit becomes your problem at settlement, not the vendor's.

Noise is where the two tracks meet. Local Law No. 19 (Control of Party House Noise) 2013 makes the owner of a residential property made available for short term rental accommodation liable if excessive noise is regularly emitted from it, with a maximum penalty of 200 penalty units, which is $34,540 at the current value. A noise abatement direction from a police officer is evidence of the excessive noise, so the trail from a Saturday night complaint to a council file is short. Cross the party house threshold, and you've moved from an unapproved use to a prohibited one that can't be legalised at all.

What I can't tell you is how many of these cases the City actually runs. I looked for published counts of short-term accommodation investigations, show cause notices or prosecutions on the Gold Coast and couldn't find any, so I'm not going to invent a number. What the documents do show is a council that has priced short-stay letting into its rate schedule, funded an inspection program out of that money, and written the "your listing is the evidence" rule into its own rating statement. That's not a city ignoring the issue.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in Gold Coast

Since the City is going to find the listing either way, you may as well run the sequence in order, and the order still matters more than it looks. The early steps are cheap, and they tell you whether the expensive later ones are worth starting at all.

1. Check the assessment level for your exact address on the City Plan interactive mapping tool. Code assessable in one of the seven named locations is a manageable application. Impact assessable anywhere else means public notification, submissions and appeal rights, and overlays can push a code assessable site up to impact.
2. Work out which use you're actually proposing. Whole dwelling to tourists is short-term accommodation. A room let while you live there and stays subordinate to your own occupation is a home-based business, bed and breakfast. Letting for under 10 days while you're away, with more than two guest parties a year, is a party house and is prohibited outside the mapped Surfers Paradise area.
3. Check for existing use rights if the property was used for short-term accommodation before 2 February 2016, and get planning or legal advice on whether they survived. Remember the burden of proof lands on you when a compliance matter is raised.
4. Read the by-laws if it's a unit. A body corporate can't ban the type of residential use, though it can enforce noise, parking and common property rules that shape how you operate.
5. Budget the development application properly. $8,488.00 code assessable or $11,312.00 impact assessable for 10 or fewer units in 2026-27, plus your town planner and any technical reports, and a considerably longer timeline for impact assessment.
6. Sort the rental accommodation licence. Hosted stays in your principal place of residence with up to four guests are exempt. Everything else needs a licence, and rates payment is deemed a renewal only while your rating category is correct.
7. Get your rating category corrected before the City does it for you, and if you disagree with the category, lodge a notice of objection before the rate notice due date. You still have to pay the notice while the objection is on foot.
8. Fix the safety items. Interconnected photoelectric smoke alarms to AS 3786-2014, a pool safety certificate in effect before any accommodation agreement, and clear means of escape from every room.
9. Set up tax before the first booking. No GST on residential rent, all income declared, land tax if the property isn't your home, and a note in your file about the CGT you'll be apportioning years from now.

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

Whichever of those steps stalls, four organisations handle almost all of it between them, and knowing who owns your question saves an afternoon.

Planning, zoning and development approvals

The City of Gold Coast Planning and Enquiries Centre is the first call about assessment levels, whether your address is code or impact assessable, and existing use rights.

• Phone: 07 5582 8708, or the main line on 1300 465 326
• Fact sheet: Short-term accommodation in dwellings, which is the clearest official statement of the rules and names the zones directly

Licences, rates, and everything else council

The City of Gold Coast handles rental accommodation licences, rating categories, objections, and development compliance complaints.

• Phone: 1300 GOLDCOAST (1300 465 326) or 07 5629 5629, 8.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday excluding Gold Coast public holidays, and 24 hours a day for urgent or hazardous situations
• Email: [email protected]
• Post: City of Gold Coast, PO Box 5042, GOLD COAST MC 9726
• Licences and permits: [email protected], listed on the Australian Government's ABLIS entry for the Gold Coast accommodation approval
• In person: customer service centres at Southport (47 Nerang Street), Nerang Library (corner White and Price Streets), Broadbeach Library (61 Sunshine Boulevard, Mermaid Waters), Palm Beach (26 Eleventh Avenue), Helensvale, Elanora and Upper Coomera

Land tax

Queensland Revenue Office assesses land tax on everything that isn't your home, based on what you own at midnight on 30 June.

• Phone: 1300 300 734 within Australia, or +61 7 3013 4510 from overseas, 8.30am to 5.00pm AEST Monday to Friday
• Post: Queensland Revenue Office, Land tax, GPO Box 2476, Brisbane QLD 4001

Pool safety

The Queensland Building and Construction Commission administers pool safety certificates, the pool register and Form 36.

• Phone: 139 333, 8.30am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday, or +61 7 3842 8700 internationally
• Post: GPO Box 5099, Brisbane QLD 4001, with a regional service centre on the Gold Coast

For income tax, GST and capital gains questions, the ATO's own pages on renting out all or part of your home are the place to start rather than the council, since the City has no role in your tax return.

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

Knowing who to call is one thing; knowing what other owners have run into is another. What follows is my editorial read of how Gold Coast hosting gets discussed publicly rather than any kind of survey, so do weigh it accordingly. Reddit blocks automated access and its terms don't permit the commercial use this would need, so I haven't quoted any thread here, and every hard number below traces back to a council or state document.

• The most common belief is also the most expensive mistake. Guide after commercial guide describes the Gold Coast as having "no permit to chase" and treats the rates category as the whole compliance story. The City's own fact sheet contradicts that in a sentence, and the gap between those two accounts is where owners buy a house in a low density suburb and then discover the approval is impact assessable.
• Rates shock is the complaint that comes up first. It's easy to see why when a house moves from a $1,358.90 minimum general rate to $4,844.40 by changing nothing except who sleeps in it. Owners who list a property mid-year and get recategorised tend to describe it as coming out of nowhere, though the rating statement does spell out that a public listing is the evidence.
• Body corporate fights get talked about far more than they get won. Section 180(3) is well known in Queensland strata circles, and buildings that try to ban short letting outright generally can't. What committees do instead is tighten noise, parking, lift booking and common property rules, which is a slower and much more effective squeeze.
• Party house is the line even relaxed hosts respect. The two-parties-in-twelve-months threshold turns a bad tenant year into a prohibited use, and prohibited means unfixable. Owners who lease to schoolies-week groups or event crowds are running that risk whether or not they know the definition.

The recurring theme, if there is one, is a mismatch of registers. The Gold Coast reads as relaxed because there's no cap, no register and no levy, and then the actual gate turns out to be a planning approval that most residential addresses can only get through public notification. Watch out for advice that only describes the first half of that.

One caveat on the primary source itself, since I'd rather you knew. The City's short-term accommodation fact sheet is dated 23 February 2024 and is written against City Plan Version 11, while the current version is Version 13, which commenced on 9 December 2025. Nothing on the council's City Plan amendments page targets short-term or tourist accommodation in between, so I've treated the fact sheet as current. Even so, confirm the assessment level for your own address before you spend money on an application.

Once you know which side of that line your address falls on, price the thing properly. The Gold Coast market data on BNBCalc shows what comparable properties are earning and how sharply demand swings between school holidays and the shoulder months, which is what tells you whether an $11,312 impact assessable application pays for itself or not.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you legally run an Airbnb in Gold Coast in 2026?

Yes, but usually only with a development approval. Short-term accommodation is a Tourist and entertainment activity under the Gold Coast City Plan, code assessable in seven named locations including the Centre zone, High density residential zone and the Major tourism zone at The Spit, and impact assessable everywhere else in the city. Impact assessable means public notification, neighbour submissions and appeal rights. Using a dwelling for short-term accommodation without the necessary approval is a development offence under the Planning Act 2016.

How much does a Gold Coast short-term accommodation approval cost?

In the City of Gold Coast Register of Fees and Charges 2026-27, a material change of use application for short-term accommodation with 10 or fewer units, rooms or beds costs $8,488.00 if the application is code assessable and $11,312.00 if it is impact assessable. Above 10 units, the code assessable fee starts at $17,006.00 plus $287.00 per additional unit. Those are council fees only and exclude town planning, technical reports and public notification costs.

Do you pay extra council rates for a Gold Coast Airbnb?

Yes, and the difference is large. In the 2026-27 Revenue Statement, a detached house rented to itinerants falls in rating category 3A at 0.813533 cents in the dollar with a minimum general rate of $4,844.40, against 0.230644 cents and a $1,358.90 minimum for the same house owner-occupied. A unit of 70m² or less on levels 5 to 10 goes from a $1,495.00 minimum to $5,040.60. An itinerant is anyone staying fewer than 42 consecutive days.

Can a Queensland body corporate ban short-term rentals?

Generally no. Section 180(3) of the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 says that if a lot may lawfully be used for residential purposes, the by-laws cannot restrict the type of residential use, and section 180(4) prevents a by-law from restricting leasing. That protects a lawful short-term letting use, not an unapproved one. A body corporate can still enforce by-laws about noise, parking, behaviour and use of common property.

What are the penalties for an unapproved short-term rental on the Gold Coast?

Carrying out assessable development without the necessary permits carries a maximum of 4,500 penalty units under the Planning Act 2016, which is $777,150 at the Queensland penalty unit value of $172.70 that took effect on 1 July 2026. Operating rental accommodation without a licence under Local Law No. 16 carries up to 50 penalty units, or $8,635. Allowing excessive noise to be regularly emitted from a short-stay property carries up to 200 penalty units, or $34,540.

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