New London, Connecticut Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a place in New London, Connecticut and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that you can, and there's no city permit to apply for, no registration number to display in your listing, and no annual fee attached to short-term renting. New London sits on the Thames River in New London County, across the water from Groton and a short drive from Mystic, and while plenty of southeastern Connecticut towns spent the past few years arguing over short-term rental ordinances, this city never adopted one.

Unregulated isn't quite the same thing as expressly allowed, though, and New London's paperwork shows the seam. Its zoning regulations say that any use not specifically permitted is prohibited, they define a dwelling as rooms designed for non-transient occupation, and the only two lodging uses they name for a house are a bed and breakfast inn and a tourist home, both owner-occupied, both needing a special permit. Sitting alongside that is Chapter 12 of the city code, a licensing chapter for hotels, lodging and rooming houses written long before anyone had heard of Airbnb and never withdrawn since. On top of all that, state law has expressly let the city council license and regulate short-term rentals since October 2024, the moment it decides to.

So let's walk through what that actually means for a New London host in 2026: what the zoning code covers and what it quietly doesn't, the one old licence that might reach you, the 15% state tax and who hands it over, how enforcement works here in practice, and who to call at City Hall when you get stuck. Everything below comes from New London's own code and regulations, Connecticut's statutes and the Department of Revenue Services, checked in July 2026, and where I couldn't pin something down I've said so rather than guessed. Before you buy on the strength of a loose rulebook, run the property through BNBCalc first.

What are Short-Term Rental (Airbnb, VRBO) Regulations in New London, Connecticut?

That seam between "no ordinance" and "no permission" is worth opening up, because the honest answer to this question comes in two halves and only one of them is comfortable.

The comfortable half first. New London has no short-term rental law of any kind. When the Southeastern Connecticut Council of Governments surveyed its member towns for its regional short-term rental report, New London answered "Yes" to whether it allows short-term rentals and "No" to whether it regulates them, with nothing at all in the column asking how.

The state's own legislative researchers landed in the same place from the other direction, since OLR report 2024-R-0044 identified twelve Connecticut towns that expressly regulate short-term rentals by ordinance or zoning and New London isn't one of them. Read through the New London Code of Ordinances, updated online on December 5, 2025, and you'll find chapters on everything from animals and fowl to sober homes, and not one word about short-term rentals.

Now the uncomfortable half. New London's zoning is a closed-list code, which is a species of rule that catches people out. Section 320.1 of the city's zoning regulations, the set amended to October 24, 2018, states that "any uses not specifically permitted shall be deemed to be prohibited". The definitions article then describes a dwelling as rooms "designed for non transient occupation by one family". Since nothing in the regulations names a short-term rental as a use, and since a paying guest staying four nights is about as transient as occupation gets, you can see where that leaves you.

Even the regional council's own report notes that some Connecticut municipalities "have taken the position that short-term rentals are prohibited, if they are not expressly permitted in their zoning regulations."

The two lodging uses the code does name both look nothing like a modern whole-home listing:

• Bed & Breakfast Inn. An owner-occupied residential building with at least two guest rooms that have no cooking facilities of their own, using no more than 60% of the gross floor area, holding no more than 16 people including the owners, where no guest stays longer than 21 consecutive days.
• Boarding House, Lodging or Rooming House. A building where sleeping rooms are rented to more than three but not more than 15 people, transient or permanent, and without separate cooking facilities. Fifteen or more and it becomes a hotel.
• Tourist Home. Permitted by special permit in the R-3 district and upward, and the regulations say the purpose of the provision is "to allow Tourist Homes such as youth hostels, for overnight use of transients."

So the city tells its regional planning agency that short-term rentals are allowed, while the letter of its zoning code has no room for them. Both are true at once, and living with that ambiguity is the actual condition of hosting here. It beats what Connecticut hosts face in Stonington or Preston, and it's less secure than a written permission would be.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in New London

Given that nobody in New London will hand you a piece of paper saying yes, starting here is less about applications than about satisfying yourself that nothing bites. The list of things that could bite is short, thankfully, and you can work through most of it in an afternoon.

Start with the constraints the city hasn't imposed, because they matter as much as the ones it has. There's no cap on the number of short-term rentals in New London, no owner-occupancy requirement, no minimum night stay and no annual inspection. Nor is there a local contact rule, neighbour notification, a parking standard written for guests, or a permit number to carry in your listing. Next to what a host in Bozrah or Ledyard has been through, that's a remarkably clean field.

Then work through what could still trip you. Your deed, your condo declaration and your association rules are private contracts the city has nothing to do with, and they're the most common way a Connecticut short-term rental gets shut down in a town with no ordinance, so do read them before you buy furniture. Your mortgage servicer and your insurer both care too, since a standard homeowners policy generally treats paying guests as a commercial exposure. And you'll want to know your zoning district before anything else, because it decides whether the special-permit route below is even open to you.

One route is definitively closed, though: you can't ask the Zoning Board of Appeals to bless a short-term rental as a variance, because New London's regulations state, following Connecticut General Statutes § 8-6, that use variances are prohibited. A variance can forgive a setback or a lot-size problem, yet it can't create a use the code doesn't list, so the board is not your escape hatch here.

That leaves two honest ways to think about the risk. Most hosts simply operate, because the city doesn't regulate short-term rentals and says so, and because there's no complaint on file at their address. The more cautious route is to build the property as a bed and breakfast inn or a tourist home under the special permit provisions. That gets you a written approval you can point at, though you pay for it by living on site and capping every stay at 21 or 12 consecutive days respectively, which rules out the absentee whole-house model entirely. Almost nobody takes it. And that's fine, as long as you're clear that skipping it is a judgement call about risk rather than a compliance step you've completed.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirements in New London

Since there's no short-term rental licence to hold, the licensing question then turns into a different one: is there an older licence that still reaches you? There's one candidate, and it deserves a careful look rather than a shrug.

Rewritten in full in 2018 and still on the books, Chapter 12 of the New London Code of Ordinances covers hotels, lodging and rooming houses, convalescent homes and sober homes. Section 12-2 puts it bluntly, too: no person, firm or corporation may conduct, operate or maintain a hotel, lodging or rooming house in the city without a licence under the chapter. It's the definitions that matter, because a lodging house means "any house patronized by roving, or transient, persons to whom beds or rooms are furnished, and as contain accommodations for not fewer than five (5) persons". A rooming house, meanwhile, covers buildings furnishing sleeping accommodations for hire for up to 24 guests, and it expressly includes "all tourists homes advertised as such" while excluding "private dwellings which accommodate not more than two (2) habitational guests".

Read that lodging house definition next to a three-bedroom house that sleeps six and takes weekend bookings, and the overlap is hard to miss.

Whether the city sees it that way is another matter, so let me be straight with you: I couldn't find any New London guidance, licence list or enforcement notice applying Chapter 12 to an Airbnb, and the city's own answer to its regional council says it doesn't regulate short-term rentals at all. Treat this as an open question worth one phone call to the Building Department, then, rather than as a requirement you're currently breaching.

Should you decide to get licensed anyway, the process itself is short enough. The application goes to the building inspector on his own forms, stating your name, address, the location and the number of sleeping accommodations, with the fee paid to the city treasurer at filing and returned if the licence isn't granted. From there, three officials inspect the premises and file written reports: the fire marshal on fire and safety, the health officer on health and sanitation, and the building inspector on the building code. The licence only issues where all three come back approved and the use complies with the city's zoning regulations, which loops you straight back into the closed-list problem above.

The money is trivial by modern standards. Under section 12-9, a lodging or rooming house with not more than five sleeping rooms pays $60, one with more than five pays $95, and hotels pay $125 or $175 depending on size. Keep in mind that the term isn't twelve months from your approval, since every licence expires on the first day of June following issuance and renewals have to reach the building inspector on or before May 1 each year. A licence granted in April buys you about six weeks before you renew it.

The zoning special permits are the heavier lift by a long way. A bed and breakfast inn needs several things at once: a special use permit and site plan from the Planning and Zoning Commission, a dimensioned floor plan showing which rooms serve guests and which serve you, written certification from both the Fire Marshal and the Building Inspector, and Public Health Code compliance. Then come at least two guest rooms of 120 square feet or more, one full bathroom per two guest rooms plus one for your own use, and off-street parking screened from the neighbours.

And the owner has to live there. Where the owner is a company, a person holding at least 25% has to be in residence whenever rooms are rented. Stays cap at 21 consecutive days, the guest book has to be produced to the Zoning Enforcement Officer within ten days of a written request, and the permit comes up for renewal every three years and can be revoked for non-compliance at any time. A tourist home runs on the same machinery with a 12-day stay cap, at least three guest rooms, and the owner or manager resident in the property.

Required Documents for New London Short-Term Rentals

Because none of those permits is mandatory for an ordinary listing, the paperwork most New London hosts genuinely need is thinner than in almost any comparable market. It's worth knowing exactly what the short list is, all the same, so nothing turns up as a surprise in year two.

For a plain short-term rental the city asks you for nothing. What you should still be able to put your hands on:

• Your Connecticut room occupancy tax registration, if you take any booking outside a platform that collects for you. That's a Department of Revenue Services registration through myconneCT, not a city one.
• Proof that your deed, condo documents or association rules permit transient occupancy. Nobody asks for this until a dispute starts, at which point it becomes the only document that matters.
• A short-term rental endorsement or commercial policy from your insurer, in writing. Guest injury on a property your carrier believed was owner-occupied is an expensive discovery to make late.
• Smoke and carbon monoxide alarm records. No New London ordinance requires them, though the State Fire Safety Code applies to the building regardless, and a dated photograph after each test costs you nothing.

Should you go the Chapter 12 licence route, add the building inspector's application form, the count of sleeping accommodations, and the $60 or $95 fee payable to the City of New London. Go the special-permit route instead and the file grows a lot: a special use permit application and site plan, a floor plan with the dimensions and square footage of every room and the areas dedicated to guests and to your own use, entrances, exits, driveways and parking, written certification or waivers from the Fire Marshal and Building Inspector, and evidence of Public Health Code compliance. The Commission can require those plans to be sealed by a licensed architect, surveyor or engineer, which is the line item that turns a hobby application into a professional one.

One number the city does publish: the administrative zoning permit application for a new business carries a $25.00 fee as of July 2026, payable by cash, check or money order to the City of New London. Special permit fees run on the city's separate schedule, which I couldn't reach during this research pass, so do ask the Planning, Zoning & Wetlands Division for the current figure rather than budgeting off an old number you found online.

New London Short-Term Rental Taxes

Assuming you get through all of that and are able to start taking bookings, there's still tax to deal with, and this is the one area where New London hosts get no local discretion whatsoever. Connecticut runs lodging tax at the state level and nowhere else. New London adds nothing.

Charge	Rate	Who collects it
Connecticut room occupancy tax, short-term home rental	15% of rent	Airbnb and other qualifying platforms, otherwise you, via DRS
Connecticut room occupancy tax, bed and breakfast establishment	11% of rent	Same
New London local lodging or occupancy tax	None	No Connecticut town has one

The Department of Revenue Services room occupancy tax page sets those rates out plainly, and it names short-term home rentals in the 15% band rather than leaving hosts to guess at which band they fall into. The statutory basis is Connecticut General Statutes § 12-408(1)(B), which imposes the room occupancy rate in place of the ordinary 6.35% sales tax, so you aren't stacking the two.

The tax covers 30 consecutive calendar days or less, and DRS is explicit that beginning on the 31st consecutive day of occupancy by the same person, the tax stops applying. Make sure you count that from the guest's arrival rather than from the calendar month, because a 30-night booking and a 31-night booking are taxed very differently.

Who hands the money over depends entirely on how you take bookings. Connecticut General Statutes § 12-408h puts the tax obligation on the platform once it has handled at least $250,000 of Connecticut short-term rental bookings over the previous twelve months, so it charges the guest and pays the state, and you aren't separately liable for that booking.

Airbnb's Connecticut tax page confirms it collects the 15% state room occupancy tax (11% for bed and breakfast establishments) on the listing price including cleaning fees, for the first 30 nights of a reservation, with no tax at all where a reservation runs over 90 nights. Vrbo's own jurisdiction pages didn't resolve to a Connecticut entry when I checked in July 2026, so do check your payout breakdown there rather than assuming it behaves the same way.

Book direct, through your own website or any channel that doesn't collect, and the obligation lands back on you. Registering for room occupancy tax with DRS costs $100 as of July 2026, waived if you already hold or are applying for a sales and use tax permit, and from then on Form OP-210 has to be filed and paid electronically by the last day of the month following the period. Monthly filing on a handful of direct bookings is a genuine nuisance, which is the main reason small New London hosts keep everything on one platform.

On deductions, the income is ordinary taxable income and the usual expenses come off it: mortgage interest, property tax, insurance, utilities, cleaning, supplies, platform fees, repairs and depreciation. Renting part of the year or part of the house means apportioning nearly all of that, which is fiddlier than it looks on a spreadsheet, so keep a nightly occupancy log from day one rather than reconstructing one in April.

Connecticut-Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

New London's freedom to do nothing is itself a product of state law, so the statewide layer is where a host should look next, and it moved in a meaningful way quite recently.

Until 2024 it wasn't even settled whether a Connecticut town had authority to regulate short-term rentals, and Public Act 24-143, § 7, codified as Connecticut General Statutes § 7-148qq and effective October 1, 2024, settled it in favour of the towns. Any municipality may now, by vote of its legislative body, "adopt an ordinance requiring the licensure of short-term rental properties in such municipality and regulating the operation and use of such properties," and it may hire consultants to help write one. So there's no state ceiling on what a town can do, no preemption protecting hosts, and nothing grandfathering anyone already operating. New London's city council holds that power today and simply hasn't used it.

What Connecticut still doesn't have, though, is a statewide registry, which is where a lot of 2025-era writing about the state has gone stale. House Bill 5536 would've required every short-term rental advertised outside a platform to register annually with DRS for $100, and would've let towns add a supplemental tax of up to 2.75%. It cleared the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee 36 to 18 on March 30, 2026 and was tabled for the House calendar on April 16, yet it never reached a floor vote before the session adjourned on May 6, 2026, so it isn't law. Its 2025 predecessor failed too, and OLR report 2026-R-0025, published January 20, 2026, confirms that the 2024 municipal-authority provision is the only short-term rental measure the legislature enacted across the 2024 and 2025 sessions. So if you've read that Connecticut hosts had to register with the state by January 1, 2026, that claim describes a bill that died rather than a law that passed.

One more thing worth watching, since it may shape the next few sessions: the legislature created a nine-member task force in 2025 (P.A. 25-73, § 7) to study large corporate acquisitions of residential property, and OLR notes that the effect of absentee landlords moving housing into the short-term rental market came up at its December 17, 2025 meeting. Its report to the Housing and Planning & Development committees was due January 1, 2026 and still wasn't complete as of OLR's writing, so my guess is that whatever it eventually recommends becomes the seed of the next registry bill.

For the wider picture, our Connecticut short-term rental guide covers the statewide framework in more depth. And if you're comparing shoreline markets before you commit, the Norwich guide covers the other city in New London County, the Branford guide covers a smaller shoreline town further west, and the New Haven County guide maps the county next door.

Does New London Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

Because New London has no short-term rental rules of its own, there's nothing here for a code officer to enforce against a listing as such, and no inspector is going to knock because you took a booking. That's the plain answer. What can still reach you is ordinary zoning enforcement, and it runs on complaints rather than patrols.

The city publishes a zoning complaint form, and that's the realistic trigger: a neighbour irritated by parking, noise or a rotating cast of strangers files one, and the Zoning Enforcement Officer looks at your property. Where that happens and the officer decides an unlisted use is being conducted, Section 990 of the zoning regulations is not gentle. A violation is a misdemeanour carrying a fine of not less than $10 and not more than $100 for each and every day it continues, rising to between $100 and $250 a day if the offence is wilful. Ignore an order to remove the violation for ten days and a $250 civil penalty payable to the City Treasurer follows on top, with ten days' imprisonment possible for each day as well. Read the daily accrual carefully, because that's the part that turns a nuisance into a real number.

Chapter 12 works the same way, since violations there are misdemeanours fined up to $100 and each day is a separate offence.

In practice I found no record of New London bringing either of those against a short-term rental, and I did look. The Planning and Zoning Commission's own 2026 agendas carry adaptive-reuse hearings, façade reviews, accessory apartments and a rolling Plan of Conservation and Development discussion, without a single short-term rental item among them.

So the enforcement risk here isn't a fine landing tomorrow. It's a slower thing: one persistent complaint, one election, one council that decides to use the authority the state handed it in October 2024. Watch out for the Plan of Conservation and Development in particular, since that kind of rewrite is usually where a Connecticut city first writes down what it thinks about short-term rentals, and the zoning amendments follow it rather than lead it.

The regional record shows how fast this can move in either direction, too. Around New London, Ledyard adopted short-term rental zoning regulations and then had its Planning and Zoning Commission rescind them in September 2023, while Stonington voters defeated a town ordinance at referendum in March 2023 and Norwich considered a city ordinance without ever enacting it. So nothing here is settled.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in New London

Given how little the city asks of you, the sequence below is mostly about protecting yourself from everything the city isn't checking. Work through it roughly in order, because the early steps are the ones that can kill a deal before you've spent money.

1. Confirm the zoning district for the exact address. Ask the Planning, Zoning & Wetlands Division rather than reading a map yourself, and while you have them, ask whether they consider a whole-home short-term rental a permitted use. Their answer, and the date you got it, is worth writing down.
2. Read the deed, the condo declaration and the association rules. In a city with no ordinance, these are the documents that actually decide whether you can host.
3. Ask the Building Department whether Chapter 12 applies to your setup. If your house sleeps five or more and you rent it by the day, that lodging house definition is worth a direct question, and a $60 licence is cheap insurance where the answer comes back yes.
4. Sort insurance before your first booking. Get short-term rental coverage in writing, and tell your mortgage servicer if your note requires it.
5. Register with DRS only if you need to. Booking solely through Airbnb or another qualifying platform means it remits the 15% for you, whereas adding any direct channel brings the room occupancy tax registration and monthly Form OP-210 filings with it.
6. Fit and log the safety kit. Smoke and carbon monoxide alarms on every level, a fire extinguisher in the kitchen, exit information for guests. No New London rule requires it, though the State Fire Safety Code applies to the building anyway.
7. Design the operation for the neighbours, not the regulator. Off-street parking, a written quiet-hours policy, a local contact who can be at the door inside the hour. The complaint you never receive is the enforcement action that never starts.
8. Diarise the city calendar. Planning and Zoning meets on the third Thursday of the month at 7:00 p.m. in City Council Chambers, and agendas are posted a week ahead, so ten minutes a month keeps you ahead of any ordinance rather than reacting to one.
9. Model the property honestly before you commit. Demand here is real but seasonal and tied tightly to the Mystic and shoreline corridor, so underwrite off comparable performance rather than a summer weekend. Do look at how New London's short-term rental market is performing now, and do it before the furniture budget rather than after.

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

Whichever of those steps stalls first, three city offices and one state one will answer almost anything between them, and knowing which one owns your question saves a lot of transferred calls. One honesty note before the list: the city's own website wouldn't load for me during this research pass, so the names and addresses below come from the Planning and Zoning Commission's own posted 2026 agendas rather than from department pages I could open.

Zoning, permitted uses and special permits

The Planning, Zoning & Wetlands Division, inside the Office of Development & Planning, administers and enforces the zoning regulations and staffs the Planning and Zoning Commission, the Zoning Board of Appeals and the Inland Wetland/Conservation Commission. This is your first call.

• Address: City Hall, 2nd Floor, 181 State Street, New London, CT 06320
• Division phone: (860) 437-6379
• Division email: [email protected]
• Planning & Zoning Official: Michelle Johnson Scovish, [email protected]
• Land Use Coordinator: Shelly Reed, [email protected]
• City Hall main line: 860-447-5200, Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
• Applications: land-use applications moved online in March 2024 and are filed through the city's OpenGov portal at newlondonct.portal.opengov.com

The Commission meets at 7:00 p.m. in City Council Chambers on the 3rd floor, and written public comment has to reach both the Planning & Zoning Official and the Land Use Coordinator by 3:00 p.m. on the day of the hearing.

Chapter 12 licences, building permits and certificates of occupancy

The Building Department issues the hotel, lodging and rooming house licence, routes the file to the fire marshal and health officer, and handles building permits and the certificate of occupancy for any conversion work.

• Phone: 860-447-5240, printed on the city's own building permit application packet
• Address: City Hall, 181 State Street, New London, CT 06320

Health, septic and food

Ledge Light Health District is the health authority for New London and eight neighbouring towns, and it's the health officer referenced in the Chapter 12 inspection process. The city's own new business checklist names it as the health contact for anyone opening up here.

• Address: 216 Broad Street, New London, CT 06320
• Phone: 860-448-4882
• Fax: 860-448-4885

State tax

Room occupancy tax registration, Form OP-210 and myconneCT belong to the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services rather than to the city, and its room occupancy tax pages carry the current rates, thresholds and filing deadlines.

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

Since so little of this is written down at City Hall, hosts here end up trading interpretations instead of rules, and that shows in how the conversation runs. What follows is my read of the public discussion and the documentary record rather than any kind of survey, so do weigh it accordingly. I haven't quoted a forum thread, because I couldn't verify one that discussed New London's regulations specifically.

• Nobody argues about compliance, because there's nothing to comply with. Where hosts in Stonington or Ledyard swap notes on permit conditions, the New London conversation runs on occupancy, seasonality and the local event calendar. That absence is itself the signal.
• The anxiety is about the next council, not the current one. Every experienced Connecticut host has now watched a neighbouring town try this, and the regional record backs the instinct up: Ledyard's commission rescinded its rules in September 2023, Stonington's voters rejected an ordinance at referendum in March 2023, and Norwich considered one and didn't enact it.
• The closed-list zoning problem is under-discussed. Most hosts I've seen describe New London as simply unregulated, without the qualification that its zoning code prohibits uses it doesn't name. That distinction has never mattered here in practice, and it would matter a great deal on the day a complaint reached the Zoning Enforcement Officer.
• Chapter 12 comes up almost never. A licensing chapter written for rooming houses, priced at $60 and expiring every June, doesn't read like something aimed at an Airbnb, so it gets ignored. Given the definition it carries, I'd rather ask and be told no than discover it in a hearing.

Rules that were never written down are the easiest thing to live with and the hardest thing to plan around, and that trade sits at the centre of any market shaped like this one. A place with a permit, a fee and an inspection tells you exactly what it will tolerate, whereas a place with none of that tells you only what it has tolerated so far. So run the property as though the written version already existed, and the day it arrives costs you a form instead of your business.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you legally run an Airbnb in New London, Connecticut in 2026?

Yes, in the practical sense. New London has no short-term rental ordinance, no registration and no local permit, and it told the Southeastern Connecticut Council of Governments that it allows short-term rentals and does not regulate them. The caveat is that its zoning regulations prohibit any use they don't specifically name, and they don't name short-term rentals. No enforcement has followed from that so far, though it's an ambiguity rather than a written permission.

Do you need a licence or permit to rent your New London home short term?

Not for a short-term rental as such. There's nothing to register, no fee and no permit number to display. Chapter 12 of the city code does require a licence to operate a hotel, lodging or rooming house, and its lodging house definition covers houses furnished to transient persons with accommodations for five or more people, which is worth checking with the Building Department if your property sleeps five or more. The fee, where it applies, is $60 or $95 a year.

What taxes do New London short-term rental hosts pay?

Connecticut charges a state room occupancy tax of 15% on short-term home rentals and 11% on bed and breakfast establishments, applied to the first 30 consecutive days of a stay. There is no New London city lodging tax and no county tax. Airbnb collects and remits the 15% on bookings it processes. Take bookings any other way and you must register with the Department of Revenue Services for $100 and file Form OP-210 monthly.

Is there a Connecticut statewide short-term rental registry?

No. House Bill 5536 would've created a Department of Revenue Services registry with a $100 annual fee, and it cleared committee in March 2026 but died without a floor vote when the session adjourned on May 6, 2026. Its 2025 predecessor failed too. The only enacted state measure is Public Act 24-143, § 7, which since October 1, 2024 has let any municipality license and regulate short-term rentals by ordinance.

What happens if a neighbour complains about your New London short-term rental?

The complaint goes to the Zoning Enforcement Officer through the city's zoning complaint form, and the officer decides whether an unlisted use is being conducted. Section 990 of the zoning regulations makes a violation a misdemeanour carrying $10 to $100 for each day it continues, $100 to $250 a day if wilful, plus a $250 civil penalty if you ignore an order to stop for ten days. The daily accrual is what makes this expensive, rather than the headline figure.

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