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

Do you own a place in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec 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 is unusually relaxed about where. Saint-Jérôme's own tourist accommodation page says a principal-residence establishment is "autorisé partout sur le territoire", which is to say permitted across the whole city rather than in some short list of tourist zones, as long as you meet the conditions attached to it.

Then comes the catch, and it's a real one. The moment the property stops being the home you actually live in, you're not running a home rental any more, you're running a résidence de tourisme, and Saint-Jérôme classes that as a commercial accommodation use, allowed only in the zones that already permit it. The city sits in the MRC de La Rivière-du-Nord at the southern gate of the Laurentides, so plenty of buyers turn up here hunting for exactly the chalet-style rental the region is famous for. Unfortunately for most of them, an ordinary residential street in Saint-Jérôme isn't where that use belongs.

So let's walk through what it actually takes to do this properly: which of Quebec's three establishment categories you land in, the $50 conformity notice the city has to sign before the province will even look at your file, what registration costs and how long it lasts, the three taxes that attach to a stay, and who to call when your situation doesn't fit the boxes. Every figure below comes from Saint-Jérôme's own by-laws or Quebec's own statutes, checked in July 2026, and where the city's website hasn't caught up with its own rulebook I've flagged it. If you're weighing a Saint-Jérôme property against markets where a whole unit can go on the platform without a zoning question, run both through BNBCalc first.

What are Short-Term Rental (Airbnb, VRBO) Regulations in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec?

Before you can compare anything, you need to know which of two very different rulebooks your property sits under, because almost everything else follows from that one split.

The provincial layer comes first, since it defines the vocabulary the city then borrows. Quebec's Tourist Accommodation Act covers any establishment where at least one unit is "offered for rent to tourists, in return for payment, for a period not exceeding 31 days", and section 4 makes operating one subject to registration with the Minister.

The Tourist Accommodation Regulation then sorts those establishments into three classes in its very first section. A principal-residence establishment is the one you rent out while living in it, let to one person or one related group at a time on a single reservation, with no meals served on site. A youth establishment is a hostel or something close to it. Everything else lands in the general class, and that's the catch-all which swallows hotels, inns and every furnished chalet or apartment rented out by someone who lives elsewhere.

Saint-Jérôme's zoning by-law 0351-000 then maps those classes onto its own land-use classification, and this is the part a 2024-era guide will get wrong, because 0351-000 is new. It was adopted on 13 May 2025, came into force on 2 June 2025, and has been amended nine times since, most recently on 14 July 2026. Anything citing Saint-Jérôme by-law 0309-000 is quoting a rulebook the city has replaced.

Under the new by-law, two things happen at once:

• A principal-residence establishment is an additional use. Article 61 lists "un établissement d'hébergement de résidence principale" among the uses authorised as an usage additionnel to any main use in the Habitation group. There's no zone list attached and no article of extra conditions, which is exactly why the city can say it's allowed across the territory.
• Everything else is a commercial use. The by-law defines a résidence de tourisme as an establishment "other than a principal residence" offering furnished apartments, houses or chalets, and files it as sub-class C302 inside use class "C3 - Hébergement", alongside hotels, motels and inns. C3 is only available where a zone's specification grid allows it.

That generosity toward resident hosts isn't really Saint-Jérôme being kind, mind you. Section 23 of the Tourist Accommodation Act forbids any municipal zoning provision from prohibiting a principal-residence tourist rental outright, and a municipality that wants to carve one out has to go through a special amending procedure in which the referendum threshold is cut by 50%. Saint-Jérôme hasn't taken that route, so the statutory default stands.

Two neighbouring uses are worth knowing about, since people confuse them with short-term rental constantly. A gîte touristique under Article 66 is a bed and breakfast in a detached single-family home where you live, capped at five rented rooms, with a smoke detector in each room and rented floor area limited to half the habitable floor area. Location de chambres ou pension under Article 67 is the plainer version: at most two rooms for at most four people, 50 square metres maximum, a window to the outside in each room, and no kitchen equipment in the rooms. Keep in mind that renting rooms this way to tourists for 31 days or less still makes you a tourist accommodation establishment in the province's eyes, so the registration duty follows you there too.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in Saint-Jérôme

Since the whole framework turns on whether you live in the place, the honest first question still isn't about permits at all. It's whether the property is your principal residence. The by-law defines that as the home where you habitually live and centre your family and social life, and whose address you hand to most government departments, so it isn't a label you get to choose.

Assuming the answer is yes, your path is short and cheap, and the next two sections still cover it end to end. Assuming it's no, you're applying to run a commercial accommodation business in a residential city, so you need a zone that permits use class C3 before anything else matters. I have to be straight with you about a limit in the public record, though. The specification grids that say which zones allow C3 live in Annexe 2 of the by-law, and the consolidated PDF the city publishes carries only that annexe's cover page rather than the grids behind it. So I can give you the rule and I can't give you your address's answer. Do check yours with the planning staff before you make an offer on anything, because the difference between a C3 zone and the street beside it is the whole business case.

There's a second constraint in Article 61 that catches people in multiplexes, though it's easy to skim past. For a single-family or two-family dwelling, the by-law allows two additional uses at most, though only one of those may bring customers to the site. For a triplex or anything bigger, it allows a single additional use per home, and that use has to be one which brings nobody in. So read literally, that second rule sits awkwardly beside a rental that plainly does bring people in. The by-law never defines the phrase it turns on, and section 23 of the provincial Act pushes the other way, so if you live in a triplex or a condo, be aware this is a question to put to the city in writing rather than one to assume your way through.

Renters and condo owners have a third gate on top of the municipal one, and it's contractual rather than zoning. Section 3 of the Tourist Accommodation Regulation requires the province to see either a lease that permits tourist accommodation or the landlord's authorisation, and in a divided co-ownership either the declaration's own permitting clauses or the syndicate's consent. No consent, no registration, no matter how the zoning reads. Quebec is consistent on this from one city to the next, so the Chambly guide and the Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu guide will show you the same provincial machinery bolted onto different zoning.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirements in Saint-Jérôme

Once you know your use is allowed, registration itself still runs in two steps, and they only work in one order. The city goes first, then the province, because Quebec won't process an application that isn't already blessed by the municipality.

Step one is the avis de conformité à la réglementation municipale, and it's you who starts it, not the city. So you download the form from the CITQ, fill in sections 1 to 3 yourself, and then get Saint-Jérôme to sign the rest. The city takes it either in person at the Centrale du citoyen at 10 rue Saint-Joseph or through its online request form, and it charges $50 to process the request, which is the same $50 listed for a "demande d'attestation de conformité" in Annexe 19 of the city's fee by-law 0774-000. For an online submission a city representative calls you back to take payment by credit card, and if the answer turns out to be no, they tell you why.

Step two is registration with the Corporation de l'industrie touristique du Québec, which the Minister has delegated to run the register. The annual fee depends on nothing but your category, and as of July 2026 the CITQ's fee page puts it at $54 for a principal-residence establishment, $131 for a youth establishment and $156 for a general establishment, effective 1 January 2026 and unchanged on renewal. Those figures come straight from sections 6 and 7 of the Tourist Accommodation Regulation, indexed by the notice published in the Gazette officielle on 10 January 2026.

What you get back is a registration certificate, and the conditions riding on it are where the real work sits:

• It lasts 12 months. The CITQ's registration certificate page is explicit that the certificate runs for the registration period of 12 months and a fresh one arrives each year after renewal. Section 5 of the Regulation makes you file the renewal within the 60 days before your end date, so don't forget to put that window in your calendar rather than trusting a reminder email.
• It isn't transferable. Section 7 of the Act says so flatly, and the CITQ repeats it: a buyer who wants to keep renting has to apply from scratch.
• You must carry $2,000,000 of civil liability insurance per event. Section 8 of the Regulation sets the floor, and proof of it is part of the application, not something to sort out later.
• The number goes in every advertisement. Section 9 already required the registration number in all publicity and on any website used to promote the establishment, and since 9 April 2026 the ministry's amendments extend that expressly to social media.
• The certificate goes on the door. The same April 2026 change moved the display duty from "in view of the public" at the building entrance to in view of tourist clientele at the establishment's own main entrance.

Platforms carry the matching duty, which is what gives all of this teeth. Section 20.1 of the Act bars anyone running a digital accommodation platform from publishing an offer that lacks the registration number and the certificate's expiry date, and it also bars them from letting a booking of under 32 days go through for an establishment that isn't registered or whose registration has expired, been suspended or been cancelled. No valid number, no booking.

Then there's one thing you don't need, and it changed only recently. A principal-residence rental takes no municipal change-of-use certificate at all, because Article 101 of Saint-Jérôme's permits and certificates by-law 0355-000 exempts "un établissement d'hébergement de résidence principale" from that requirement, an exemption added by by-law 0355-001 on 28 January 2026. A résidence de tourisme is a different story, since adding or changing a use does trigger the certificate under Article 89, at a fee of $50. That one isn't on the city's online permit list either, so you'll be booking an appointment through the Centrale du citoyen rather than filing it at midnight.

Required Documents for Saint-Jérôme Short-Term Rentals

Since that $50 conformity notice is the gate everything else waits behind, it's still worth assembling your file before you start rather than halfway through. The CITQ's file-opening page sets out what has to be in hand before you begin an online application, and section 3 of the Regulation is the legal version of the same list.

• The signed avis de conformité, issued by Saint-Jérôme. Without a compliant document from the competent authority, the CITQ says plainly that your application can't be processed.
• Proof you're entitled to the property: the title deed, the municipal or school tax bill, or the lease.
• Proof of civil liability insurance of at least $2,000,000 per event.
• Interior and exterior photographs of the establishment, matching the ones you intend to publish on a platform.
• Co-ownership or landlord consent, where the declaration of co-ownership or the lease doesn't already permit tourist accommodation. The CITQ publishes model authorisations you can use as they are.
• Your record of relevant convictions, if any. Section 2 of the Regulation asks whether you've been found guilty in the last three years of an offence under the Tourist Accommodation Act, the Building Act, the Consumer Protection Act, the Environment Quality Act or the wildlife statute, and section 9 of the Act lets the Minister refuse you on that basis.

Two of those requirements get heavier on 1 September 2026, so watch out if your renewal falls after that date. From then on, the ministry's March 2026 announcement confirms that registering or renewing a principal-residence establishment takes two proofs of principal residence rather than one, and the owner's or syndicate's consent has to be supplied at every annual renewal instead of once at first registration, on standardised forms. Anyone who registered in 2023 on a landlord's one-off signature will feel that change first.

Then, for a commercial file, there's the municipal paperwork on top of all that. Article 102 of by-law 0355-000 wants the address, the business name, the type of activity, a description of the new use, the existing and proposed uses, and a contact who the utilities can reach in a hurry.

Saint-Jérôme Short-Term Rental Taxes

Assuming you get through all that and are able to start taking bookings, there's still tax to deal with, and three separate charges can attach to a single night in Saint-Jérôme. The rates are set provincially and federally, so nothing here is a Saint-Jérôme decision, but which ones land on you does depend on where the property sits.

Charge	Rate	Who collects it
Québec tax on lodging	3.5% of the price of the overnight stay	the digital platform where it's a QST registrant, otherwise you
GST	5%	you if you're registered for GST/HST, otherwise the platform operator
QST	9.975%	the registrant making the taxable supply
Municipal accommodation tax	none in Quebec	not applicable

The lodging tax is the one that turns on geography. Section 541.24 of the Act respecting the Québec sales tax charges its 3.5% only where a prescribed establishment sits inside a prescribed tourist region, and it says the same where the supply runs through a digital accommodation platform operated by a registrant. Both halves of that test catch Saint-Jérôme, since section 541.24R1 of the Regulation respecting the Québec sales tax prescribes principal-residence and general tourist accommodation establishments, while Schedule II.2 lists Saint-Jérôme by name inside the Laurentides tourist region. So you're in. Do note the shape of the rate too, by the way, since it lands on the price of the night rather than on your total payout.

GST is federal and simpler, because the CRA's platform-based accommodation guidance applies it at 5% in Quebec to accommodation occupied continuously for less than one month costing more than $20 a night. Collection then splits cleanly: a host registered for GST/HST charges and collects it themselves, including on platform bookings, while an unregistered host has the platform operator do it. Registration generally becomes mandatory once your taxable supplies pass $30,000 over four consecutive calendar quarters, and QST then sits on top at the 9.975% rate fixed by section 16 of the Québec sales tax Act.

What you won't find in Saint-Jérôme is a municipal accommodation tax, and that's a real difference from the rest of the country. Ontario municipalities can impose one of their own on top of everything else under the province's transient accommodation tax regulation, which sets no maximum rate at all, whereas Quebec doesn't hand its cities that power, so the 3.5% lodging tax is the entire regional layer here. That's a genuine cost advantage worth carrying into your model, and the Granby guide shows the same arithmetic in another Quebec market.

Tax Deductions and Write-Offs

Ordinary rental deductions apply to the income, though Ottawa attached a condition in 2024 that makes compliance a tax question rather than just a legal one. Section 67.7 of the Income Tax Act denies deductions for a "non-compliant short-term rental", which it defines as one operated where short-term rentals aren't permitted, or one that fails to meet the applicable registration, licensing and permit requirements. The denial is prorated: your expenses are multiplied by non-compliant days over total short-term rental days, so a mid-year registration doesn't wipe out the whole year. Renting without a CITQ number in Saint-Jérôme therefore costs you the deductions as well as exposing you to a fine, which is a combination that gets expensive faster than most people model it.

Quebec Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

That federal deduction rule leans on provincial compliance, so it's worth seeing how much of the framework above is Quebec's rather than Saint-Jérôme's. The answer is nearly all of it. The city decides where a use may go and signs the conformity notice; the province does everything else.

Registration itself is provincial, and so is the register. Section 21.1 of the Act makes the Minister keep a public register showing each establishment's class, registration number, certificate issue and expiry dates and current status, which means a guest, a neighbour or a competitor can look you up.

The CITQ's own registration statistics show what the Laurentides market looks like through that lens, and the gap is striking. Since I last checked, the region carried roughly 3,477 general tourist accommodation establishments against only about 322 principal-residence ones. This is chalet country, then, and the commercial category dominates it by more than ten to one.

The penalties are provincial too, and they're heavier than municipal fines by an order of magnitude. Under sections 26 to 30 of the Act:

• Operating or purporting to operate an unregistered establishment, making a false declaration, or advertising a registration number that's false, inaccurate or expired draws $2,500 to $25,000 for an individual and $5,000 to $50,000 for anyone else.
• Operating after a registration has been refused, suspended or cancelled draws $5,000 to $50,000 for an individual and $10,000 to $100,000 otherwise.
• A platform that publishes a non-compliant offer faces $5,000 to $50,000, or $10,000 to $100,000 for a legal person.
• Minimums and maximums double for a second offence and triple for any subsequent one.

Section 33 is the provision hosts underestimate. In any penal proceeding, proof that the offence was committed in relation to a building you own is enough to establish that you committed it, unless you can show you took all necessary precautions. The burden lands on the owner, which is not how most people assume enforcement works. Read that one twice.

There's also a municipal escalation route worth knowing, because it links your neighbours' complaints to your provincial registration. Section 12 of the Act lets a municipality ask the Minister to suspend or cancel a registration, and section 10 of the Regulation says when the request bites: two or more convictions in a 12-month period under municipal by-laws on uses, nuisances, sanitation or safety. And for a principal-residence establishment it also counts convictions picked up by your guests. That's the part which should make you care how they behave at 1 a.m., because a well-founded request buys a two-month suspension, then six months on a repeat, and cancellation after that. Quebec applies all of this to every municipality alike, whereas British Columbia wrote its own principal-residence rule into housing law and switched it on community by community, so the Abbotsford guide is worth a look if you want to see how differently the same idea can land.

Does Saint-Jérôme Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

Given how that suspension route works, the more useful question then isn't whether Saint-Jérôme sends inspectors out, but who's actually holding the lever, and in Quebec it isn't the city. The ministry's March 2026 statement is explicit that Revenu Québec carries the inspections, the investigations and the penal provisions of the Tourist Accommodation Act, and that it works across all 21 tourist regions with particular attention to transactional platforms.

So the city's own tools are narrower, though they're a lot faster. Article 162 of by-law 0355-000 fines you $500 as an individual and $1,000 as a legal person for contravening the planning by-laws, and $1,000 or $2,000 for doing work without the required permit or certificate or for maintaining a non-conforming situation. Costs go on top of that, the maximum doubles on a repeat, and every day a continuing offence lasts counts as a separate one.

Saint-Jérôme's nuisance by-law 0209-000, last amended on 21 January 2026, does the party-house work, since article 13 makes any noise of 45 dB or more between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. at the property line a nuisance and article 31 sets $300, then $1,000, then $2,000 for an individual per day of offence. Those are exactly the convictions that feed section 10 of the provincial Regulation, so two noisy weekends aren't just two tickets.

The strongest enforcement in practice isn't a fine at all. It's the listing that can't go up, because the platform is barred from publishing an offer without a valid number and expiry date, and barred from taking a booking under 32 days for an unregistered establishment. The province's own numbers suggest that's working: the ministry reports that compliance among offers listed simultaneously on Airbnb and Vrbo reached 87.6% in 2025, against 34.5% in 2022.

Two honest caveats belong beside those numbers. Revenu Québec's website blocks automated access, so I couldn't read its enforcement reporting directly and I'm not quoting inspection or fine totals from it. And Saint-Jérôme municipal court records aren't published online, so while I can describe the machinery from the by-law text, I can't tell you how often the city has actually used it on a rental.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in Saint-Jérôme

Knowing all that, the order of operations matters more than it looks, because the early steps decide whether the later ones are worth paying for at all.

1. Settle the principal-residence question honestly. It's the home you habitually live in and give as your address to most government departments. Everything downstream, from the fee to the zoning, hangs on this answer.
2. Check your zone if it isn't your principal residence. You need a zone where use class C3 is permitted. The grids aren't in the published consolidated by-law, so call the planning staff with your address before you commit money.
3. Clear the private consents. Read your lease or your declaration of co-ownership, and get the landlord's or syndicate's written authorisation if it's silent. From 1 September 2026 you'll be re-supplying that consent every year.
4. Buy the insurance. Civil liability cover of at least $2,000,000 per event, in force before you apply.
5. Get the avis de conformité signed. Fill in sections 1 to 3 of the CITQ form, submit it at 10 rue Saint-Joseph or online, and pay the $50.
6. Apply to the CITQ and pay the annual fee. $54 for a principal residence, $156 for a general establishment, with photographs, proof of title or lease and the insurance certificate attached.
7. Take the commercial certificate if you need one. A résidence de tourisme is a change of use under by-law 0355-000, at $50, booked through the Centrale du citoyen.
8. Set up the display duties on day one. Registration number in every advertisement and on social media, expiry date in the platform listing, certificate posted at the establishment's main entrance where guests can see it, and a copy sent to each platform you use.
9. Register for the taxes you'll owe. Confirm with your platform in writing which of the 3.5% lodging tax, GST and QST it collects on your behalf, and register yourself for whatever it doesn't.
10. Diarise the renewal. File within the 60 days before expiry, budget for two proofs of principal residence, and remember that a lapsed number takes your listing down rather than merely generating a warning.

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

Whichever step you get stuck on, three organisations handle almost all of it between them, and knowing which one owns your question will save you a lot of transferred calls.

The city: zoning, the conformity notice and permits

The Centrale du citoyen is Saint-Jérôme's single front door for requests, complaints, permits and the conformity notice.

• Address: 10, rue Saint-Joseph, bureau 103, Saint-Jérôme, Quebec J7Z 7G7
• Phone: 450 569-5000, with non-public-safety emergencies answered 24 hours a day
• Hours: Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed weekends and statutory holidays
• Online: the requête en ligne form, which is also how you file the conformity notice remotely

The hôtel de ville handles general administration at 300, rue Parent, Saint-Jérôme J7Z 7Z7, on 450 436-1512, open Monday to Thursday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Friday 8:30 a.m. to noon. Do remember that the city routes permit and complaint traffic through the Centrale du citoyen rather than through that number. A contested ticket, meanwhile, ends up at Saint-Jérôme's cour municipale, at 280, rue Labelle, Saint-Jérôme J7Z 5L1, on 450 432-0585.

One caution about the city's own web pages. The tourist accommodation page still describes the use through the old "Règlement relatif à l'urbanisme et à la sécurité incendie" and an old use code, while the operative instrument has been by-law 0351-000 since June 2025. The substance lines up, but if you're quoting a section number to anyone, quote it from the current by-law.

The province: registration and the certificate

The Corporation de l'industrie touristique du Québec opens files, issues certificates and handles renewals under delegation from the Minister of Tourism.

• Address: 1010, rue De Sérigny, bureau 810, Longueuil, Quebec J4K 5G7
• Phone: 450 679-3737 or 1 866 499-0550, 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Monday to Friday
• Laurentides extension: 244, which reaches the agent assigned to files in this tourist region
• Email: [email protected]

Revenu Québec administers the tax on lodging and the QST and runs inspections and penal enforcement under the Tourist Accommodation Act. Its site blocked every automated request I made, so I'm not publishing a phone number I couldn't verify against a page I actually read. Reach it through the contact details on your lodging tax registration correspondence, and treat its guidance rather than mine as the last word on which taxes your platform is remitting.

What Do Airbnb Hosts in Saint-Jérôme on Reddit and Bigger Pockets Think about Local Regulations?

Since I've just told you where the official answers come from, it's only fair to be equally clear about where the unofficial ones don't. Reddit blocks automated access, so nothing below is a quotation from a thread I read, and it isn't a survey. What follows is my read of the recurring themes in public discussion of Quebec short-term rental rules, and you should weigh it accordingly.

• The conformity notice is what surprises people. Hosts elsewhere in Canada expect to apply to one authority. In Quebec you apply to two, in a fixed order, and the CITQ will simply stop your file if the municipal document isn't attached. The $50 is trivial; the sequencing is not.
• The principal-residence line does most of the arguing. The category is generous if you live there and closed if you don't, with no middle tier for a second home, and that binary is where most of the frustration lands in a region full of second homes.
• Renewal fatigue is the recurring complaint, not the rules themselves. A 12-month certificate, a 60-day filing window, an insurance certificate and, from September 2026, a fresh landlord or syndicate consent every year adds up to a real annual chore for a spare room.
• Nobody seriously argues the rules go unenforced any more. That debate ended when the platforms started refusing listings without a valid number, and the province's jump from 34.5% to 87.6% compliance is the number people point at.

If you want to see how that plays out commercially rather than legally, the Canada market pages are where the demand side of this decision lives, and they're worth reading beside the rules rather than after them. Because that's the shape of the bargain Quebec struck. It made being legal in your own home cheap and quick, and being legal in a second one a zoning question you might well lose, so the numbers only ever work for the version you're actually allowed to run.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you legally run an Airbnb in Saint-Jérôme in 2026?

Yes, with a registration. If the property is your principal residence, Saint-Jérôme's zoning by-law 0351-000 authorises the use as an additional use to any residential main use across the territory. If it isn't, it's a résidence de tourisme, a commercial accommodation use permitted only in zones that allow use class C3. Either way you need a signed municipal conformity notice first and then a Quebec registration certificate, which must be renewed every 12 months.

How much does it cost to register a short-term rental in Saint-Jérôme?

Two payments. Saint-Jérôme charges $50 to process the avis de conformité under Annexe 19 of its fee by-law 0774-000. Quebec then charges an annual registration fee set by the Tourist Accommodation Regulation and effective 1 January 2026: $54 for a principal-residence establishment, $131 for a youth establishment and $156 for a general establishment, the same amounts on renewal. A commercial change-of-use certificate from the city adds another $50.

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

Three, and none of them are municipal. Quebec's tax on lodging is 3.5% of the price of the overnight stay, and it applies here because Schedule II.2 of the Regulation respecting the Québec sales tax lists Saint-Jérôme in the Laurentides tourist region. GST is 5% on accommodation of less than one month costing more than $20 a night, and QST is 9.975%. Where you aren't registered yourself, the platform generally collects.

What happens if you rent on Airbnb in Saint-Jérôme without registering?

The listing usually never runs, because platforms are barred from publishing an offer without a valid registration number and expiry date. If you operate anyway, the fine for an unregistered establishment runs from $2,500 to $25,000 for an individual, doubled on a second offence and tripled after that, and section 67.7 of the Income Tax Act denies your rental deductions for every non-compliant day. Proof that the offence happened at a building you own is enough to establish you committed it.

Can you rent out a second home or a cottage in Saint-Jérôme?

Only where the zoning allows it. A property that isn't your principal residence is a résidence de tourisme, which by-law 0351-000 files under use class C3 alongside hotels and motels, so it's permitted only in zones that already authorise that class. The specification grids that answer this per address aren't in the published consolidated by-law, so confirm your zone with the city's planning staff before buying. The registration category is a general establishment at $156 a year.

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