Glen Cove, NY Rental Property Rules: Rental Registration (2026)

Article IX of the Housing Standards, Chapter 168's Landlord Registry, added January 25, 2000, requires every owner of a one-family or two-family dwelling unit engaged in rental occupancy in Glen Cove to register the premises with the Building Department, on a form the department provides (§168-65A). The City Council found that a significant number of the city's one- and two-family rentals are owned by absentee landlords, that housing violations tied to those properties make up the majority of significant housing prosecutions filed in City Court, and that registration would better ensure enforcement and compliance with housing standards (§168-64).

It is unlawful, and a violation of the article, for any person or entity to maintain, use, lease, rent, or permit occupancy of a dwelling unit as a rental after the chapter's effective date without having registered it with the Building Department (§168-65B). 'Rental occupancy' means occupancy under an arrangement where the occupant pays rent, and there is a rebuttable presumption that any dwelling not occupied by its owner is a rental occupancy (§168-65C). The registration duty does not apply to hotels and motels operating as such, hospitals, senior congregate care and assisted living, nursing homes, apartment houses and registered multiple dwellings, garden apartments, government-owned public housing, and registered boarding and rooming houses (§168-65F).

An owner who occupies the dwelling, or whose immediate family maintains bona fide occupancy there, is exempt from registering, but only one property per owner of record can claim that exemption, and a corporation cannot claim it at all (§168-66). The registry application must be filed with a fee set by City Council resolution (§168-67A).