Glynn County, GA Short-Term Rentals: Extended Home Share (2026)

The Short-Term Rental Ordinance defines its own reach narrowly. Section 2-31-3(p) defines a Short-Term Rental as lodging provided for compensation for a period not to exceed 30 consecutive days, and § 2-31-15 spells out two situations that fall outside the ordinance entirely. Under § 2-31-15(a), a home under contract that is occupied by the buyer or seller for less than 30 consecutive days before or after closing is not a Short-Term Rental and needs no Certificate. Under § 2-31-15(b), real property occupied by, or offered to, the same person for more than 30 consecutive days is likewise exempt, so a month-to-month or longer furnished lease to one tenant sits outside the ordinance.

Both exemptions carry the same guardrail: the property must not also be furnished or offered to any other person during the same calendar year for 30 days or less at a time. That condition stops an owner from claiming the extended-stay exemption for one tenancy while running the same unit as an unlicensed short-term rental the rest of the year. Because the ordinance excludes Jekyll Island entirely under § 2-31-2, an extended stay there is outside this Chapter regardless of length, since it falls under the state Jekyll Island Authority's own rules instead.