Huntington, NY Short-Term Rentals: Extended Home Share (2026)

Article IV of Chapter 160, added in 2017, defines a short term rental as a dwelling unit, room, or group of rooms in an owner-occupied one- or two-family home, including homes with a valid accessory dwelling unit permit, rented for a tenancy under thirty consecutive days where no meals are served; it excludes mixed-use buildings, multiple dwellings, dormitories, hotels, motels, bed-and-breakfasts and boarding houses. Section 160-49 sets the core rules: a permit is required before the property is used, established, rented or leased as a short-term rental, and even advertising it without a permit is itself a violation under Subsection C.

The property must be owner-occupied as the owner's principal residence, and it cannot be used as a short-term rental for more than ninety days in a calendar year absent a hardship exemption from the Director. No more than two bedrooms in a dwelling unit may be rented, and cooking facilities are barred from short-term rental rooms unless the unit has a valid accessory dwelling unit permit. , and signage advertising a property as a short-term rental is prohibited outright. Applications go to the Department of Public Safety with a fifty-dollar nonrefundable fee, government-issued proof of residency, and a notarized owner certification of no meal service and code compliance; a permit is valid for one year and renews for a twenty-five-dollar fee.