Chicago places direct legal duties on short-term rental platforms under MCC 4-14-260 and 4-14-270, requiring monthly listing reports to BACP, removal of unregistered listings, display of registration numbers, and remittance of city accommodation taxes.
MCC 4-14-260 governs Shared Housing Unit Operators, the licensed intermediaries through which most Airbnb-style listings flow. MCC 4-14-270 layers additional duties on online platforms: monthly transmission of listing data including host name, address, and registration number; expedited removal of any listing that lacks a valid Chicago registration or appears on the Prohibited Buildings List; collection and remittance of the Hotel Accommodations Tax and Shared Housing Surcharge; and cooperation with BACP audits. Platforms that fail these duties face per-listing per-day fines, license suspension as a Shared Housing Unit Operator, and exclusion from the Chicago market until compliance is restored.
Platforms ignoring monthly reporting, hosting unregistered listings, or under-remitting taxes face MCC 4-14-270 fines of $1,500 to $5,000 per listing per day, plus operator license suspension and back-tax assessments by the Department of Finance.
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