Corona, CA Short-Term Rentals: Host Platform Liability (2026)

040 targets the booking platforms directly, not just hosts. Subsection (A) states that hosting platforms shall not complete any booking transaction for short-term residential rentals in the city. Subsection (B) requires that no later than 30 days after any person seeks to use a hosting platform to list a short-term rental in Corona, the platform must give the Director written notice of the names and contact information for the responsible person(s), the listing address, the length of stay, and the price quoted for each stay.

Subsection (C) bars platforms from collecting or receiving any compensation, monetary or non-monetary, directly or through an agent, for facilitating the rental, extending expressly to ancillary services such as insurance, concierge services, catering, restaurant bookings, tours, guide services, entertainment, cleaning, or property or unit maintenance tied to the rental. Subsection (D) is a severability clause: the section applies only to the extent it is not preempted by, or found to violate, state or federal law, an acknowledgment that platform-liability rules of this kind (including under the federal Communications Decency Act) can draw legal challenges. 030, the platform restrictions function as a backstop that closes off the marketplace mechanism operators would otherwise use to find guests and process payment.