Bill 41 imposes liability on Airbnb, VRBO, and similar booking platforms that list unpermitted Honolulu short-term rentals, requiring registration verification and quarterly data reporting to DPP.
Ordinance 22-7 requires booking platforms operating in Honolulu to display a valid registration number for every transient accommodation listing, remove non-compliant listings within ten days of DPP notice, and submit quarterly reports identifying property addresses, hosts, and stay lengths. Platforms that fail to remove flagged listings face fines per listing per day. The ordinance withstood a 2022 Hawaii Hosts v. City and County of Honolulu federal challenge under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Failing to delist unpermitted properties or omitting registration numbers can result in platform fines of $10,000 per listing per day and contempt orders.
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Honolulu, HI
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