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

The Home-Sharing Ordinance puts compliance obligations directly on booking platforms, not just individual hosts. Within 45 days of the ordinance taking effect (and before listing in the City afterward), a platform must give the Department of City Planning contact information for a representative who can respond to inquiries about possible violations. On an ongoing, at-least-monthly basis, the platform must report each listing's Home-Sharing registration number, the responsible person's name, the listing's street address, and the number of days booked in the period: data the City uses to catch hosts who exceed the 120-day cap or never registered at all.

A platform can avoid these direct reporting duties only two ways: by following Administrative Guidelines the Department of City Planning issues and the City Council approves describing how the platform will meet its responsibilities, or by signing an individual Platform Agreement with the City, which typically also makes the platform responsible for collecting and remitting Transient Occupancy Tax on the host's behalf. 32(g) treats platform noncompliance far more harshly than routine host violations, reflecting the ordinance's reliance on platforms as the primary checkpoint for registration and the 120-day limit.