Rhode Island HB 9275 and A8284 push booking platforms toward listing-level compliance checks, while Providence enforces local STR registration directly against hosts and, where possible, platforms.
Under Rhode Island's partial STR preemption framework, online platforms are expected to display state registration numbers and may share data with regulators. Providence supplements this with its own STR registration database, requiring listings within city limits to include a valid local permit number. Platforms found repeatedly hosting unregistered Providence listings can be referred to state regulators and the Attorney General. The city focuses primary enforcement on hosts but uses platform takedown requests, complaint logs, and tax-collection agreements to close gaps in the registry.
Hosts using non-compliant listings face fines and de-registration, while platforms ignoring takedown requests may face state-level enforcement under Rhode Island's STR statute.
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