Upland, CA Short-Term Rentals: Host Platform Liability (2026)
Key Facts
- TOT collection duty
- Platform acts as host's managing agent
- Listing data disclosure
- Name, address, length of stay, price
- Registration number
- Required on every listing
- Non-compliant listing
- Bookings must stop within 5 business days
- Governing section
- Upland Municipal Code § 17.23.1.100
Summary
Upland's Short-Term Rental ordinance makes hosting platforms like Airbnb or Vrbo act as the host's tax agent: they must collect and remit transient occupancy tax, disclose listing details to the city, require the city registration number on every listing, and stop booking any listing the city flags as non-compliant.
A. Hosting platforms shall be responsible for collecting all applicable transient occupancy tax (TOT) and remitting the same to the City. The hosting platform shall be considered a managing agent of the host for purpose of TOT collections and remittance responsibilities as set forth in Chapter 3.12 of the Upland Municipal Code. B. Subject to applicable laws, hosting platforms shall disclose to the City on a regular basis each short-term rental listing located in the City... C. Hosting platforms shall require hosts to include the City-issued registration number in their listing(s)... Upon notice from the City that a listing is non-compliant, hosting platforms shall cease any short-term rental booking transactions for said listing(s) within five business days.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4480959; v4 updated 2025-09-22).
Full Breakdown
12. Subsection (B) requires platforms to periodically disclose to the city every Upland listing, including the responsible person's name, the listing address, length of stay, and price paid. Subsection (C) requires listings to display the city-issued registration number, and once the city notifies a platform that a listing is non-compliant, the platform must stop taking bookings for it within five business days and cannot resume until the city confirms compliance. Subsection (D), not directly quoted here, bars platforms from collecting fees for services tied to a vacation rental or an unregistered short-term rental.
Subsection (F) caps this authority: the section "will not apply if determined by the City to be in violation of, or preempted by" state or federal law, so the ordinance is written to yield to any conflicting Communications Decency Act or other federal defense a platform might raise.
Violations & Fines
Facilitating bookings for a listing the city has flagged as non-compliant, or continuing bookings past the five-business-day cutoff in § 17.23.1.100(C), exposes the underlying rental to the same public-nuisance and misdemeanor enforcement under §§ 17.23.1.110(B)-(C) that applies to an unpermitted host, with each day of continued violation treated as a separate offense.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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