Boulder, CO Short-Term Rentals: Host Presence Rule (2026)

C. " The rule sits alongside a near-identical requirement for standard, longer-term rentals: Section 10-3-14 requires any rental property whose owner or operator is not a natural person domiciled in Boulder County to appoint a local agent "capable of responding to the property within sixty minutes" to receive legal notices, including notices under the Property Maintenance Code's unsafe-structure and emergency-measures provisions. For short-term rentals specifically, the two named contacts serve the practical function of handling guest or neighbor problems quickly, since the license itself is tied to the property being the licensee's own principal residence under subsection (j); the contacts are not necessarily the licensee, but for owner-operated units they can be permanent residents living on the property.

The application must supply this information up front under subsection (c), and a licensee renewing the license must reaffirm the principal-residence status annually under subsection (p), though the sixty-minute contact requirement itself is captured at initial application rather than as a separate annual filing described in this chapter.