Lima does not require a host to be present during a short-term stay or to designate a 24/7 local contact. Because the City has no STR ordinance, unhosted whole-home rentals are allowed. The owner does remain responsible for the unit under the Rental Housing Registration (Chapter 872) and the City's
Some cities require an on-site host or a local contact who can respond within a set time. Lima has adopted no short-term rental ordinance and therefore imposes no host-presence or designated-local-contact mandate for STRs. An owner may operate an unhosted, whole-home short-term rental. Accountability instead runs through the Rental Housing Unit Registration (Chapter 872), which ties each non-owner-occupied unit to a registered owner and requires the owner to keep contact information current with the City (updating within 30 days of a change), and through the City's general nuisance and property-maintenance enforcement. Ohio law does not require host presence at short-term rentals, leaving the question to municipalities, and Lima has not adopted such a rule.
There is no host-presence violation because no such rule exists. However, an owner who fails to keep registration contact information current under Chapter 872, or who lets the property become a nuisance, can be cited by Code Enforcement.
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