Montebello has no host-presence or hosted-versus-unhosted rule for short-term rentals because it has no STR ordinance. No code provision requires the owner to be on-site during a guest's stay.
The Montebello code does not distinguish hosted from unhosted short-term rentals and imposes no requirement that the operator live on-site or be present during a guest's stay, because the city has adopted no STR ordinance in Title 5 or Title 17. The only presence-related concept in the residential zoning code is the R-1 accessory use allowing an owner to rent up to two rooms to no more than four boarders per dwelling unit (MMC 17.14.020), which is a boarding use, not a transient one. For transient lodging, the operator's obligations are administrative: registering for and remitting transient occupancy tax under Chapter 3.40. Confirm zoning permissibility with Planning, since transient rental is not a listed use.
Because no host-presence rule exists, there is no on-site presence violation; enforcement instead turns on zoning permissibility under Title 17 and transient occupancy tax compliance under Chapter 3.40.
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