Avondale sets NO annual cap on how many nights a property may be rented short-term. Arizona A.R.S. 9-500.39 prevents cities from limiting STR nights or banning them; the only threshold is the under-30-day definition that triggers transient lodging tax and licensing.
Avondale does not impose a maximum number of rental nights per year, nor a minimum-stay requirement, on licensed short-term rentals. The ordinance defines and regulates rentals of fewer than 30 consecutive days but does not limit how often or how many total nights an owner may rent. This is a direct consequence of A.R.S. section 9-500.39, which bars cities from prohibiting short-term rentals and from imposing the kind of usage caps (annual night limits, frequency limits) that some other states allow. The practical thresholds that matter in Avondale are tax- and license-driven rather than night-cap-driven: any stay under 30 days is transient lodging that must be licensed with the city and taxed under the transient lodging TPT classification, while stays of 30 days or more fall outside the short-term rental rules. Owners can therefore operate year-round so long as they maintain the city license, keep a responsive emergency contact, carry the required insurance, and comply with health, safety and nuisance rules. The city's enforcement leverage comes from those conditions and the prohibition on parties/events, not from a ceiling on nights rented.
There is no night-cap violation because no cap exists. Enforcement instead targets operating without a license, lapses in insurance or emergency contact, prohibited parties, and nuisance conduct, all of which carry the ordinance's fines (reported $500 to $3,500 per violation) and possible license suspension.
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