Chattanooga does not impose an annual cap on the number of nights an STVR may be rented. Instead, the definition limits each booking to 30 days or fewer; a stay of more than 30 continuous days is no longer a short-term rental. Homestays and absentee rentals can operate year-round if
The regulatory line is the length of each stay, not a yearly night total. A short-term vacation rental is a use where sleeping accommodations are supplied for pay on a daily or weekly basis for no more than 30 days. Rentals for 30 or more continuous days fall outside the STVR rules (and outside marketplace occupancy-tax collection). There is no separate 'X nights per year' ceiling for either homestay or absentee certificates, so a certified STVR may host throughout the year. Tennessee's Short-Term Rental Unit Act (TCA 13-7-603) further protects pre-existing STVR uses from later local restrictions.
Booking a guest for more than 30 continuous days converts the use to a long-term tenancy, taking it outside STVR authorization and marketplace tax collection.
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