Chesterfield sets no maximum number of rental nights per year. The defining limit is that each booking must be under 30 consecutive days; a guest occupying 30 or more consecutive days is no longer transient and is tax-exempt.
The county's short-term rental framework caps stay length, not annual volume: a short-term rental is lodging for fewer than 30 consecutive days. There is no published annual night cap on how many nights per year an owner may rent. Once the same guest occupies for 30 or more consecutive days, the stay falls outside the transient definition and outside the transient occupancy tax. The zoning use limits (owner-operated, one per lot, eight adults) still apply on every booking.
Exceeding zoning use standards is enforceable; there is no separate night-cap penalty because no annual cap exists.
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