Indiana defines a short-term rental as a stay of fewer than 30 days (IC 36-1-24-6) but sets no annual cap on rental nights. Lake County imposes no statewide-style night limit; any cap on the number of rental nights cannot effectively prohibit STRs.
IC 36-1-24-6 defines a short term rental as the rental of residential property 'for terms of less than thirty (30) days at a time through a short term rental platform.' The chapter contains no annual night limit, and because IC 36-1-24-9 bars a unit from enforcing zoning 'in a manner that is intended or has the effect of prohibiting or unreasonably restricting short term rentals,' a hard annual night cap would be legally vulnerable for non-owner-occupied STRs and cannot apply to owner-occupied STRs, which are a protected use. Unincorporated Lake County has adopted no night cap; the practical limit is the under-30-day-per-stay definition itself.
There is no county night-cap violation to enforce; enforcement instead addresses stays that exceed 30 days (which fall outside the STR definition) and other ordinance violations.
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