The Town of Gilbert imposes NO annual or per-stay night cap on short-term rentals. Arizona Revised Statutes § 9-500.39 expressly preempts cities and towns from prohibiting STRs or capping the number of nights or units used as vacation rentals. Stays under 30 consecutive days are taxable transient lodging.
Under A.R.S. § 9-500.39 (originally SB 1350, 2016; amended by SB 1168 in 2022 and HB 2374 in 2022), Arizona cities and towns may not prohibit vacation rentals or short-term rentals or restrict their use, classification or occupancy except through fire, building, sanitation, traffic, noise and zoning rules applied uniformly to similarly classified residential properties. State preemption blocks Gilbert from enacting an annual cap on the number of nights a property may be rented or a town-wide cap on the total number of STR units. Gilbert Town Code Chapter 14, Article III (adopted June 2023) accordingly contains no nightly cap; it focuses on Town licensing, $500,000 liability insurance, emergency contacts, neighbor notice and nuisance enforcement. The only stay-length threshold is the state definition: rentals of less than 30 consecutive days are short-term and subject to Arizona TPT plus Gilbert's local lodging tax; stays of 30 days or more fall outside the STR ordinance. Confirm any pending changes with ShortTermRentals@gilbertaz.gov.
Because no Gilbert night cap exists, there is no per-night-cap citation. Operating without the required Chapter 14 Article III Town license still triggers escalating civil fines up to $500 / $1,000 / $3,500 under A.R.S. § 9-500.39, plus possible TPT license suspension by the Arizona Department of Revenue.
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