Lima sets NO annual night cap or maximum number of rental days for short-term rentals. Because the City has no STR ordinance, a registered rental may operate year-round. The only durational line comes from Ohio's lodging-tax definition of a transient guest as a stay under thirty consecutive days.
Night caps (limits on how many nights per year a unit may be rented short-term) exist only where a city adopts an STR ordinance. Lima has not, so there is no yearly ceiling on short-term-rental nights and no hosted-versus-unhosted day distinction. A property registered under Chapter 872 and permitted in its zoning district may be short-term rented throughout the year. The only relevant duration figure in play is definitional: Ohio Revised Code 5739.01(N) treats occupancy for fewer than thirty consecutive days as a 'transient guest' stay for lodging-tax purposes, which distinguishes a taxable short stay from a longer tenancy but does not cap the number of stays. Ohio law imposes no statewide night cap, leaving the choice to municipalities.
There is no night-cap violation because Lima sets no annual limit. Enforcement risk comes instead from operating without registering the unit (Chapter 872), from a zoning-use violation, or from unpaid lodging tax on transient stays.
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