Lincoln's Municipal Code does not impose an annual cap on short-term-rental nights — there is no 30-day, 90-day, or 180-day limit such as those adopted in San Francisco or Santa Monica.
Lincoln's published code titles (per the City's confirmation that 'the City of Lincoln's ordinances are available through the Municipal Code') do not include a dedicated STR chapter in Title 18 (Zoning) that imposes annual night caps. Unhosted (whole-home) rentals are therefore not numerically capped at the City level. State law also does not impose a generalized annual cap; California's principal STR-related statutes — AB 1482 (Civ. Code §1946.2/§1947.12 just-cause and rent cap) — exempt short-term tenancies of 30 days or fewer from rent-control coverage but do not cap the number of nights a host may rent. Hosts in Lincoln are constrained only by: (i) business-license obligations under LMC Title 5; (ii) nuisance and noise standards under LMC Title 9; and (iii) zoning use definitions in LMC Title 18, which may distinguish 'single-family residential' from 'transient lodging' for a use that becomes effectively year-round commercial.
No City fine attaches to night counts. However, operating an STR at a scale that converts a residence into de facto transient lodging without the matching zoning entitlement can be cited as a zoning violation under LMC Title 18, typically as a Gov. Code §36900(b) infraction ($100/$200/$500 tiered fines per day).
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