Tuolumne County, CA Short-Term Rentals: Night Caps (2026)

Some jurisdictions cap unhosted short-term rentals at a set number of nights per year (for example, 90 nights) to limit whole-home rentals. Tuolumne County's adopted short-term rental framework does not include an annual night cap. Under Ordinance Code Chapter 8.70, the operating condition is passing a Fire and Life Safety Inspection (renewed every two years), and under Ordinance Code Chapter 3.32 the operator must collect and remit the 12% transient occupancy tax on every taxable stay. Neither imposes a ceiling on how many nights per year a property may be rented, so a qualifying short-term rental in the unincorporated area can operate year-round. The County definition of a short-term rental as overnight lodging of one night up to 30 days sets the per-stay length boundary (stays longer than 30 days are not transient and fall outside the TOT and STR program), but it does not limit cumulative annual nights. Any effective night limit in practice comes from private governance: communities such as Pine Mountain Lake administer their own short-term rental permit policies and CC&Rs, which can restrict rental activity, and operators should confirm whether their HOA imposes seasonal or annual limits that the County itself does not.