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

Unincorporated Calaveras County does not impose an annual-night cap limiting how many nights per year a property may be rented short-term. The County's draft countywide Short-Term Vacation Rental Ordinance reviewed in 2025 leaned toward a registration system administered by the Tax Collector and did not propose an annual operating-night ceiling; public commenters specifically noted that the draft contained no limitation on the location or number of short-term rentals in any one neighborhood, meaning the County was not pursuing density or saturation caps either. The only night-related threshold that matters countywide is the 30-day line in the Transient Occupancy Tax: a stay of 30 days or fewer is a taxable transient occupancy subject to the 12% TOT under Chapter 3.12, while longer tenancies fall outside the tax. In the four regulated Lake Tulloch subdivisions, Chapter 20.20 includes length-of-stay standards aimed at how the rentals operate (for example minimum-stay or seasonal conditions), but those are conduct rules rather than a per-year night cap; confirm the exact terms in the current chapter text. Because the countywide ordinance had not been adopted as of mid-2025, operators should verify with County Planning whether any night-cap or density rule has since been added, particularly in high-demand communities such as Arnold, Murphys and the Lake Tulloch area where saturation concerns have been raised publicly.