The City of Noblesville does not cap the number of nights per year a short-term rental may be booked. Indiana Code 36-1-24-4 forbids any local ordinance that has the express or practical effect of prohibiting short-term rentals, which would include a low annual-night cap. The only durational limit in Noblesville's code is UDO Section 159.125's rule that a Bed and Breakfast Establishment may not host any single guest for more than thirty consecutive days.
Noblesville's Unified Development Ordinance contains no annual or monthly cap on the number of nights a short-term rental property may be booked. Indiana Code 36-1-24-4 expressly bars local units from adopting or enforcing 'any ordinance that has the express or practical effect of prohibiting short term rentals,' which courts and commentators read to limit aggressive night-cap rules that effectively shut down STR operations. Compare jurisdictions that do cap nights: Indianapolis's 2024 STR ordinance imposed a registration requirement but not a hard annual-night cap; some California and Hawaii cities cap non-primary-residence STRs at 30 to 90 nights per year. The closest durational rule in the Noblesville UDO is Section 159.125, which provides that 'accommodations shall not be provided to a particular guest for more than thirty consecutive days' at a Bed and Breakfast Establishment - a per-guest length-of-stay rule, not an annual rental cap. The B&B rule also limits B&Bs to owner-occupied single-family homes with no more than eight guest rooms and requires BZA approval before opening. Standard STR operators in Noblesville are not subject to a B&B conditional-use review under IC 36-1-24-8.
Because Noblesville has no STR night cap, there is no per-night-cap violation to enforce. A non-owner-occupied STR that triggers special-exception review under IC 36-1-24-9 could in theory have nights-of-operation conditions imposed by the Board of Zoning Appeals, but only if those conditions do not have the practical effect of prohibiting STRs (which would violate IC 36-1-24-4). At a Bed and Breakfast Establishment, allowing a guest to stay more than thirty consecutive days is a UDO Section 159.125 violation enforceable through the Department of Planning and Development.
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