Perth Amboy, NJ Short-Term Rentals: Night Caps (2026)

The night cap sits in § 369-2E of the Perth Amboy City Code, part of Chapter 369 (Short-Term Rentals), adopted by the City Council on 6-24-2024 as Ord. No. 2169-2024. It says that, except as provided in Subsection H, rentals of any dwelling unit where the owner/operator of the short-term rental property is not present shall be conducted no more than 60 total nights per calendar year. The section prints the cap only for rentals without the owner or operator present.

The count is per calendar year and per dwelling unit, and every night over the limit is its own violation. That matters because § 369-7A lets the Court assess fines of up to $2,000 per violation, and not less than $100 per violation per day that the violation exists. The owner, transient occupants, the short-term property rental agent and the responsible party can all be named.

Subsection H is the carve-out. An owner who was operating two properties as short-term rentals when the chapter was adopted can continue one non-owner-occupied property, if it fits a § 369-2B classification, an individual designated by the owner lives there, and it complies with the rest of the chapter. Section 369-2F separately bans absent-owner rentals in multiple dwellings of more than four units, so the cap never applies there.

The cap works alongside other operating limits. A short-term rental is defined in § 369-1 as occupancy for 28 or fewer consecutive days. Section 369-6B limits a dwelling unit to three short-term rental contracts at a time. Section 369-4G requires the owner or agent to keep an up-to-date log of every transient occupant with names, ages, and the dates each rental period starts and ends, available to Code Enforcement and the Police Department in case of emergency. That log is the record the City would use to test the 60-night limit.