Revere, MA Short-Term Rentals: Night Caps (2026)
Key Facts
- Annual cap
- Six cumulative months per calendar year
- Stay length
- Each rental period must run under 30 days
- Registry expires
- December 31 of the year issued
- Penalty
- $490 per violation per day
- Adopted
- C.O. 21-211 (2021), amended C.O. 24-176 (2024)
Summary
Revere caps every short-term rental at six months total per calendar year. Municipal Code § 8.09.020 defines a short-term rental as a stay of fewer than thirty days that, added up across the year, cannot exceed a cumulative total of six months for that unit.
"Short-term rental."The rental for a fee of a residential unit, reserved in advance, for periodic residential occupancy for a single rental period of fewer than thirty days and not exceeding in any case a cumulative total of six months of rental within a calendar year.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4804778; v14 updated 2026-05-04).
Full Breakdown
O. 24-176 in 2024, sets Revere's short-term rental scheme around a hard annual ceiling. 020 defines short-term rental as the rental for a fee of a residential unit, reserved in advance, for a single rental period of fewer than thirty days, and expressly caps the total at not exceeding in any case a cumulative total of six months of rental within a calendar year. That cap runs per unit, not per booking: an operator can list a unit for many separate short stays across the year, but once the combined nights push past six months, further short-term rental of that unit in the same calendar year is not permitted under the chapter.
040(C), which lists an approved unit in the short-term rental registry only through December 31 of the year the certificate of inspection is issued, forcing an annual re-registration cycle that lines up with the calendar-year cap. 080, the City can fine the operator, issue a cease-and-desist order, and seek a court injunction to stop the use.
Violations & Fines
Operating a short-term rental beyond what the registry and six-month annual definition permit is enforced under § 8.09.080: the City can fine the operator four hundred ninety dollars per violation per day, with each day of continued noncompliance counted as a separate violation, and can additionally issue a cease-and-desist order or seek a court injunction to stop the rental.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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