York County imposes no annual limit on the number of nights a home can be rented short-term. Any night cap is set by your borough or township zoning ordinance, not the county.
A night cap limits how many nights per year a property can operate as a short-term rental. In Pennsylvania this is a municipal zoning tool used by some boroughs and townships to keep STRs from displacing housing; it is not a county power. York County has no night cap and cannot enforce one because it does not zone dwellings. Whether your York County property faces a cap, a permitted-days limit, or no limit at all depends entirely on the municipality where it sits. Note that the 30-day threshold that separates a taxable short-term stay from a long-term lease is a tax concept, not an annual night cap.
Exceeding a municipal night cap is enforced locally through zoning citations, fines, and suspension or revocation of any STR permit.
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