Short-term rentals in the City of Beloit are subject to the general public-peace standards in Chapter 15 (Public Peace and Good Order) of the Beloit Municipal Code, which prohibits loud, disturbing or unnecessary noise audible from neighboring residences. The state-level right-to-rent law (Wis. Stat. § 66.1014) preserves the city's authority to enforce generally applicable nuisance and noise ordinances against tourist rooming houses.
Beloit does not maintain a stand-alone short-term rental noise ordinance. STR operators are instead bound by Chapter 15 of the Beloit Municipal Code (Public Peace and Good Order), which is the general nuisance and disorderly-conduct chapter cited by Beloit Police Department staff for loud-music and party complaints (the Department directs noise complaints to the non-emergency line at 608-757-2244). Wisconsin's right-to-rent statute, Wis. Stat. § 66.1014, prevents the city from banning rentals of seven consecutive days or more and limits restrictions on rentals of 7 to 29 days, but it expressly preserves the municipality's power to enforce generally applicable health, safety and nuisance ordinances, which is the legal hook for applying Chapter 15 to a tourist rooming house. The state lodging code, ATCP 72, adopted under Wis. Stat. § 66.0615 and § 97.605, additionally requires every tourist rooming house to be operated so as not to create a public nuisance. Beloit's underlying zoning enabling authority comes from Wis. Stat. § 62.23, which allows cities to regulate the use of land but is constrained by § 66.1014 in the STR context. Repeat noise complaints documented by the police can support a public-nuisance abatement action by the City Attorney and may also be reported to DATCP, which administers the state TRH license under ATCP 72.
Loud, disturbing or unnecessary noise from a Beloit short-term rental is prosecuted as a Chapter 15 ordinance violation, typically as disorderly conduct or a public nuisance, with citations issued by the Beloit Police Department and forfeitures set on the city's bond schedule. Documented violations can also be reported to DATCP for action against the property's tourist rooming house license under ATCP 72.
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