Glen Burnie, MD Short-Term Rentals: Occupancy Limits (2026)

Glen Burnie is a CDP within unincorporated Anne Arundel County, so countywide STR rules apply. Title 13A (Short-Term Residential Rentals) and zoning Sec. 18-12-602 define a short-term residential rental as the use or occupancy, facilitated by a hosting platform in exchange for rent, of all or part of a dwelling unit to provide accommodations to transient guests for no more than 120 consecutive days in a calendar year. The county-level program does not publish a numeric per-bedroom or total-guest occupancy cap separate from the underlying dwelling's residential occupancy under the Anne Arundel County construction and property maintenance codes; instead, it limits the number of dwelling units a single host may register to two and limits the duration of STR use per dwelling to 120 consecutive days each year. The minimum rental period is 24 hours, which prevents nightly turnover into hotel-style short stays. Hosts must keep records of each rental for three years and disclose every hosting platform used. Operators of unhosted rentals must designate a 24-hour emergency contact available throughout the rental term so neighbors and the county can reach a responsible person about overcrowding or nuisance complaints. Practical occupancy is therefore driven by the dwelling's bedroom count, septic or sewer capacity, the underlying zoning district's residential standards, and any private HOA or covenant rules rather than a separate STR headcount cap.