Unincorporated Knox County sets no short-term-rental-specific occupancy limit. There is no county cap on guests per STR. General building and fire codes govern maximum occupancy; the City of Knoxville sets its own STR occupancy rules.
Knox County has no short-term rental ordinance and therefore no STR-specific maximum-occupancy rule for the unincorporated area. Practical occupancy limits come from the adopted building and fire codes (bedroom count, egress, and life-safety requirements) rather than an STR cap. The county's occupancy-tax return does ask operators to report the number of rooms/spaces, but that is for tax reporting, not an occupancy ceiling. Inside the City of Knoxville, the city's STR ordinance addresses occupancy separately. Always confirm septic-system capacity with the Knox County Health Department for properties on subsurface sewage.
No county STR occupancy-limit penalty exists in the unincorporated area. Building- and fire-code overcrowding violations are enforced through Codes Administration.
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Knox County does not prohibit backyard composting for households. The zoning code only regulates commercial-scale composting facilities, which are solid-wast...
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Knox County has no ordinance regulating artificial turf on residential property. Synthetic lawns are neither required nor banned; large installations should ...
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Knox County has no rule requiring native plants in home yards, but its zoning ordinance requires native shade trees in new parking lots and along streets in ...
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Knox County has no ordinance prohibiting or specially regulating residential rain barrels or rainwater collection. Tennessee does not restrict rainwater harv...
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Knox County does not impose a general ordinance restricting lawn or garden watering days or hours. Any watering limits come from your individual water utilit...
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Knox County treats vines, grass, weeds and other vegetation that reaches 12 inches or more as a presumed public nuisance on residential property. Owners must...
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