Berks County sets no countywide occupancy cap for short-term rentals. Maximum guest counts come from your municipality's zoning or STR ordinance and from the property maintenance code's habitable-space standards, not from the county.
Because Pennsylvania land use is municipal under the Municipalities Planning Code (53 P.S. §10101), any hard guest limit for a short-term rental is set by your city or township, often expressed as a maximum number of occupants or a per-bedroom cap. Municipalities that adopt the International Property Maintenance Code also apply minimum-square-footage-per-occupant standards to habitable rooms. Berks County itself imposes no occupancy number on private dwellings. Check your specific municipality's STR permit terms — where one exists — for the exact guest cap that applies to your rental.
Exceeding a municipally set occupancy limit is a local code or zoning violation with fines set by that municipality; the county assesses no occupancy penalty.
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