North Las Vegas, NV Short-Term Rentals: Occupancy Limits (2026)
Key Facts
- Per-bedroom limit
- 2 persons per bedroom
- Children exemption
- Under age 12 excluded from the count
- Absolute occupancy ceiling
- 10 persons per residential unit
- Minimum stay, non-owner-occupied
- 2 nights
- Minimum stay, owner-occupied
- 1 night
Summary
North Las Vegas caps how many guests a short-term rental can sleep. NLVMC 5.02.270(D)(2) limits occupancy to two persons per bedroom, excluding children under 12, and sets an absolute ceiling of ten people per residential unit regardless of its size or bedroom count.
D.Short-term rentals are subject to the following conditions, which must be met in order to secure and maintain a business license.1.A State business license, City business license, and the "Good Neighbor Brochure" are required to be posted in residence.2.The occupancy limit for a short-term rental is no more than two persons per bedroom, excluding children under the age of twelve (12). The maximum occupancy shall not exceed a total of ten (10) persons per residential unit.3.The minimum stay in a short-term rental is two nights for non-owner occupied and one night for an owner-occupied.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 146 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
270(D) lists the operating conditions a short-term rental must keep meeting to hold onto its business license, and subsection 2 is the occupancy rule: the occupancy limit for a short-term rental is no more than two persons per bedroom, excluding children under the age of twelve (12), and the maximum occupancy shall not exceed a total of ten (10) persons per residential unit. The two-per-bedroom formula scales with the size of the home, but the ten-person ceiling caps even a large multi-bedroom rental at ten total occupants -- a five-bedroom house, for example, could otherwise reach ten under the per-bedroom formula alone, so the flat cap mainly limits larger properties from advertising a higher headcount by counting bonus rooms, dens or sleeper sofas as extra sleeping capacity.
The same subsection D also fixes a minimum-stay floor alongside the occupancy cap: two nights for a non-owner-occupied rental and one night if the owner is present, meaning both the top end (occupancy) and bottom end (length of stay) of a booking are code-regulated, not left to the host's listing.
Violations & Fines
Advertising or hosting more guests than the two-per-bedroom/ten-person cap in NLVMC 5.02.270(D)(2) is a violation of a license condition, giving the Director grounds to summarily revoke the short-term rental license under NLVMC 5.02.440. The operator can appeal a revocation to the city council within 30 days under NLVMC 5.02.445, but continuing to operate an over-occupied rental without a valid license exposes the owner to the civil penalties in Title 8.
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