Oneida, NY Short-Term Rentals: Occupancy Limits (2026)

G(2)(c), added December 6, 2022 by Local Law No. 11-2022, ties short-term rental occupancy directly to bedroom count: a unit cannot be rented for more people than two times its number of legal bedrooms. The section then sets the room-by-room math Code Enforcement uses to verify that bedroom count is legal in the first place. No more than four occupants may sleep in a single sleeping room, and that room needs at least 100 square feet of floor space for one occupant plus 50 additional square feet and 400 cubic feet of air space for each additional occupant.

A furnished apartment needs at least 150 square feet for one occupant plus 100 additional square feet for each additional occupant, again with 400 cubic feet of air per occupant. The same room cannot be used by different people for sleeping in the same 24-hour period, each sleeping room needs a window equal to at least 10% of its floor area that opens to outside air, and a basement room only qualifies if at least half its height is above ground level. These occupancy standards sit inside the same operating-permit regime that covers parking, smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and fire separation, so overfilling a rental risks the same order-to-remedy and revocation process that covers any other short-term rental violation.