No Sutter County-specific ordinance directly addresses short-term rental occupancy limits; the California state default applies. Habitable-occupancy standards come from State Housing Law, which adopts the Uniform Housing Code by reference.
Sutter County's only transient-lodging regulation, Code Chapter 150 (Hotel/Motel Surcharge), defines occupancy of 30 days or less solely for tax purposes and imposes no cap on the number of overnight guests. The Zoning Code definitions (Sec. 1500-27-020) contain no short-term rental use or guest-count standard. In the absence of a local rule, California's State Housing Law governs: Health and Safety Code Sec. 17922(a)(1) requires state housing standards to impose substantially the same requirements as the Uniform Housing Code, whose room-area standards (minimum superficial floor area per occupant in sleeping rooms) set the only enforceable occupancy floor for dwellings used as rentals in unincorporated Sutter County.
There is no county STR occupancy violation as such. Overcrowding that violates state housing standards can be cited as a substandard-housing condition under State Housing Law (Health and Safety Code Sec. 17920.3 et seq.) by county code enforcement or environmental health officials.
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