Annapolis, MD Short-Term Rentals: Short-Term Rental Permits (2026)

090 of the City Code, a provision that has been amended repeatedly since it was adopted in January 2020, most recently by Ordinance O-17-25 in October 2025, so it is an actively maintained scheme rather than a dormant one. 090(B)(1) prohibits applicants from listing the property on short-term hosting platforms without first obtaining a short-term rental license. Putting the listing up before the license issues is itself the violation. 090(B)(3) requires it to identify the property owner, the property manager, any homeowner or property association, and the hosting platforms being used.

The most consequential requirement is in subsection (B)(3)(a): THE PROPERTY OWNER SHALL BE THE LICENSE HOLDER. A tenant, manager or agent cannot hold the license in their own name, which rules out the common arrangement where a long-term renter sublets short-term. 110 defines a host as any person who is the licensee of a PRIMARY RESIDENCE and offers a dwelling unit, or portion of one, for short-term rental, and defines hosting platform broadly as any manner through which a host may offer a dwelling unit.

It also defines blockface as one side of a street between two consecutive intersecting features, with the Director of Planning and Zoning resolving irregular cases, a term of that kind normally exists to support a density or concentration limit, so check how the chapter uses it before describing availability. 880. 40 as well as this chapter.