Clarkstown, NY Short-Term Rentals: Short-Term Rental Permits (2026)

Article X, added in 2020 and amended in 2022, states its purpose in § 157-71 as preventing "unregulated tourist or transient-oriented uses" in single-family, two-family and multifamily dwellings and residential neighborhoods. Section 157-73(A) makes it unlawful for anyone in a residential district to rent, license or offer to rent living accommodations or a swimming pool for monetary compensation for fewer than 29 consecutive nights unless the property is lawfully licensed or permitted for that use under the Zoning Code; Subsection (B) separately bars any occupant from using or residing in such accommodations under a short-term arrangement.

A lease clause purporting to waive this prohibition is void under Subsection (C), and a renter of a violating property is deemed an accessory to the offense under Subsection (E). Section 157-75 confirms the ban covers all single-family, two-family and multifamily dwellings and swimming pools townwide, and exempts only a commercial hotel, motel or bed-and-breakfast that is lawfully licensed and regulated as such; § 157-74 carves out a narrow post-closing possession exception tied to a same-day or within-five-days deed filing. Crucially for anyone holding an old permit, § 157-78 lets a short-term rental permit issued under the Town's earlier local law run for only two years from issuance; after that it cannot be renewed, and continuing to rent short-term afterward violates § 157-73. Enforcement runs through the Building Inspector, Code Enforcement Officer or Fire Inspector, with prosecution in Justice Court under § 157-77.