Mountain View, CA Short-Term Rentals: Short-Term Rental Permits (2026)

a requires registration before any advertising or use of a short-term rental: the host must register the dwelling unit with the City of Mountain View and obtain a valid business license, and the chapter set a hard deadline requiring all existing short-term rental hosts to register on or before July 1, 2019. b spells out what the city-approved application form must contain: the host's name and contact information, the address of the unit, the valid business license required under Chapter 18, the anticipated frequency of the rental, contact information for the local contact person required under Sec.

c, and an acknowledgement of compliance with the city code; failing to submit all required information results in denial of the registration. c requires payment of a registration fee set by council resolution and updated from time to time, and failure to pay it likewise results in denial. Registration runs on a calendar-year basis, is personal to the host and cannot be assigned or transferred, and automatically expires upon sale or transfer of the property (Sec. 7). Renewal is required annually, along with proof of a current business license and remittance of all transient occupancy tax owed, and a host who misses the December 15 renewal deadline loses the registration (Sec. 8).