Arizona ARS section 11-269.17 prohibits Maricopa County from limiting short-term rentals to a host's primary residence. The county may register operators and enforce nuisance and zoning rules but cannot ban whole-home or non-owner-occupied vacation rentals.
When Senate Bill 1350 (2016) preempted local STR bans, the legislature softened the rule with HB-2672 in 2022, codified at ARS section 11-269.17 for counties. The statute lists every authority a county may exercise. Primary-residence requirements, owner-occupancy mandates, caps on number of nights rented, and bans on absentee owners are absent and therefore preempted. Maricopa County Planning issues an STR permit through Code Compliance and may revoke for repeated nuisance violations under the three-strikes rule in section 11-269.17(F). Property must still meet Title XIII zoning, ICC building code adopted by ARS title 41 chapter 16, and Maricopa County Health septic standards. Single-family residential zoning permits the use.
An operator running an STR without registering or assigning an emergency contact faces civil penalties up to fifteen hundred dollars under ARS 11-269.17(F), and three substantiated violations within a year support permit revocation.
Tempe, AZ
Tempe regulates industrial noise through Chapter 20 (Noise) of the City Code and the Zoning and Development Code. Industrial uses must not generate noise exc...
Tempe, AZ
Tempe addresses barking dogs under both the noise ordinance (Chapter 20) and animal control regulations. Dogs that bark persistently and disturb neighbors ca...
Tempe, AZ
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Tempe, AZ
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Tempe, AZ
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Tempe, AZ
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