There is no county STR registry. Inside the City of Canton, a short-term rental is a non-owner-occupied residential property and must be registered every year with the Chief Building Official under Codified Ordinance 1351.03, with an interior inspection for first-time registrations.
Canton treats rentals, including short-term rentals, as non-owner-occupied residential use. Under the Property Maintenance Code the owner must register the property yearly before March 1, or within 30 days of buying it. Newly registered properties get an interior code inspection before they can be rented. Other Stark municipalities and townships set their own rules (North Canton, for example, runs a separate rental-registration program), so the exact steps depend on where the home sits. The county government itself keeps no short-term-rental register.
Failure to register a non-owner-occupied property by the deadline results in a fine equal to double the registration fee per unit, plus the registration fee per unit, under Canton's Property Maintenance Code.
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