Clifton, NJ Short-Term Rentals: Repeat Violator Strikes (2026)

Section 378A-6G gives the City Manager or a designee discretionary authority to revoke a short-term rental permit if the STRP is the subject of two or more substantiated civil and/or criminal complaints. Once revoked on this basis, the property may not be the subject of a new STRP permit application for one year following the date of revocation. This complaint-based revocation stands alongside several related grounds: § 378A-6J separately allows revocation after three substantiated complaints specifically about excessive vehicles from transient occupants, and § 378A-3G provides that any permit revoked or suspended for any reason resets the property to first-time registrant status, requiring a new application and a new $500 registration fee before the owner can seek reinstatement after the one-year bar expires.

Section 378A-6C ties day-to-day complaint exposure to occupant conduct: transient occupants who violate Clifton's noise or nuisance ordinances subject themselves, the owner, the responsible party and the rental agent to fines and to the same suspension-or-revocation risk. Section 378A-6F requires the owner, agent or responsible party to be reachable 24/7 and to respond within two hours to nuisance complaints from police, code enforcement or neighbors, a response duty aimed at heading off the second substantiated complaint before it triggers revocation under § 378A-6G.