Corona, CA Short-Term Rentals: Repeat Violator Strikes (2026)

Corona Municipal Code Section 5.55.050(C) provides that, in addition to any other penalties, the owner, the owner's agent, the renter, or any other person responsible for an event at a short-term residential rental unit or a legal nonconforming short-term residential rental unit may be issued an administrative fine for a subsequent police response, applying Chapter 9.29 of the code. Chapter 9.29, "Penalties For Multiple Police Responses to Events," works on a strike system: under Section 9.29.030, when an officer first responds to a qualifying event (one triggering a Municipal Code violation or a state law violation such as Penal Code Sections 407, 415, or 416), the officer leaves a written warning rather than a citation.

A "subsequent police response" under Section 9.29.020(D) is any police response to the same location within three months of that warning, or within three months of a prior subsequent response. Section 9.29.040(A) sets the escalating fine schedule: $100 for the first subsequent response, $250 for the second, and $500 for the third and any thereafter, issued as an administrative citation to each person responsible for the event. Because Section 5.55.050(C) folds short-term rental events into this same chapter, a rental host whose guests generate repeated police calls accumulates strikes just like the host of any other unruly gathering, and the fines stack with any infraction penalty already available under Section 5.55.050(A).