Dothan, AL Short-Term Rentals: Repeat Violator Strikes (2026)

City Code § 114-188 gives Dothan a two-strike-plus enforcement structure for both short-term rental categories. For an owner-occupied short-term residential rental (STRR), § 114-188(a)(16) states that hosts failing to follow the section's rules will be issued a notice of violation, and that more than two notices of violation annually to any host may be received before a license is subject to revocation; each notice must specify the violation, the correction needed, and a time frame for compliance, and a host who fails to correct a violation is subject to license revocation by the city commission.

Section 114-188(b)(10) applies the identical structure to non-owner-occupied short-term commercial rentals (STCR): any host receiving more than two notices of violation annually will be subject to license revocation, following the same notice, correction period, and city commission revocation process. Because revocation is carried out by the city commission rather than a lower administrative office, a host facing a third notice of violation in a calendar year is exposed to losing the STCR special exception or STRR business license at the commission level, the same body that legislates the city's ordinances.

Both subsections also cross-reference § 114-188(a)(17) and (b)(11), which allow criminal prosecution under § 1-4 in addition to license revocation for violating any STRR or STCR condition.