Hanover County, VA Short-Term Rentals: Repeat Violator Strikes (2026)

1(2)(k). Registration requires the operator's full name, the address of each rental property, and, for lessees or sublessees, an attestation that the property owner has granted permission to use the unit as a short-term rental. Certain state-licensed real estate professionals, hotels, motels, campgrounds, and Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act registrants are exempt from the registry itself, but not from the underlying operating rules. An operator who fails to register is subject to a civil penalty of up to $500 per violation and cannot legally continue offering the property until the penalty is paid and the registration completed.

1(2)(k)(5) creates a separate repeat-violator rule: an operator may be prohibited from offering a specific property for short-term rental anywhere in the county once that property racks up more than three violations of applicable state and local short-term rental laws, ordinances, and regulations. The bar attaches to the property and the operator's use of it, not to a single infraction, so the county tracks a pattern before pulling a listing. , and a requirement to post smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors and emergency shut-off instructions. Violations of any of these operating conditions count toward the three-strike threshold.