Lawrence, KS Short-Term Rentals: Repeat Violator Strikes (2026)

' Once a person accumulates more than three such revocations, § 6-1370 brands them a habitual violator, and that status is permanent and citywide: it bars the person from operating 'any property within the city' as a short-term rental, not just the specific unit that was revoked. The habitual-violator bar also reaches back into the initial application stage: § 6-1357(a)(3) lists habitual-violator status as an independent ground for the code official to deny a brand-new short-term rental license application, separate from incompleteness or fraud. Every denial issued under § 6-1370, whether for a renewal or a first-time application, must be accompanied by a formal notice of denial, and § 6-1367 gives the applicant 14 days from that notice to file a written appeal with the department of planning and development services, which goes to the building code board of appeals for a public hearing where the applicant must show the denial was erroneous or the penalty excessive.