San Bernardino County, CA Short-Term Rentals: Repeat Violator Strikes (2026)

County Code § 84.28.100 gives the County six independent grounds to revoke a short-term rental permit outright, beyond the lesser remedy of suspension in § 84.28.090. A permit can be revoked if a Title 6 building or safety violation is severe enough to require immediate vacation of the property; if the conditions behind a suspension are not corrected or demonstrably changed within 60 calendar days of the suspension being upheld on appeal or made final; if the same condition or practice reoccurs within 12 months of that final suspension; if the permit was suspended twice within a rolling 24-month period under § 84.28.100(a)(4), the repeat-violator ground; if the permit was obtained through fraud or deceit; or if it was issued in error.

Which body hears the appeal depends on the underlying ground. A revocation tied to substandard building conditions under Title 6 goes to the Building Appeals Board, using the hearing format set out in § 63.0106, and that Board's decision is final within the County. A revocation for general violations, including the two-suspensions-in-24-months ground, instead goes to a County-appointed hearing officer designated under §§ 12.2701, 12.2702, 12.2703 and 12.2705, following the same notice, sworn-testimony and no-hearsay-only procedure set out in § 84.28.090(c)(2)(A) through (C) and (c)(3); that decision is also final with no further County appeal.

Once a revocation is final, § 84.28.100(c) bars the same owner from filing a new STR permit application for 12 months. Chapter 84.28 was adopted by Ordinance 4331 in 2017 and amended by Ordinances 4371 (2019) and 4439 (2022).