New Orleans, LA Short-Term Rentals: Repeat Violator Strikes (2026)

Section 26-628(d) sets out when a short-term rental permit must be revoked, and paragraph (1)(xvi) is the repeat-violator, three-strikes rule: revocation is mandatory if a hearing officer finds by a preponderance of the evidence that 'any three separate violations of any of the following sections have occurred during a 12-month period,' listing fifteen specific owner duties from section 26-618 - insurance (a)(1), guest records (a)(2), required postings (a)(5), health-and-safety standards (a)(6), inspection cooperation (a)(9), operator availability (a)(10), tax remittance (a)(11), compliance with other laws (a)(12), and the prohibited acts covering hourly rentals (b)(9), renting to more than one party at once (b)(10), excessive noise (b)(11), structural overloading (b)(12), noise/security/sanitation plan violations (b)(13), discrimination (b)(15), and failure to keep the operator available (b)(16).

An identical three-strikes list applies to operator permits under section 26-628(d)(2), keyed to the parallel operator duties in section 26-618 and 26-620. Unlike the single-violation revocation grounds in the rest of subsection (d)(1), which the hearing officer weighs case by case, the three-strikes rule removes discretion - once three violations from the list are proven within 12 months, revocation follows automatically. Under section 26-628(f), the consequence outlives the permit holder: when a permit is revoked under this subsection, the hearing officer must order that the property itself be barred from operating as a short-term rental for five years, and that order is recorded as a charge against the immovable property, binding all current and future owners for the full five-year term.