Norman, OK Short-Term Rentals: Repeat Violator Strikes (2026)

NCC 20-2709 gives the City Clerk three explicit factors when a short-term rental property has a violation history: the frequency of any repeated violations, whether a violation was committed intentionally or knowingly, and any other information that demonstrates the degree to which the owner or occupant has endangered public health, safety, or welfare. Those factors only come into play if the property was the subject of City Code or State law violations in the 24 months immediately before the license application was submitted; a clean prior-24-month record keeps this section from applying at all.

The same article also lets the City Clerk deny, suspend or revoke a license for any failure to comply with the STR requirements generally, separate from the repeat-violation test, and NCC 20-2704(h) backs that up by making a violation of any City Code or State law provision grounds to deny, suspend or revoke, while NCC 20-2708 repeats the same standard for renewals. An owner who has been denied, suspended or revoked cannot simply reapply: NCC 20-2709 requires that a new application comply with NCC 36-561, the zoning code's separate short-term rental reapplication conditions, before the City Clerk will consider it.

Because the strikes are evaluated at every stage, application, issuance, and renewal, a licensee with a pattern of code violations faces a materially higher bar than a first-time applicant with a clean record.