Prince George's County, MD Short-Term Rentals: Repeat Violator Strikes (2026)

County Code Sec. 5-174(i) defines a short-term rental 'Nuisance' three ways: a knowingly created or maintained condition that is a code violation significantly affecting neighbors, diminishing property values, or obstructing others' use of their property; a property where the occupant has been convicted under Criminal Law Article Sec. 10-201 or 10-202 for conduct at the address; or, most commonly invoked, a property to which police or other law enforcement agencies have responded to complaints or calls for service three or more times within any 30-day period.

Once that three-call threshold is hit, Sec. 07(d) lets DPIE immediately issue a violation notice or administrative citation, or suspend or revoke a short-term rental license, without first running through the standard notice-and-cure process used for other license violations. The same enforcement section extends the Department's reach to noise, traffic, and physical-activity complaints tied to the rental, and Sec. 07(e) adds a separate immediate-revocation trigger whenever a Building Code stop-work or stop-use order has been issued for the address. Sec. 07(h) backs the license action with a civil fine of not less than $1,000 per violation, on top of the suspension or revocation itself, and DPIE must notify the host and every hosting platform that lists the property once a license is pulled, under Sec.

07(g). A host who loses a license this way can appeal to the Administrative Hearing Unit within ten calendar days under Sec. 08(a), but the appeal does not automatically restore the ability to keep operating while it is pending.