Peoria, AZ Short-Term Rentals: Repeat Violator Strikes (2026)

Peoria's short-term rental ordinance treats repeated violations as a ladder of civil penalties rather than a flat fine. Under City Code § 11-159, the City may impose escalating civil sanctions against a vacation rental owner for verified violations of any provision in the vacation rental chapter (Sections 11-148 through 11-161) tied to the same rental property within the same rolling twelve-month period. The first violation draws a civil penalty of up to $500 or an amount equal to one night's advertised rent, whichever is greater.

A second violation in that same twelve-month window raises the ceiling to $1,000 or two nights' rent, whichever is greater. A third violation, and every one after it, tops out at $3,500 or three nights' rent, whichever is greater. If several violations stem from a single response to one incident at the rental, the code treats them as one violation for penalty-counting purposes, so the strike count tracks incidents, not the number of code sections cited on a single visit. Section 11-159(3) adds a separate mandatory-shutdown rule: an unpermitted vacation rental that does not apply within thirty days of the City opening its application process must cease operating immediately, and an owner who still has not applied thirty days after written notice of the failure faces a civil penalty of up to $1,000 per month on top of any other fines.

These civil penalties run alongside, not instead of, the permit-suspension track in Section 11-158, and remedies under the chapter are expressly cumulative under Section 11-159(1).