Piscataway, NJ Short-Term Rentals: Repeat Violator Strikes (2026)

Section 15-4.a.1 sets the first strike threshold at the renewal stage: an existing short-term rental cannot renew its permit if police have been called to address complaints of any type attributable to the rental more than twice within the previous two years. Once a permit is active, § 15-7.i gives the Business Administrator or a designee authority to revoke it outright if the property is the subject of two or more substantiated civil or criminal complaints, and a revoked property may not submit a new application for one full year following the date of revocation.

Vehicle-related nuisances are tracked separately under § 15-7.l, which allows revocation once the Township receives three substantiated complaints about excessive vehicles belonging to the rental's transient occupants. These revocation powers sit alongside the renewal disqualifications in § 15-4.a: an applicant must also be current on all Township taxes, water and sewer charges, and have no open Code Enforcement violations, before any new or renewal application can even be processed. Because a revoked STRP forfeits its permit and cannot reapply for a year, and any new owner after a change in ownership must file a fresh first-time application under § 15-4.e, a documented pattern of substantiated complaints functions as the chapter's core enforcement lever against repeat problem rentals.