Revere, MA Short-Term Rentals: Repeat Violator Strikes (2026)

060 lists six categories of residential units that cannot be offered as short-term rentals at all. The repeat-violator rule sits at subsection (D): a unit becomes ineligible once it is the subject of three or more findings of violations of this chapter within a one-year period, or three or more violations of any municipal ordinance or state law or code relating to health, safety or sanitary conditions, including excessive noise, improper disposal of trash or disorderly conduct. The bar is not limited to short-term-rental-specific violations; any three qualifying municipal or state health, safety or sanitary violations in a rolling year trigger it.

The same section bars units that are not owner-adjacent or primary-residence units (A), income-restricted or affordability-covenant units (B), units a condo or homeowners association bars from subletting (C), units that carried a Section 8 tenancy or affordability restriction within the past year (E), and units whose operator is delinquent on any local tax, fee, assessment or municipal charge (F). 09, adopted by City Council Order 21-211 on August 23, 2021.