Henrico County, VA Short-Term Rentals: Repeat Violator Strikes (2026)

County Code Sec. 20-282(b) creates a strikes rule separate from the flat penalty in Sec. 20-282(a) for skipping registration outright. It reaches broader misconduct: any operator required to register under Sec. " That language sweeps in any state or local rule tied to how the property is run as a short-term rental, not just the county's own registration requirement, so a pattern of noise, parking, nuisance, or fire-code citations tied to the same rental can trigger it. Unlike Sec. 20-282(a), which lets a first-time unregistered operator cure the problem by paying a $500 penalty and completing registration, subsection (b) offers no cure once three violations on three separate occasions are counted against a specific property: the bar is on offering that property for short-term rental, full stop.

The bar applies property by property rather than to the operator's registration status generally, and it stands even where the operator holds an otherwise valid registration under Sec. 20-280, since the article draws no exception for a currently-registered property once the three-strikes threshold is reached.