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Riverside County · checked 2026-09-13

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The rules, with their sources

Permit or licenseNo permit is required; the code has no short-term rental permit program.L117.33.050 · code text · checked 2026-09-13
Transfer when the home sellsCode silent on transfer because no STR permit exists; the transient occupancy registration certificate is issued to the operator who registers (3.20.060), so a buyer who keeps renting registers in their own name.L13.20.060 (TOT registration only) · code text · checked 2026-09-13
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In the city's own words

3.20.020“"Transient" means any person who exercises occupancy or is entitled to occupancy, by reason of concession, permit, right of access, license or other agreement, for a period of thirty consecutive calendar days or less, counting portions of calendar days as full days.” source
3.20.030“For the privilege of occupancy in any hotel, each transient is subject to, and shall pay, a tax in the amount of ten percent of the rent charged by the operator.” source
17.33.050“ADUs may not be rented for periods of less than thirty-one days.” source
17.04.200“"Transient" means a person who requests accommodations for a price, with or without meals, for a period of not more than one hundred eighty days.” source

Citation: BMC Chapter 3.20 Transient Occupancy Tax, 3.20.020, 3.20.030, 3.20.070 (Ord. 316, 1964); BMC 17.33.050 (Ord. No. 939-U, § 2, 5-13-25; Ord. No. 940, § 2, 7-8-25); BMC 17.08.010 use table; no STR chapter as of Supp. No. 24

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