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--- version:LD 1181 HP 786+++ version:(document, no version)@@ -1,36 +1,10 @@-Printed on recycled paper+Approved: 05/20/25+LD 1181 LR 2241(02)+No fiscal impact132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE-FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025-Legislative Document No. 1181-H.P. 786 House of Representatives, March 20, 2025-An Act Regarding the Designation of Short-term Rental Units as-Commercial or Residential in Use-Reference to the Committee on Housing and Economic Development suggested and-ordered printed.-ROBERT B. HUNT-Clerk-Presented by Representative GERE of Kennebunkport.-Cosponsored by Representatives: DHALAC of South Portland, MALON of Biddeford,-Senators: BENNETT of Oxford, CURRY of Waldo.--Page 1 - 132LR2241(01)-1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:-2Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §4364-C, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 2021, c. 672, §7, is-3 amended to read:-42. Municipalities may regulate short-term rentals. A municipality may establish-5 and enforce regulations regarding short-term rental units in order to achieve the statewide-6 or regional housing production goal, including regulations requiring the municipal assessor-7 to assign a land use code to a short-term rental unit that designates the short-term rental-8 unit as commercial in use or residential in use. For the purposes of this subsection, "short--9 term rental unit" means living quarters offered for rental through a transient rental platform-10 as defined by Title 36, section 1752, subsection 20‑C. For purposes of this subsection,-11 "commercial in use" means a short-term rental unit that is not claimed as the primary-12 residence of the owner. For purposes of this subsection, "residential in use" means a-13 short-term rental unit that is claimed as the primary residence of the owner.-14SUMMARY-15 This bill clarifies that a municipality may require the municipal assessor to assign a-16 land use code to a short-term rental unit that designates the short-term rental unit as-17 commercial in use or residential in use.-15-16-17+An Act Regarding the Designation of Short-term Rental Units as Commercial or Residential in Use+Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment " "+Committee: Housing and Economic Development+Fiscal Note Required: No+Fiscal Note+LR2241(02) - Fiscal Note - Page 1 of 1
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