The purposes of this chapter are to ensure that the quality
of short-term rentals operating within the Town is adequate for protecting
public health, safety and general welfare, including establishing
minimum standards of space for human occupancy and parking and for
an adequate level of maintenance; determine the responsibilities of
owners and property managers operating or managing these rental properties
for tourists or transient occupants, including, but not limited to,
the responsibility to expeditiously and personally respond to, stop,
mitigate, or prevent the reoccurrence of unreasonable activities on,
or conditions, uses or misuses of, these rental properties which adversely
impact or substantially annoy, disturb, threaten, harm, offend or
interfere with the residential uses, nature or values of other properties
in the neighborhoods in which these rental properties operate, or
with the comfort, health, enjoyment, security, life, health, or safety
of others, or which substantially interfere with, obstruct, or tend
to obstruct or render dangerous for passage any lane, street, road,
bridge or other public or private way used by emergency vehicles or
protective service personnel to gain access to property or a navigable
body of water to provide services, (i.e., public nuisances); protect
the character and stability of all areas, especially residential areas,
within the Town of Holland; provide minimum standards necessary for
the health and safety of persons occupying or using buildings, structures
or premises; require the provision of liability insurance in connection
with the operation of short-term rentals so that persons on these
properties, and the owners and occupants of adjacent properties, who
suffer bodily injury or property damage arising from the condition
or operation of the short-term rental, or from acts or omissions occurring
thereon, are afforded a potential source of recovery to pay such damage
claims; and provide for the administration and enforcement hereof.
Each license shall be displayed on the inside of the main entrance
door of each short-term rental.
Any person applying for an initial short-term rental license
or renewing a license pursuant to this chapter shall be subject to
the fees as established by resolution of the Town Board.
Should any portion of this chapter be declared invalid or unconstitutional
by a court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect
the validity of any other provisions of this chapter.