Rules for booking services for short-term rentals

(a) It is unlawful for a person acting as, or on behalf of, a hosting platform to provide and collect, or receive a fee for, booking services in connection with any bed and breakfast home or transient vacation unit located within the city if such bed and breakfast home or transient vacation unit is not lawfully registered, permitted, or otherwise allowed as a bed and breakfast home or transient vacation unit pursuant to this chapter at the time the bed and breakfast home or transient vacation unit is booked. A hosting platform shall exercise reasonable care to confirm that a bed and breakfast home or transient vacation unit located within the city is lawfully registered, permitted, or otherwise allowed as a bed and breakfast home or transient vacation unit prior to providing, and collecting or receiving a fee for, booking services. (b) Hosting platforms shall not collect or receive a fee, directly or indirectly through an agent or intermediary, for facilitating or providing services ancillary to a bed and breakfast home or transient vacation unit in the city that is not lawfully registered, permitted, or otherwise allowed pursuant to this chapter, including but not limited to insurance, concierge services, catering, restaurant bookings, tours, guide services, entertainment, cleaning, property management, or maintenance of the residential property or unit. (c) Booking services provided by hosting platforms for hotel units or timeshare units must include an identifying tax map key number for the property on which the hotel unit or timeshare unit is located.