Legal Documents of Mountain City
Code of Mountain City
Title 20 Miscellaneous
Chapter 2 Short-Term Rental Units
20-206 : Permit approval, transferability, conditions, renewal and revocation.
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Permit approval. The permit application, if approved, shall be issued for a specific site location and/or address of the proposed short-term rental unit or grandfathered short-term rental unit provided in the application as set forth in this chapter of the town code.
Upon receipt of a short-term rental unit permit number, the applicant must display said number on any materials or platforms used to advertise the short-term rental unit.
- Grant or denial of application. Review of an application shall be conducted in accordance with due process principles and shall be granted unless the applicant fails to meet the conditions and requirements of this chapter, or otherwise fails to demonstrate compliance with generally applicable local ordinances, state or federal law. Any false statements or information provided in the application are grounds for revocation, suspension and/or imposition of penalties, including denial of future applications. The decision of the mayor as to whether to issue, deny or revoke any permit shall be final, reviewable only by application for writ of certiorari to the Chancery Court of Johnson County, Tennessee as provided in Tennessee Code Annotated.
- Transferability. The certificate is non-transferable to another site, property, location or owner. Grandfathered short-term rental unit permits are subject to additional transferability restrictions as provided in Tennessee Code Annotated, § 13-7-601, et seq., as now enacted or hereafter amended.
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Revocation. The town reserves the right to suspend, revoke and/or modify any permit as restrictions and/or conditions imposed as a granted short-term rental unit at any time upon notice to the address of record for the short-term rental unit and after a public hearing. Once the property has three (3) documented town code and/or other violations of any generally applicable state laws or breaches of the peace within any running twelve (12) month period and/or based upon unreasonable interference with the use and enjoyment of adjoining or other nearby properties. Such violations shall be evidenced by a finding of guilt or fault or unreasonable interference with the use and enjoyment of nearby properties, by a court or an administrative officer or other body designated by the city commission.
A short-term rental unit permit which is revoked shall prevent its permit holder and/or any owner of or agent for the specific property from applying for a new permit for a short-term rental unit permit for a period of one (1) year from date of revocation.
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Suspension of permit. The mayor may suspend a previously issued permit in the event that a permittee is found to be noncompliant with any of the terms, conditions or requirements of this ordinance. Any permit which is suspended for administrative noncompliance with permitting requirements may be, upon payment of a fifty dollar ($50.00) reinstatement and inspection fee, be
reinstated upon the permittee demonstrating, to the satisfaction of the mayor, that the noncompliance issue(s) which resulted in suspension of the permit have been resolved.
- No property shall be operated as a short-term rental unit which its permit is suspended and/or if its permit has been revoked and unless and until a valid short-term rental unit permit shall be subsequently issued by the mayor.
- As per the provisions of Tennessee Code Annotated, § 13-7-601, certain limited provisions of this subsection may not be applicable or wholly applicable to "grandfathered short-term rental units." (Ord. #2006, July 2024)