On August 19th, 2021 Dunsmuir City Council unanimously passed the Short Term Rental Ordinance 570. Click the buttons below to view the registration, inspection and other requirements and to register a short-term rental within City Limits.
On October 7th, 2021 City Council read the staff report on the recommended fees for the inspection and registration of short term rentals within the City of Dunsmuir. Click the link about to read about adopted fees.
Every entity doing business within City limits (including operators of short-term rentals) must have a valid business license. These are good for one year, they expire end of June each year. Click the button above to download and turn in with your fee, check payable to City of Dunsmuir. You may also email the completed application to: adminasst@ci.dunsmuir.ca.us for processing by credit card but it MUST be submitted with a Credit Card Authorization form, we are no longer taking payments over the phone. Find the fee using the chart on the 2nd page of the application. Don’t forget to add the $4 mandatory state disability fee and indicate the type of business! Your Business License will be mailed to you at the address you indicate on the form or alternatively, emailed per request.
If you are attempting to register a short-term rental as an agent/manager and you are not the legal owner of this property, please have the property owner fill out and sign the Authorization of Agent form.
Every short-term rental or lodging establishment within City Limits must register with City of Dunsmuir and collect a transient occupancy tax of 12% (10% to City + 2% to County) on behalf of their guests. Please click on the button above to download, print and fill out this “TOT Registration” form. Return to City Hall for processing with any TOT payment due. A quarterly transient occupancy tax reporting form will be sent to the owner/operator to report on each quarter’s gross receipts. For operators only doing listings on AirBnB and no other platform, conveneiently, TOT’s are paid directly to The City from AirBnb. We will still ask all operators to report quarterly revenues. TOT tax payments must be remitted quarterly. AirBnb operators: you will have an easy way to report out that you’re only listing via AirBnb. We will still ask AirBnb operators to report their quarterly gross receipts for accounting and audit purposes.
posting requirements
The following flyers will help operators with some of the “interior posting requirements” of the ordinance.