§ 447-b. Short-term rental units; regulation. 1. A short-term rental\nhost may operate a dwelling unit as a short-term rental unit provided\nsuch dwelling unit:\n (a) is registered in accordance with section four hundred\nforty-seven-c of this article;\n (b) is not used to provide single room occupancy as defined by\nsubdivision forty-four of section four of the multiple residence law and\nsubdivision sixteen of section four of the multiple dwelling law;\n (c) includes a conspicuously posted evacuation diagram identifying all\nmeans of egress from the unit and the building in which it is located;\n (d) includes a conspicuously posted list of emergency phone numbers\nfor police, fire, and poison control;\n (e) has a working fire-extinguisher;\n (f) is insured by an insurer licensed to write insurance in this state\nor procured by a duly licensed excess line broker pursuant to section\ntwo thousand one hundred eighteen of the insurance law for a minimum of\nthree hundred thousand dollars coverage for third party claims of\nproperty damage or bodily injury that arise out of the operation of a\nshort-term rental unit. Such liability insurance coverage may be\nsatisfied by insurance maintained by a booking service that provides\nequal or greater coverage if a short-term rental host lists a short-term\nrental unit with such booking service. Notwithstanding any other\nprovision of law, no insurer shall be required to provide such coverage;\n (g) is not subject to the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen\nseventy-four, the rent stabilization law of nineteen sixty-nine, the\nemergency housing rent control law, the local emergency housing rent\ncontrol act or otherwise regulated or supervised by a federal, state, or\nlocal agency pursuant to any other law or rule or an agreement with such\nfederal, state, or local agency;\n (h) is in compliance with any additional health and safety\nrequirements or any other regulatory requirements applicable to\nshort-term rental units established by any covered jurisdiction in which\nsuch short-term rental unit is located; and\n (i) is not otherwise prohibited from operating as a short-term rental\nunit by federal, state, or local law, rules, and regulations.\n 2. Short-term rental hosts shall maintain records related to guest\nstays for two years following the end of the calendar year in which an\nindividual rental stay occurred, including the date of each stay and\nnumber of guests, the cost for each stay, including an itemization of\nthe sales tax and hotel and motel occupancy tax collected, and records\nrelated to their registration as short-term rental hosts with the county\nin which the short-term rental unit is located or with the multi-county\nregistry that includes such county. Short-term rental hosts shall make\nsuch records available to local enforcement agencies for the covered\njurisdiction in which the short-term rental unit is located when\nlawfully requested.\n 3. (a) Booking services shall collect data related to all short-term\nrental unit guest stays that the booking service facilitates within the\nstate. Booking services shall maintain such data related to short-term\nrental unit guest stays that the booking service has facilitated in the\nstate for two years following the end of the calendar year in which an\nindividual rental stay occurred. The data maintained by booking services\nshall include the dates of each stay and the number of guests, the cost\nfor each stay, including an itemization of the sales tax and hotel and\nmotel occupancy tax collected, the physical address, including any unit\ndesignation, of each short-term rental unit booked, the full legal name\nof each short-term rental unit host, and each short-term rental unit's\nregistration number. Beginning ninety days after the effective date of\nthis article, and on the first day of every January, April, July, and\nOctober thereafter, the booking service shall report such data to each\ncounty within
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