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2024-06 <br />Chapter 64.37 RCW <br />SHORT-TERM RENTALS <br />Sections <br />64.37.010 <br />Definitions. <br />64.37.020 <br />Taxes. <br />64.37.030 <br />Consumer safety. <br />64.37.040 <br />Short-term rental platforms. <br />64.37.050 <br />Liability insurance. <br />RCW 64.37.010 Definitions. The definitions in this section <br />apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires <br />otherwise. <br />(1) "Contact" means the operator or.the operator's representative <br />who is the point of contact for any short-term rental guest for the <br />duration of the guest's stay in the short-term rental. <br />(2) "Department" means the department of revenue. <br />(3) "Dwelling unit" means a residential dwelling of any type, <br />including a single-family residence, apartment, condominium, <br />cooperative unit, or room, in which a person may obtain living <br />accommodations for less than thirty days, but not including duly <br />licensed bed and breakfast, inn, hotel, motel, or timeshare property. <br />(4) "Fee" means remuneration or anything of economic value that <br />is provided, promised, or donated primarily in exchange for services <br />rendered. <br />(5) "Guest" means any person or persons renting a short-term <br />rental unit. <br />(6) "Operator" or "short-term rental operator" means any person <br />who receives payment for owning or operating a dwelling unit, or <br />portion thereof, as a short-term rental unit. <br />(7) "Owner" means any person who, alone or with others, has title <br />or interest in any building, property, dwelling unit, or portion <br />thereof, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof, and <br />including any person who as agent, executor, administrator, trustee, <br />or guardian of an estate has charge, care, or control of any building, <br />dwelling unit, or portion thereof. A person whose sole interest in any <br />building, dwelling unit, or portion thereof is solely that of a lessee <br />under a lease agreement is not considered an owner. <br />(8) "Person" has the same meaning as provided in RCW 82.04.030. <br />(9)(a) "Short-term rental" means a lodging use, that is not a <br />hotel or motel or bed and breakfast, in which a dwelling unit, or <br />portion thereof, that is offered or provided to a guest by a short- <br />term rental operator for a fee for fewer than thirty consecutive <br />nights. <br />(b) "Short-term rental" does not include any of the following: <br />(i) A dwelling unit that is occupied by the owner for at least <br />six months during the calendar year and in which fewer than three <br />rooms are rented at any time; <br />(ii) A dwelling unit, or portion thereof, that is used by the <br />same person for thirty or more consecutive nights; or <br />(iii) A dwelling unit, or portion thereof, that is operated by an <br />organization or government entity that is registered as a charitable <br />organization with the secretary of state, state of Washington, or is <br />classified by the federal internal revenue service as a public charity <br />or a private foundation, and provides temporary housing to individuals <br />Certified on 9/1/2023 Combined Chapter 64.37 RCW Page 1 <br />