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Town Board Meeting June 11, 2026 REGULAR TOWN MEETING Colden Town Hall – 7:00 pm Page 7 abusive or obscene language or gestures in public. Quiet hours for the purpose of this Law shall mean between the hours of 10:00 PM and 8:00 AM and shall be maintained by all rental occupants and visitors at the rental property. E. Insurance - Hosts must maintain liability insurance covering bodily injury and property damage with a minimum coverage amount of $1,000,000. Proof of insurance should be submitted to the Town of Colden, along with the initial and/or annual renewal license application. Additionally, the Town of Colden should be listed with the insurance carrier such that Town of Colden is notified in writing if the policy is cancelled for any reason, including but not limited to, policy annual renewal, cancelation by the insurance carrier for any reason, policy cancelation due to non-payment of premiums, and similar fiscal and administrative reasons of any type. Section 104-8. SHORT-TERM RENTAL STANDARDS Short-Term Rentals shall comply with all NYS Building and Fire Code, and the following standards and requirements; in the case of requirements defined in multiple codes and not stated below, the most restrictive and stringent standard must be in compliance: A. There shall be one functioning smoke detector in each sleeping room, one functioning smoke detector and a carbon monoxide detector in another centrally-located room and one functioning and inspected fire extinguisher in the kitchen placed in a visible and accessible location. Detectors must be in compliance with NYS Property Maintenance Code as amended. B. All exterior doors shall be operational and passageways to such doors shall be freely accessible and unobstructed. C. Electrical systems shall be serviceable with no visible defects or unsafe conditions. D. All fireplaces, fireplace inserts or other fuel-burning heaters and furnaces shall be vented and properly installed. If installed, all fireplace, fireplace inserts or other types of fuel burning heaters (excluding furnaces) shall have proper written safe operating instructions provided by the host to any party renting the Short-Term Rental dwelling. E. Each sleeping room shall have an exterior exit that opens directly to the outside, or an emergency escape or rescue window, which meets the current State and Town Building Code requirements for an escape/egress window. F. A house number visible from the street or road shall be maintained. The position should be designed so as to be easily obvious from the roadway, so as to eliminate problems with neighboring parcels due to tenant confusion and a renting party possibly entering the wrong driveway, or laneway, when initially arriving at the Short-Term Rental’s parcel for their stay. G. The number of vehicles permitted overnight at the Short-Term Rental Property is limited to 1.5 vehicles per bedroom (rounded to the next whole number) and the vehicles must be parked in an approved parking stall/space on the property. The number of bedrooms set forth in the Town of Colden’s assessment records shall be used for the purposes of this section. Overnight on-street parking is not allowed. The available parking spaces (one space per car) shall be the limiting vehicle count to such number of spaces. On-street day parking shall not impede local residents or the public’s free entrance and exit to the neighborhood. The Town’s Zoning for an outdoor parking “automotive use area” applies to this use in all Zoning Districts. H. The maximum occupancy for each Short-Term Rental shall be two (2) people per bedroom plus two (2). For example, a Short-Term Rental with three (3) bedrooms is allowed eight (8) occupants. The number of bedrooms is determined by the NYS RPS database maintained by the Town Assessor’s Office and Erie County. I. Short-Term Rentals shall comply with all Local, State and Federal Laws and Regulations. ARTICLE IV MAINTENANCE, PROCEDURES AND FEES