Are there any exemptions from the Rental Registration?
Yes, the following are exempt from rental property registration:
1) Transient occupancy in a hotel, motel, inn, bed and breakfast, or other similar facility
2) Group homes, community living arrangements, or foster homes
3) Hospitals, nursing homes, congregate care facilities, assisted living facilities, extended medical care facilities, or other similar facilities
4) Homeless shelters
5) Public housing owned by a governmental agency, and any housing owned or controlled by the Charleston-Kanawha Housing Authority
6) On-campus residential facilities owned, operated, or managed by the University of Charleston or other accredited college or university
7) Single-family dwellings that a relative of the owner occupies and no net income is earned by the owner
8) Residential facilities owned, operated, or managed by or for the benefit of a hospital, or by or for the benefit of any affiliate or supporting organization of a hospital, providing housing exclusively for students, trainees, interns or residents in medical, nursing, medical technologist or allied health care fields