BANGOR DAILY NEWS • January 13, 2026
Owners of short-term rentals, single-family residential homes or fee-based residential campsites operating in the state’s unorganized territories must now notify the Maine Land Use Planning Commission of the rental. The commission’s new rule went into effect on Jan. 12. Maine’s unorganized area includes parts of northernmost Aroostook County to the New Hampshire border, with 429 townships that do not lie within municipal bounds. In recent years, the number of short-term rentals in the unorganized territory have been increasing, as have the number of complaints related to the rentals, according to the LUPC.