Short-term rental rules in Apache Junction, AZ

What Apache Junction asks of you

• The code supplement, which includes Ordinance 1573 of December 16, 2025, sets up no permit and no registry for short-term rentals.^[3]

• None of the ordinances adopted between November 18, 2025 and May 19, 2026 concerns rentals.^[4]

• The city tax code levies a tax on hotels. Its definition of a hotel takes in a tourist home or house that lodges transients.^[5]

• A separate section of that tax code adds a further levy on lodging furnished to transients.^[5]

• Taxable business activity calls for a privilege tax license. No business license is issued until the zoning administrator verifies the location.^[6]

• A privilege tax license holder doing taxable business in the city must hold a city business license as well.^[7]

• Licenses are normally displayed at the place of business. That display duty does not apply to someone solely renting real property.^[7]

• The basic business license is $50, and each renewal is another $50. A duplicate or replacement license costs $25.^[8]

• An accessory dwelling unit needs an administrative use permit before it is built. The code lets it operate as a separate long-term rental.^[9]

What Arizona asks wherever you host

These rules apply at this address whatever the city decides.

• Arizona cities may not ban short-term rentals. A restriction by classification, use or occupancy is allowed only where the statute lists it.^[1]

• A city permit fee is capped at $250, or at the city's actual cost of issuing it if that is lower. The application may ask for six things only.^[1]

• A city may make you notify the adjacent, opposite and diagonally opposite properties before the first booking. It may also require the permit number on every advertisement.^[1]

• Stays shorter than thirty consecutive days are taxed under the state's transient lodging classification. Longer stays fall outside it.^[2]