Boerne, TX short-term rental limits

What Boerne asks of you

• Any short-term rental in the city limits or the extra-territorial jurisdiction must be registered with and permitted by the city, through the registration and hotel occupancy tax portal that also takes the quarterly tax payments.^[3]

• The registration fee is $200 in the city limits and in the ETJ. Permits expire two years from the effective date, must be renewed within thirty days of expiry, and renewal is another $200.^[3]

• A short-term rental inside the city limits requires a safety inspection by city staff at $100, or by an outside licensed inspector at the owner's choice. One in the ETJ requires no inspection.^[3]

• The owner must provide proof of insurance with minimum liability cover of $500,000 per occurrence and $1 million in the aggregate.^[3]

• Occupancy is limited to two people per bedroom plus two additional people, one parking space per bedroom is required, street parking is allowed, and occupants may not host events.^[3]

• In areas zoned for residential use, including the Historic, Downtown and River Road overlay districts, a short-term rental cannot operate within two hundred feet of another on the same block face.^[3]

What Texas asks wherever you host

These rules apply at this address whatever the city decides.

• Texas issues no state short-term rental licence. The statewide obligation is the hotel occupancy tax, and the Comptroller applies it to houses, condominiums and apartments as well as hotels.^[1]

• The state rate is 6 percent on a room costing $15 or more each day. Local hotel taxes reach further down, to sleeping rooms costing $2 or more each day, and the local taxing authority collects them itself.^[1]

• A guest who stays thirty or more consecutive days without interruption becomes a permanent resident and is exempt. Written notice of that intention makes the exemption run from the notice date; any interruption voids it.^[2]