Port Aransas, TX short-term rental registration

What Port Aransas asks of you

• Registration records the operator's name, address, email and telephone number, and the name, address, email and twenty-four-hour telephone number of a designated local contact person.^[3]

• That local contact must be available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, and able to respond in person within one hour to complaints about the condition or operation of the property or the conduct of its occupants.^[3]

• The registration also states the property's mailing and physical address and the number of sleeping rooms with the occupancy limit that applies.^[3]

• The registration expires on December 31 each year and the fee is not pro-rated, so a December registration costs the same as a January one.^[3]

• You also register with the finance department for the hotel and motel tax, which the city treats as part of the same process.^[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]