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Short-term rental rules in Point Clear, AL
How Point Clear regulates short-term rentals: the rules that apply, their sources, and pending changes.
Short-term rentals here are subject to registration, a lodging tax, or a small number of operating rules.
- Governing jurisdiction (Baldwin County) levies a lodging/transient-occupancy tax reaching STR stays in unincorporated Point Clear
- Alabama state lodgings tax (4%) applies to transient stays under 180 days
- Thin, non-STR-specific layer: a tax device touches STRs but there is NO STR-specific licensing/registration process
- Baldwin County zoning permits single-family dwellings by right in residential/rural districts; no STR supply device
- No minimum-stay, primary-residence, host-present, cap, or residential-zone STR exclusion
- Point Clear is an unincorporated CDP with no municipal government of its own
Based on: No STR-specific local ordinance; short-term rental permitted as a residential use
Summary of the rule
Baldwin County levies a lodging (transient-occupancy) tax on the renting or furnishing of rooms, lodgings, or accommodations to transients, authorized by Code of Alabama 1975, §45-2-243.20 through 45-2-243.30 and administered by the Alabama Department of Revenue. Consistent with the state lodgings-tax base, the tax applies to accommodations furnished to transients except for periods of 180 continuous days or more. Because Point Clear is in unincorporated Baldwin County, short-term-rental stays there are within the county's (and the state's) lodging-tax jurisdiction. This is a thin, non-STR-specific tax layer touching STRs; there is NO STR-specific licensing/registration process and NO supply device.
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