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Short-term rental rules in Venice, LA
How Venice 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.
- No STR-specific ordinance, registration, or permit process anywhere in the Plaquemines Parish Code
- Only general occupational-license / business-tax provisions touch transient lodging — no STR-specific layer
- Governing jurisdiction (Plaquemines Parish) levies a hotel/motel occupancy tax that reaches short-term-rental stays
Based on: Plaquemines Parish Code of Ordinances — no STR/vacation-rental chapter (current through Ord. 25-219)
Summary of the rule
The governing jurisdiction — Plaquemines Parish — levies a hotel/motel occupancy tax reaching transient STR stays. La. R.S. 33:4574.1.1(A)(40) authorizes a Plaquemines Parish tourist commission to levy a two percent (2%) occupancy tax on the paid occupancy of hotel rooms, motel rooms, and overnight camping facilities ('hotel' defined per R.S. 47:301(6)). Louisiana hotel/occupancy tax applies to transient rentals of under 30 days, including short-term rentals, collected/remitted via the Plaquemines Parish Sales Tax Division (parishe-file).
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