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Short-term rental rules in Murrells Inlet, SC
How Murrells Inlet 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 Georgetown County imposes a 3% local accommodations tax on transient (<30-day) rentals — a thin, non-STR-specific revenue layer touching STRs
- No STR-specific permit/registration process and no supply device; dwellings permitted by-right (GR §607.1)
Based on: county_transient_accommodations_tax
Summary of the rule
Unincorporated Georgetown County imposes a 3% local accommodations tax on rentals to transients (sleeping accommodations rented for fewer than 30 continuous days); adopted by County Council 1999-05-11, collection effective 1999-10-01. Revenue mechanism only; no permit or registration process.
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Monitoring Murrells Inlet · system last checked Oct 25, 2026
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