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Short-term rental rules in Bandera, TX
How Bandera 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 anywhere in the code (Chapters 1-14) — no licensing or registration article and no zoning use restriction
- City itself levies a 3% Hotel Occupancy Tax reaching STR stays (Code of Ordinances § 11.04.002)
- Hotel Occupancy Tax definition is broad — includes 'tourist homes,' 'lodging houses,' and 'apartments not occupied by permanent residents' with no room-count floor, so it reaches whole-home rentals
- Place Type (form-based) zoning code does not list or restrict short-term rental as a use in any of the six place types (P1-P6)
Based on: City of Bandera Code of Ordinances, Chapter 11, Article 11.04 (Hotel Occupancy Tax), §§ 11.04.001-.007; codified via
Summary of the rule
There is hereby levied a tax upon the occupant of any room or space furnished by any hotel where such costs of occupancy are at the rate of two dollars ($2.00) or more per day, such tax to be equal to three (3) percent of the consideration paid by the occupant of such room, space or facility to such hotel exclusive of other occupancy taxes imposed by other governmental units, effective as of January 1, 1984.
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