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Short-term rental rules in Conroe, TX
How Conroe 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.
- City levies a 7% hotel occupancy tax whose 'hotel' definition reaches tourist homes and any building where rooms are furnished (no room floor)
- No STR-specific ordinance, permit or registration anywhere in the code
- No zoning code: the Land Development Regulations hold no use districts or use table
- No cap, no residency requirement
Based on: Code of Ordinances ch. 62, art. II (Hotel Occupancy Tax), Secs. 62-31 and 62-32, Ord. No. 1786-07, adopted 2007-03-22.
Summary of the rule
There is levied a tax upon the occupancy of any room or space furnished by any hotel in the city where such cost of occupancy is at the rate of $2.00 or more per day. Such tax shall be equal to seven percent of the consideration paid for such room or space in such hotel or motel.
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