No Alabama statute and no Mobile County ordinance cap short-term rental occupancy. In unincorporated areas the practical ceiling is the property's septic system, sized under Alabama Department of Public Health rules, plus any HOA limit.
Guest-count limits for rentals are not set by county or a single statute in unincorporated Mobile County. The county cannot zone occupancy, so a host in Theodore, Grand Bay, or Irvington faces no fixed cap. The hard limit is sanitation: properties off public sewer run on onsite septic systems permitted by the Alabama Department of Public Health and sized for a set number of bedrooms, and overloading that design violates the health code. Deed-restricted subdivisions may add their own occupancy caps. Cities that license STRs, like Mobile, set per-bedroom limits under Ala. Code §11-45-1.
No county occupancy fine exists. Overloading an ADPH-permitted septic system draws a Health Department order and possible penalties; HOA covenants impose their own limits.
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