No Alabama statute and no Madison County ordinance cap short-term rental occupancy. 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 fixed by a single statute or a county STR rule in unincorporated Madison County. The county zones land use but sets no per-bedroom occupancy cap for rentals, so a host in Hazel Green, Meridianville, or Harvest faces no fixed number. 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 caps. The City of Madison sets 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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