Short-term rental permit rules in Pinal County, AZ — also called Airbnb permits, vacation rental licenses, or STR registration — list the application steps, fees, and operating requirements for hosting.
Arizona bars Pinal County from banning short-term rentals. The county may require a local permit or license, but the fee is capped at actual cost or $250, whichever is less. Every host must hold a state TPT license.
A.R.S. 11-269.17 preempts local STR bans: a county may not prohibit vacation or short-term rentals, nor restrict them by classification, use or occupancy except as the statute allows. Pinal County may require a local permit/license, emergency-contact info, and reasonable health, safety and fire/building-code compliance. In practice Pinal imposes no separate county permit beyond the mandatory Arizona Department of Revenue transaction-privilege-tax (TPT) license and notifying the Assessor. Incorporated cities (Casa Grande, Maricopa, Apache Junction, Florence) set their own STR rules within the same state preemption.
Operating without the required state TPT license draws penalties of $250 for a first offense and $1,000 for later offenses; a county may charge a permit fee no greater than actual cost or $250.
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