El Paso County has no short-term-rental registry. Because Texas counties cannot zone unincorporated areas, there is no county STR registration. The only county filing an operator makes is the quarterly hotel occupancy tax report to the County Tax Office.
El Paso County does not maintain a short-term-rental registration program. With no zoning authority in unincorporated areas under Local Government Code Chapter 231, the Commissioners Court cannot require STR owners to register their properties with the county. The single county-level obligation is tax administration: under the county hotel/motel occupancy tax, every owner, operator, manager, or controller of a hotel or motel in El Paso County must file a quarterly report. Short-term rentals fall inside the state 'hotel' definition (Tex. Tax Code §156.001(b): 'hotel' includes a short-term rental), so an STR operator files the county HOT report and remits the tax but does not register the rental itself. Any land-use registration is purely a city matter.
Failing to file the quarterly hotel occupancy tax report or remit the county tax violates Tax Code Chapter 352, exposing the operator to the tax owed plus penalties, interest, and collection action. No separate county registration violation exists.
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