Mission, Canada Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a place in Mission, British Columbia and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that you're allowed to, though that permission is a lot newer than most people assume. The city's own short term rentals page records that on May 20, 2025, Council adopted amendments to Zoning Bylaw 5949-2020 to allow short-term rentals in Mission, and they're now permitted in every zone that already allows a house, a duplex, a townhouse, an apartment, a manufactured home, a coach house or a garden cottage.

The catch is who gets to do it. Mission sits in the Fraser Valley Regional District, about an hour east of Vancouver, and it's one of the British Columbia communities where the province limits short-term rentals to a host's principal residence. So the place you rent out has to be the home you actually live in, plus at most one secondary suite or accessory unit on the same lot. You're also dealing with two governments rather than one, since the city issues a home occupation business licence while the province issues a registration number that has to appear on the listing itself.

So let's walk through what it takes to do this properly: what the zoning bylaw permits in 2026, what the licence costs and when it lapses, the paperwork both governments want, the taxes that attach to a night's stay, and who to phone when your situation doesn't fit the form. Every figure below comes from the City of Mission's own bylaws and forms or from the Province of British Columbia's pages, checked in July 2026, and where something is still moving I've said so. Since the rules limit you to your own home, do run the property through BNBCalc before you spend a dollar on furniture, because a spare suite has to clear a very different bar than a whole house would.

What are Short-Term Rental (Airbnb, VRBO) Regulations in Mission, Canada?

That two-government arrangement is worth taking apart, because separating the layers explains almost everything people find confusing here.

The bottom layer is provincial. Section 14 of the Short-Term Rental Accommodations Act limits short-term rental accommodation services to the property host's principal residence plus not more than one secondary suite or other accessory dwelling unit, and the province's principal residence requirement page lists Mission by name among the communities where that applies as of June 1, 2026. The province is explicit that this is a floor rather than a ceiling: local governments may go further if they want to, and hosts have to follow local bylaws either way.

The top layer is Mission's own, and it starts with a definition: Section 102 of Zoning Bylaw 5949-2020 calls a short-term rental a business operated as a home occupation providing temporary sleeping accommodation for a charge, where the maximum length of stay for any guest is less than 90 consecutive days. Section 106(B)(3) then lists short-term rentals among the uses permitted in all zones, so long as the use conforms to Section 107.D, and that cross-reference is where the real work happens.

Section 107.D is short, but three things in it decide whether you have a business at all:

• It has to be your own home. The rental is limited to the host's principal dwelling unit and, on the same lot, either one secondary suite or one secondary detached unit. Not both, and not a second property across town.
• The building type has to be on the list. Single family dwellings, duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, infill townhouses, townhouses, apartments, coach houses, garden cottages, secondary suites and manufactured homes all qualify.
• The provincial Act still governs on top. Section 107.D(1)(c) says that despite any other provision in the bylaw, all short-term rental operations are subject to the Short-Term Rental Accommodations Act and other provincial regulations.

Because a short-term rental is classed as a home occupation, the general home occupation rules in Section 107.A come with it, and those catch people out. You have to live on the lot yourself, the use has to be entirely enclosed within a building, and in attached multi-unit residential no more than two home occupations are permitted within one dwelling unit.

Then there's the closest thing Mission has to a guest cap, which is a maximum of 10 patrons assembled at one time across all home occupations on the lot. Parking is gentler, though. Off-street parking follows Section 109, and for a home occupation that means one space per non-resident employee rather than anything per guest, so a host with no staff adds no parking obligation at all.

One item in that section deserves a phone call rather than an assumption. Table 107.1 caps the floor space used by all home occupations per dwelling unit at 56.0 sq m (603 sq ft) for lots inside the Urban Growth Boundary, rising to 140.0 sq m and 186.0 sq m on larger rural and suburban parcels.

Read literally, that sits awkwardly over a host who lists the whole house while away on holiday, because the bylaw doesn't carve short-term rentals out of the cap. I couldn't find any city guidance resolving it either. So make sure you ask business licensing how they apply Table 107.1 to your unit before you build a calendar around whole-home stays.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in Mission

Once you've read Section 107.D properly, the shape of the opportunity here becomes obvious, and unfortunately for anyone still hoping to buy a rental purely for nightly stays, it isn't that. There's no permit that unlocks a second unit, no corporate structure that gets around the principal residence test, and no fee you can pay to be treated differently. What Mission offers is a room, a suite or a coach house attached to the place you already live.

That framing matters more here than it might elsewhere, because Mission is a community under real housing pressure. The city's provincial housing targets page explains that under small-scale multi-unit housing rules the city must now allow up to four housing units on most single family properties inside the Urban Growth Boundary, against a five-year provincial target of 1,798 net new homes.

So you may well be permitted to build four units on your lot, and you'll still only be permitted to short-term rent two of them at the outside, being your own home and one accessory unit.

Those two policies pull in opposite directions on purpose.

The market that came out of all this is small, and for once you can count it exactly. The city publishes its active business licences as open data, and going through the March 2026 active licence list there are 70 licences carrying a short-term rental classification out of 1,845 active licences citywide. Fifty-two of those 70 files were opened during 2025, which is what a brand-new regulatory regime looks like in a spreadsheet. Do treat the year as indicative rather than exact, mind you, since the column records when the business file was opened rather than when the current licence year began.

Two more things will decide whether you can start at all, and both sit outside the bylaw. If you're in a strata or you rent, the city's short-term rental declaration form makes you initial a statement confirming you've obtained the necessary approval from your strata council or property owner, so a bylaw or a lease that bans short-term rentals ends the conversation before the city ever sees your file. And the same form makes you accept responsibility for any enforcement fines arising from guest behaviour, including disturbances from unreasonable noise, which puts the neighbour relationship squarely on you.

Hosts weighing Mission against the rest of the valley usually end up comparing it with its neighbours, and the picture differs in ways worth reading up on. The Abbotsford regulation guide covers the larger city immediately south, the Chilliwack guide covers the eastern end of the valley, and the Maple Ridge guide covers the Metro Vancouver municipality directly across the Fraser River.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirements in Mission

Assuming your home clears all of that and you're able to move forward, there are still two separate applications ahead of you, and they run in a fixed order. The city licence comes first, then the provincial registration, because the province asks for your local business licence as a supporting document.

Mission licences a short-term rental as a home occupation. Schedule "A" of Business Licence Bylaw 3964-2007 sets the fee for the listed classifications, home occupations included, at $158.00 annually, a figure last amended by Bylaw 6382-2025 on December 15, 2025 and confirmed on the city's business licences page as the current fee as of July 2026. Section 6.2 of that bylaw terminates every licence on December 31 of the year it was issued, and Section 6.3 halves the fee for anyone who first becomes liable after September 30, which is a small mercy if you're starting in the autumn.

The renewal deadline is what catches people out.

Section 9.2 adds a late payment fee of 25% of the annual fee, capped at $250, once you carry on past February 1 without renewing, and Section 9.3 raises that to 50%, capped at $500, past March 1. Keep in mind that the city mails courtesy renewal notices for home occupations starting in November, so the reminder arrives well before the deadline does.

A handful of ongoing conditions ride along with the licence:

• Post it where guests can see it. Section 8.1 requires the licence to be kept posted in a conspicuous place on the business premises, and the city's own host information sheet repeats it.
• A move or a sale means a new application. Sections 7.1 and 7.2 require a fresh application on a change of ownership or a change of location. A licence doesn't travel with the house.
• It can be suspended or cancelled. Section 4.1(e) lets the Licence Inspector suspend or cancel for reasonable cause, including where the premises stop complying with a bylaw regulating building, land use, health, fire, environmental or business matters. Section 4.2 then gives you the right to have the decision reconsidered by Council.

Once the city licence is issued, there's still the province to get through. The host registration page charges $100 a year plus a $1.50 service fee where the short-term rental is in the home you live in, and $450 where it isn't, which in Mission means the secondary suite or accessory unit on your lot. Fees aren't refunded if an application is denied.

Registration under section 4.3 of the Short-Term Rental Accommodations Regulation then runs for one year, with the renewal window opening 40 days before expiry. Every unit needs its own registration, though a single unit with several listings needs only one.

Then comes the part that makes all of it enforceable. Both numbers, your provincial registration number and your Mission business licence number, have to appear on every listing, and the province requires platforms to validate the registration number against registry data. Watch out for the sequencing here: the province wants your business licence during registration, so applying in the other order costs you weeks.

Non-compliance is priced at several levels, and they stack rather than substitute. Schedule 3 of Mission's Bylaw Notice Enforcement Bylaw 5700-2018 sets the penalty for having no business licence at $250, reduced to $175 on early payment and raised to $325 on late payment, while Schedule 5 sets an unauthorized use ticket under the zoning bylaw at $450 on the same sliding basis of $350 or $500.

Those are the tickets. Behind them both bylaws carry a prosecution route with a fine of up to $10,000 on conviction, and each day counts as a separate offence. Then, above all of it, sits the province. Schedule 4 of the provincial regulation sets administrative penalty maximums for a supplier host who fails to register at $5,000 for a first contravention, $7,500 for a second and $10,000 for a third, and section 27(2) of the Act lets the director impose a separate penalty for every day a contravention continues.

Required Documents for Mission Short-Term Rentals

Since two authorities are each running their own file on you, the document list then splits the same way, and neither side accepts the other's paperwork as a substitute.

Mission asks for two forms. The first is the home occupation application form. It takes the business name, address and phone, the owner's details and your driver's licence number, then hands you a questionnaire about how many people will visit per day and per week, deliveries, employees, off-street parking, storage, and the total floor area you're giving over to the business. That form also warns that your application goes to several city departments for approval, and possibly to the Mission RCMP and Fraser Health, so a thin answer on the questionnaire tends to come back as a question rather than a licence.

The second form is the short-term rental declaration, which is a set of promises rather than a data collection. You initial six statements:

• You're the permanent resident of the dwelling and directly responsible for running the short-term rental.
• The rental area complies with all municipal, provincial and federal fire and life safety regulations.
• You'll ensure guests respect the community, and you accept responsibility for enforcement fines including noise disturbances.
• Accommodation is limited to your principal residence, plus one secondary suite or accessory dwelling unit.
• You've obtained any necessary strata council or property owner approval.
• You understand that false or misleading information can lead to refusal, suspension or revocation of the licence.

Signing also confirms you've read Sections 107 and 106B of the zoning bylaw, and completed forms go to [email protected] or in person to 7337 Welton Street.

The province wants proof rather than promises. Registration asks for your property address and parcel identifier, bedroom count, ownership type, your name and contact details, your date of birth and your Social Insurance Number, plus your local business licence.

Then it wants documents. One has to be B.C. photo identification, meaning a driver's licence, a Services Card, a combined card or a B.C. identification card, and at least two more come from the province's supporting list. Those include a land title certificate or search, the current-year BC Assessment notice, an ICBC certificate of insurance, a home insurance summary, a property tax notice, a speculation and vacancy tax confirmation letter, a home owner grant confirmation, an affidavit, a banking statement or an official notice from a government agency. If you rent, a tenancy agreement or a notice of rent increase from the last year counts toward the two.

Two details in there trip people up more than the rest, and both are about form rather than substance. The province won't accept a screenshot or an online lookup of your BC Assessment notice, only the official one that arrived in the mail, and once you're registered, any change to the information used for registration has to reach the Registrar within 14 days. So remember to report a name change or a move when it happens rather than saving it for renewal.

Mission Short-Term Rental Taxes

With both registrations in hand and guests finally booking, there's still tax to deal with, and Mission's version of it is simpler than most Canadian cities because one layer that usually appears here doesn't.

Charge	Rate	Collected by
GST	5%	Canada Revenue Agency
PST on accommodation	8%	B.C. Ministry of Finance
Municipal and Regional District Tax	none in Mission	not applicable

That third row is the one worth sitting with. Up to 3% MRDT applies in participating areas of British Columbia, and the participating areas are named in the Designated Accommodation Area Tax Regulation. Reading both schedules of that regulation, Mission appears in neither, while Abbotsford sits at 3%, Chilliwack with Electoral Areas E and H at 3%, and Hope with Electoral Areas A, B and D at 2%.

So a guest paying $200 a night in Mission pays about $16 in PST and $10 in GST, where the same booking in Abbotsford would carry another $6 on top. That's a confirmed absence from the regulation rather than a gap in my research. It can still change, mind you, by application to Destination BC, so do check the regulation again if you're modelling a few years out.

The provincial accommodation tax page sets the PST rate at 8% on sales of short-term accommodation and, more usefully for a small host, sets out when you can skip registering for it. You don't have to register if you sell your accommodation only through an online marketplace facilitator, because Airbnb and the other platforms collect and remit on those bookings themselves.

List anywhere else as well, though, whether that's your own website or a local classified, and you must register and collect on those sales yourself. Be aware too that even where the platform collects, you stay jointly and severally liable for tax it fails to remit, so the obligation never fully leaves you.

Three exemptions on that page are worth knowing. Accommodation is exempt where the charge is $30 or less per day, or $210 or less per week. It's exempt too where your gross revenue was under $2,500 in the previous 12 months and you reasonably expect under $2,500 in the next. Both of those come with the same string attached, though, because neither applies to a unit listed on an online marketplace platform.

The remaining exemption is the useful one, since accommodation is exempt where the same person stays a continuous period of 27 days or more. Almost every Mission host lists on a platform, so the first two rarely bite, while that 27-day line is the one that quietly reshapes a calendar.

GST works differently again. The 5% applies to accommodation occupied for less than one month costing more than $20 a night, and where the host isn't GST registered the platform collects and remits it. Registration becomes mandatory once your taxable supplies pass $30,000 over four consecutive calendar quarters. My guess is that a single spare room in Mission rarely gets there, while a coach house running most of the year could.

Possible Deductions and Write-Offs

Ordinary rental expenses apportioned to the rented space are deductible in the usual way, so mortgage interest, insurance, utilities, cleaning, platform fees, supplies and repairs all come into play. Renting part of the home you live in means apportioning nearly all of it, which is fiddlier on paper than it looks on a spreadsheet.

One federal rule turns the whole licensing exercise into a tax question, and it's the reason to take the $158 seriously. Section 67.7 of the Income Tax Act denies deductions for a "non-compliant short-term rental", meaning one operated where short-term rentals aren't permitted, or one that doesn't meet all applicable registration, licensing and permit requirements. The denied share is your expenses multiplied by non-compliant days divided by total short-term rental days, and it has applied to tax years after 2023.

In plain terms, hosting in Mission without a city business licence or a provincial registration number doesn't only expose you to tickets. It can wipe out your deductions for every day you were out of compliance, and since platforms report host and property data to the CRA under Part XX of the Act, the matching is automatic.

British Columbia Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

That federal deduction rule only has teeth because British Columbia built a registry it can point at, and the provincial framework above Mission is worth understanding on its own terms.

The province's overview of the Act says it reaches accommodation offered to the public on platforms like Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com, and also on listing forums and in classified ads. It doesn't reach hotels, motels, hostels and resorts, Reserve lands, vehicles, tents, or any booking longer than 90 days. Three changes it made are the ones that rewrote the market:

• Legal non-conforming use protection ended. An operator who was grandfathered under an old zoning position no longer is, and that protection continues for other land uses but not for short-term rentals.
• Local enforcement got heavier. The maximum municipal ticketing fine rose from $1,000 to $3,000 per infraction, per day, and the maximum fine a regional district can set for a bylaw prosecution rose from $2,000 to $50,000.
• Platforms became the choke point. Platforms must validate registration numbers, must remove a listing at a local government's request where it breaches a business licence requirement, and must share listing data with the province monthly.

The registry itself came into force on May 1, 2025, and the province's April 30, 2025 bulletin sets out both the scale and the timing. More than 20,000 listings had registered by then, against an estimated 28,000 individual short-term rental listings when the legislation was introduced in 2023. Platforms had to stop advertising unregistered listings from June 2, 2025, and had to cancel future bookings from unregistered hosts from June 23, 2025. Those two dates are why a listing that quietly ignored the rules stopped earning rather than merely risking a fine.

Whether the principal residence requirement applies to you can also change, which is the one genuinely fluid part of this. A local government can ask by resolution to opt out where the community has had a rental vacancy rate of 3% or more for two consecutive years, with resolutions due by February 28 each year.

Mission is on the list as of June 1, 2026, and I've seen nothing to suggest it's seeking an exit, yet it's a February question every year, so do check the province's current list before you commit capital. Elsewhere in British Columbia the answer differs a lot, and the Merritt guide and the Hope guide both cover communities where the sums come out differently from Mission's.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in Mission

Given how much of the above can stop you before you've spent anything, the order of these steps matters more than it looks. Work through them out of sequence and you'll usually pay for something you can't use.

1. Confirm the unit is your principal residence, or the one accessory unit beside it. This is the test that ends most plans. A second property in Mission that you don't live in cannot be short-term rented, whatever else you do.
2. Check your strata bylaws or your lease. You'll be initialling a declaration that you have the necessary approval, and a strata prohibition is not something the city can waive.
3. Read Sections 106B and 107 of the zoning bylaw, and ask business licensing about Table 107.1 if you intend to list the whole dwelling rather than a room or a suite.
4. Sort out fire and life safety first. The declaration requires the rental area to comply with all municipal, provincial and federal fire and life safety regulations, and that's a statement you're signing, not a box you're ticking.
5. Apply for the home occupation business licence. Send the application form and the short-term rental declaration to [email protected], or take them to 7337 Welton Street, then pay the $158.
6. Register with the province once the licence is issued. Budget $100 plus the $1.50 service fee for your own home, $450 for the suite, and have your ID plus two supporting documents ready as PDF or JPG.
7. Put both numbers on every listing. The provincial registration number and the Mission business licence number, on every platform where the unit appears.
8. Decide your PST position. Platform-only bookings mean the facilitator collects, and anything you sell direct means registering yourself.
9. Diarise December and February. The licence expires December 31, the renewal deadline that avoids a late fee is February 1, and provincial registration renews on its own annual clock 40 days out.

Who to Contact in Mission about Short-Term Rental Regulations and Zoning?

Whichever step you get stuck on, a short list of offices covers nearly all of it, and knowing which one owns your question saves an irritating amount of time.

Licensing, applications and renewals

The Bylaws and Licensing Division at the City of Mission issues the home occupation business licence and takes the short-term rental declaration.

• Address: 7337 Welton Street, Mission, BC V2V 3X1
• Phone: 604-820-3791
• Email: [email protected]
• Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, closed statutory holidays

The city also offers a free pre-application meeting with building and licensing staff, which its business licences page recommends before you sign a lease or buy a unit. For a marginal case, that meeting is the cheapest hour you'll spend on this.

Complaints, tickets and enforcement

Bylaw Services handles complaints and issues the bylaw notices described earlier.

• Phone: 604-820-3727
• Email: [email protected]
• Fax: 604-820-3715
• Address: 7337 Welton Street, Mission, BC V2V 3X1

One detail here cuts both ways, and it starts with the city's bylaw enforcement page saying that enforcement is generally a complaint generated system, apart from imminent life safety issues. Complaints also have to be in writing, carrying the complainant's name, address and telephone number plus the exact address of the alleged offence, because the municipality will not accept anonymous ones. So nobody can report you from behind a curtain, though the flip side is that a neighbour willing to put their name to it will get an officer's attention.

Zoning and building questions

• Planning: 604-820-3748, [email protected], for questions about Sections 106B and 107, your lot's Official Community Plan designation, and whether a coach house or garden cottage is permitted where you are
• Inspection Services: 604-820-3726, [email protected], for building permits, renovations to accommodate the use, and the preliminary business licence inspection
• General inquiries: 604-820-3700, [email protected]

Provincial registry and taxes

• Short-Term Rental Registry, via ServiceBC: 1-833-828-2240 or [email protected], Monday to Friday 7:30 am to 5:00 pm, with help available in 140 languages
• PST and MRDT questions, Consumer Taxation Branch: 1-877-388-4440 toll free within Canada and the U.S., or [email protected], Monday to Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm

What Do Airbnb Hosts in Mission on Reddit and Bigger Pockets Think about Local Regulations?

Those phone numbers get used, which is itself part of the story, though I want to be straight with you about what I can and can't show here. I couldn't find any Reddit or BiggerPockets discussion specific to Mission, and Reddit blocks automated access besides, so what follows is my reading of the public record rather than a survey of threads. Weigh it accordingly.

The record itself is unusually legible, because Mission publishes its licence list. Seventy short-term rental licences against 1,845 active business licences citywide is a small, mostly resident-run market, and 52 of those files opening in 2025 says the licensing requirement found real operators rather than inventing them. Names in the list read like spare rooms and suites, not like a portfolio: guest suites, lofts, bed and breakfasts, a few named after the owners. That's what a principal residence rule produces over time.

Three themes come out of the documents rather than the forums, and they're what I'd expect hosts to talk about most.

• The paperwork is the friction, not the rules. Two applications, two annual renewals on two different clocks, and a provincial file that wants your Social Insurance Number and the mailed copy of a BC Assessment notice. None of it is hard, and all of it takes longer than a first-time host expects.
• The whole-home question is genuinely unresolved. Table 107.1 caps home occupation floor space at 56 sq m inside the Urban Growth Boundary and nothing in Section 107.D lifts it for short-term rentals. Until the city says otherwise in writing, that's a real question for anyone planning to list the entire house while away.
• Enforcement is neighbour-driven and named. Since the city won't act on anonymous complaints, a quiet operation with parking under control tends not to attract a file. A noisy one attracts a signed complaint, and the host has already accepted responsibility for the fines in writing.

The provincial numbers add the wider frame. Registrations came in at over 20,000 against an estimated 28,000 listings before the law, which the province reads as units returning to long-term housing. Whether you find that encouraging depends entirely on which side of it you're standing on. Either way, nobody serious argues any more that the rules go unenforced, because the platforms stopped taking the bookings in June 2025.

If you're comparing Mission against the wider picture before committing, the Canada market data on BNBCalc is the place to see how a principal-residence market like this one prices against the parts of the country that never adopted one.

Rules like Mission's are becoming the norm rather than the exception across British Columbia, and the pattern they follow is consistent. A place will let you host, so long as hosting stays attached to living there. That single condition decides more about a short-term rental's economics than any fee schedule does, so before you look at nightly rates anywhere, find out first whether the town expects you to be home.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you legally run an Airbnb in Mission, BC in 2026?

Yes, with two conditions. The rental must be in your principal residence, or in one secondary suite or accessory dwelling unit on the same lot, because British Columbia's principal residence requirement applies in Mission. And you need both a City of Mission home occupation business licence, currently $158 a year, and a provincial short-term rental registration number, with both numbers displayed on every listing. A separate property you don't live in cannot be short-term rented in Mission.

How much does a Mission short-term rental licence cost?

The City of Mission home occupation business licence is $158.00 annually under Schedule "A" of Business Licence Bylaw 3964-2007, halved for anyone who first becomes liable after September 30. Provincial registration is separate: $100 a year plus a $1.50 service fee where you live in the unit, or $450 where you don't, such as a secondary suite. Renew the city licence before February 1 or a late fee of 25% of the annual fee applies, capped at $250.

Do you pay a hotel tax on a Mission short-term rental?

There's no municipal accommodation tax in Mission. British Columbia charges 8% PST on short-term accommodation, and the up to 3% Municipal and Regional District Tax applies only in areas named in the Designated Accommodation Area Tax Regulation, which does not include Mission. GST of 5% applies on top. If you sell only through a platform like Airbnb, the platform collects and remits the PST, though you remain jointly and severally liable if it fails to.

What happens if you rent on Airbnb in Mission without a licence?

Mission's Bylaw Notice Enforcement Bylaw sets a $250 penalty for operating with no business licence and a $450 penalty for an unauthorized use under the zoning bylaw, with prosecution available up to $10,000 and each day treated as a separate offence. The province can add administrative penalties of up to $5,000 for a first failure to register, rising to $10,000 for a third. Platforms must also delist unregistered listings, and the Income Tax Act denies deductions for non-compliant short-term rentals.

How long does a stay have to be to fall outside Mission's short-term rental rules?

Mission's zoning bylaw defines a short-term rental as accommodation where the maximum length of stay for any guest is less than 90 consecutive days, and the provincial Act uses the same 90-day line, so bookings longer than that fall outside both regimes and need no registration. For tax, the thresholds sit elsewhere: B.C. PST stops applying where the same person stays a continuous period of 27 days or more, and GST applies to occupancy of less than one month.

Last verified: July 2026. Every ordinance, tax rate, state law, and contact detail in this guide links to or comes from its official source.