Wexford, Ireland Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a house or an apartment in Wexford town, in County Wexford on Ireland's southeast coast, and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that nobody has banned it, and the county council's own development plan still describes short-term rentals as "a very important sector in providing tourism accommodation in County Wexford". The catch is that since 1 March 2026 you probably need planning permission before you take a booking, unless the property happens to be the home you live in, and getting that permission is the hard part rather than a formality.

That requirement is genuinely new to Wexford town, which is why older advice about this market is worth treating carefully. Until March, the planning rule on short-term letting only applied inside a rent pressure zone, and the only rent pressure zone in the county was the Gorey Electoral Area, so a whole-house Airbnb in Wexford town needed no permission whatsoever. Then section 30 of the Residential Tenancies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2026 deleted the geography from the test altogether, and it moved the dividing line from 14 days to 21 consecutive nights while it was at it. Wexford County Council's own short-term letting page hasn't caught up with either change, so do read it knowing that.

So let's walk through what it takes to do this properly in 2026: which planning route your property falls into, what each one costs, the documents the council asks for, the tax that follows, how hard Wexford actually enforces any of it, and who to ring when you get stuck. Every figure below comes from Wexford County Council's own pages, the Irish Statute Book, Revenue or the CSO, checked in July 2026, and where something is still only proposed I've said so plainly. Since the planning application is the expensive step, run the property through BNBCalc before you spend anything on drawings.

What are Short-Term Rental (Airbnb, VRBO) Regulations in Wexford, Ireland?

So what does the law say now, and where does the council's page part company with it? One sentence carries most of the regime, and it's short enough to quote in full.

Section 3A(1) of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as substituted on 1 March 2026, reads: "The use of a house, part of a house or unit for short term letting purposes is a material change in the use of the house, part thereof or unit, as the case may be." There's no geographic qualifier in there anymore, and that absence is the whole story. A material change of use counts as development under Irish planning law, development needs permission unless something exempts it, and Wexford town has no special status that would keep it out.

The definition sitting under that sentence matters just as much. A "short term letting" now means letting a house, part of a house or a unit, "on a professional or non-professional basis", "for a period not exceeding 21 consecutive nights", in return for payment, and it covers a licence as readily as a tenancy.

Make sure you count the nights properly, because a 21-night booking sits inside the definition while a 22-night booking sits outside it and stops being a planning question at all. The old 14-day line that most Irish guidance still quotes went out with S.I. No. 67 of 2026, which switched section 30 on from 1 March.

Two exemptions survive, and both of them turn on the property being the place you live. S.I. No. 235 of 2019 inserted article 6(5) into the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, and it lets you rent rooms in your principal private residence on an unrestricted basis while you're there, or let the entire residence for a cumulative 90 days in a calendar year while you're temporarily away.

Wexford's own FAQ is useful on how that cap works: it counts actual booked days rather than nights advertised, and an unused allowance doesn't roll into next year. Neither exemption costs anything, though each one comes with notification forms, which I'll come to.

Put those together and every Wexford property lands in one of four rows.

What you're letting	What the planning system asks of you
Rooms in the home you live in, with you there	Exemption, notify the council on Form 15
Your whole home while you're away, up to 90 days a year	Exemption, notify on Forms 15, 16 and 17
Your whole home for more than 90 days a year	Change of use planning permission
A second property, an inherited house or an investment unit	Change of use planning permission

One honest wrinkle before you rely on the top two rows. S.I. 235/2019 has never been amended, so it still describes the exemption as applying "in a rent pressure zone", and rent pressure zones stopped existing on 1 March 2026 when section 2 of the same 2026 Act repealed them. No replacement regulation has been made since.

Wexford County Council still publishes the three forms and still invites notifications, which tells you how the council is operating the exemption in practice, but it isn't a resolution of the drafting problem. Keep in mind that a phone call to the planning office is cheaper than finding out later, and the number is in the contacts section below.

Which brings me to the council's page itself. It still defines short-term letting as "the letting of a house or apartment, or part of a house or apartment, for any period not exceeding 14 days", which is the threshold that went out in March. And it still frames the whole requirement around rent pressure zones, right down to the line "from 20 June 2025, all of Ireland became a Rent Pressure Zone". That nationwide extension was real enough, yet it ran out on 28 February 2026, a single day before the new section 3A took over.

So the page reaches roughly the right answer for Wexford town by a route that no longer exists, and it reaches the wrong answer on the 21-night threshold. Watch out for that if you're comparing what you read there against what a solicitor tells you.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in Wexford

So work from the table rather than from that page. Two of those four rows need nothing more than a form, while the other two need a full planning application. And unfortunately, if you're reading this as an investor rather than as somebody who lives in the house, you're in the bottom half of that table, which is where Wexford gets genuinely difficult.

Start with what the council has told itself to do. Objective TM49 of the Wexford County Development Plan 2022-2028 commits the council to considering a change of use from residential to short-term letting "having regard to Guidance Note for Local Authorities for Regulating Short Term Letting", while Objective SH28 says the same thing from the housing side. Section 7.7.5 of that plan then lists what actually gets weighed: the land use zoning, whether there's identified permanent housing demand in the settlement, the existing level of tourist accommodation there, and whether more of it suits that particular town.

That same section also states that the council "will not consider proposals which give rise to the proliferation of this use in a settlement", which is the sentence a second or third application on the same street runs into.

The council's FAQ is blunter still. Where there's high housing demand, and taking cumulative impact into account, "it is unlikely that permission would be granted". That's the Department's own 2019 wording, reproduced by Wexford, and nothing since has softened it.

Then there's the number that makes Wexford town different from everywhere else in the county. The draft Short Term Letting National Planning Statement, approved by Government on 17 June 2026, proposes that "for operators in locations with a population of over 20,000, there will be a presumption not to grant planning". Providers in towns of 20,000 or fewer, meanwhile, get a two-year window to become compliant instead.

Wexford town's population was 21,524 in April 2022, according to the CSO's census release, so the town clears that proposed line by about 1,500 people. Nowhere else in the county comes close, since Gorey sits at 11,517, Enniscorthy at 12,310 and New Ross at 8,610 on the same census.

I'd treat that as the central fact of this market, though not yet as law. The Department of Housing says plainly that the draft "will now be subject to a Strategic Environmental Assessment process and the EU Services Directive notification process", with a finalised version expected in the autumn, so the threshold could still move.

Even so, an investor buying in Wexford town in 2026 is buying into the harsher side of a line that most Irish coastal towns fall comfortably below. The same purchase in a smaller resort town reads very differently, which is why the Dungarvan regulation guide is worth reading alongside this one, and the Athlone regulation guide covers a town in almost exactly Wexford's position at 22,869.

A few local quirks are worth knowing before you rule anything in or out. The development plan records that in some parts of the county, Courtown among them, "housing developments have been permitted as holiday homes and can be rented for short term use without any further planning consents", so an existing holiday-home permission is worth far more here than a comparable house without one.

Rural dwellings granted in recent years, on the other hand, are restricted to permanent residence and can't be used as short-term or holiday rents at all. And converting a granny flat or self-contained family unit into tourist accommodation is something the council says it "will not favourably consider", whether or not the original occupant still needs it.

For scale, the same plan reports that 6,616 of the county's 68,206 housing units were holiday homes at Census 2016, which is 9.7% of the stock. That's a decade-old count now, and I couldn't find a more recent county-level figure on an official page, but it tells you Wexford is a tourism-heavy county being regulated with tools designed for housing pressure.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirements in Wexford

Given how much rides on that planning decision, the thing most hosts arrive looking for turns out not to exist at all. There's no short-term rental licence in Wexford, no council permit, no annual renewal and no inspection regime. What there is instead is a planning question with three possible answers, and then a national register arriving in December.

The exemption notification is the cheapest route and the only one that fits a spare room. Where you're home-sharing or using the 90-day allowance in your own principal private residence, you notify the council rather than applying to it, using Form 15, Form 16 and Form 17. Wexford's FAQ sets the deadlines: Form 15 goes in within four weeks of the start of each year and two weeks before the first instance of the proposed change of use, Form 16 within two weeks of the moment you hit the 90-day cap, and Form 17 within four weeks of the end of the calendar year. There's no charge for any of them. Don't forget the middle one, since Form 16 is the step people skip and it's the step that proves you stopped at the cap.

A section 5 declaration is the route when you genuinely can't tell whether you need permission. You ask the council to declare whether what you're proposing is exempted development, and Wexford charges €80 for that request. The declaration must issue within four weeks, and either side can refer it onward to An Coimisiún Pleanála, which is what An Bord Pleanála was renamed on 18 June 2025 under the Planning and Development Act 2024. You can lodge it on paper or through the council's online exempted development service.

Change of use permission is the real application, and it's Form No. 2 under the Planning and Development Regulations 2001. Wexford's own copy of Schedule 9 puts a material change of use in Class 4, so the fee is €80 for each building or €3.60 for each square metre of gross floor space, whichever is greater. Where the use is already running without permission you apply for retention instead, and that costs €240 per building or €10.80 per square metre, again whichever is greater. The council generally decides within eight weeks, you then have four weeks to appeal, and An Coimisiún Pleanála works to an 18-week objective on the appeal itself.

On top of whichever route you're on, though, registration with Fáilte Ireland becomes a legal obligation this winter, since the national short-term letting register opens on 1 December 2026 and every operator has to be registered by 31 December 2026.

It catches anyone "offering paid accommodation for periods of up to and including 21 nights", the number has to be renewed each year because it expires, and it must appear on every listing and advertisement, since platforms may only list units that carry a valid one. Fáilte Ireland hasn't announced the fee yet, saying only that it "will be kept to a minimum", so do treat any figure you see quoted elsewhere as a guess.

Required Documents for Wexford Short-Term Rentals

Since the register will ask you to declare that your planning position is sound, the paperwork you gather now is still the paperwork you'll be standing over in December. Take the exemption route first, because it's the shortest list.

Form 15 asks for:

• The address and Eircode of the property, and the name of the planning authority
• The name of each person making the notification
• Documentation confirming the property is your principal private residence
• The legal owner's written consent, where you aren't the owner yourself
• Whether you're home-sharing under article 6(5)(a)(i), letting the whole home under article 6(5)(a)(ii), or both
• The first date in the year on which short-term letting will happen, the total intended days, and the intended periods
• Contact details for you and, separately, for the legal owner
• A signed declaration that the property is your principal private residence and that everything on the form is true

All three forms go to Planning Enforcement, Planning Department, Wexford County Council, Carricklawn, Wexford Y35 WY93, or by email to [email protected]. That's the enforcement mailbox rather than the general planning one, which surprises people, so send them there rather than to the main planning address.

A change of use application is a different animal. You'll need the completed Form No. 2, a site location map, site layout and floor plans drawn to scale, a site notice erected on the property, a newspaper notice published in an approved paper, and the fee.

Since section 7.7.5 of the development plan turns on housing demand and the existing level of tourist accommodation in the settlement, a bare application form tends to lose. Do put the planning argument in writing: what the building is, what it's been used for, why tourist accommodation suits that particular street, and what happens to the housing stock either way.

Then there's the register itself. Hosts registering with Fáilte Ireland "must make a legal declaration about the unit regarding compliance with statutory obligations", covering planning, building control and fire safety, by self-declaration. So keep the council's acknowledgement of your Form 15, or your grant of permission, somewhere you can find it fast.

Wexford Short-Term Rental Taxes

Assuming you clear the planning side and are able to start taking bookings, there's still tax to deal with, and this is the one layer Wexford County Council has nothing to do with. Every charge below is set nationally, Wexford County Council collects none of it, and the numbers are identical whether your property sits on the Wexford quays or out on the Hook Peninsula.

Charge	Rate	Who you pay
Income tax on short-term letting profit	Your marginal rate, taxed under Case I or Case IV	Revenue, on Form 11 or Form 12
VAT on the accommodation itself	13.5%, and only once turnover passes €42,500	Revenue
VAT on Airbnb's own service fee	23%, charged to you by the platform	Airbnb
Local bed, tourist or occupancy tax	None in force	Nobody

The classification in that first row is worth understanding rather than skipping. Revenue's own manual treats short-term letting income as trading income under Case I, or occasional income under Case IV, and never as rental income under Case V, because your guests hold a licence to occupy rather than a tenancy. That single distinction decides which expenses you can set against the income, so it's worth raising with your accountant before your first return rather than after it.

It also kills the relief most Irish homeowners ask about first. Rent-a-room relief exempts up to €14,000 of income from letting a room in your home, and it does not apply to short-term tourist accommodation, including where the letting comes through an online booking site.

Revenue put an anti-avoidance rule in place precisely to close that door, since the relief needs a minimum letting of 28 consecutive days. A Wexford host renting a room for weekends is well inside the planning exemption and well outside the tax relief, which is an awkward combination nobody warns you about.

VAT is the layer most single-property hosts never reach. Guest and holiday accommodation, expressly including web-based accommodation, is taxable at the reduced rate of 13.5% whatever the length of stay, yet registration only becomes compulsory once you pass the services threshold of €42,500. One house in Wexford at typical nightly rates won't get near that. Three or four will, and the moment you cross it the 13.5% comes out of the same nightly rate you were charging before, so model it in advance if you're planning to scale.

Separately, Airbnb applies 23% Irish VAT to its own service fees rather than to the accommodation, which means the platform's charge to you carries VAT even while your guest's booking does not. Vrbo and Booking.com weren't verified for this guide, so check your own invoices rather than assuming they behave the same way. And no, there's no Wexford bed tax, no county tourist levy and no municipal occupancy charge of any kind in force today.

Ireland Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

Since every euro of that tax is set nationally, it won't shock you to learn that almost everything above Wexford County Council is national too. Ireland has no regional layer between the State and the 31 local authorities, so what changes from town to town is how a council applies the same statute, not what the statute says.

The framework has four moving parts in 2026, and three of them changed inside the last year:

• Planning. Section 3A of the Planning and Development Act 2000 makes short-term letting a material change of use everywhere in the State, with the 21-consecutive-night definition, in force since 1 March 2026. Rent pressure zones were repealed the same day, so no Irish town should now be described as being inside or outside one.
• Exempted development. Article 6(5) of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 still carries the home-share and 90-day exemptions, unamended since 2019, with the rent-pressure-zone wording problem described earlier.
• The register. Fáilte Ireland's national register opens 1 December 2026 with a registration deadline of 31 December 2026. It implements Regulation (EU) 2024/1028 on short-term rental data, which also brings a single digital entry point and monthly reporting from the platforms to the State.
• Platform liability. Fáilte Ireland gets fixed payment notices and District Court proceedings against hosts, plus an administrative sanction procedure against platforms carrying penalties of up to 2% of turnover. That last figure is why the platforms will enforce the register whether or not the councils do.

One further piece of the 2026 Act is still waiting its turn. Section 31 mirrors the same changes into the Planning and Development Act 2024, and it doesn't take effect until that Act's own sections 7 and 8 do, which is the source of a great deal of confusion. Several councils describe the 21-night change as still being drafted, when the version that governs today has already landed.

So if you're comparing markets, the Limerick regulation guide covers a city where the same statute meets a much larger housing shortfall, and the Clonakilty regulation guide covers a small West Cork town well under the proposed 20,000 line.

Does Wexford Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

Because the register will hand councils a list of who's letting what, enforcement in 2027 is unlikely to look much like enforcement in 2024. Still, the record is the only evidence available, and Wexford publishes it every year in a statutory annual report.

The general picture is of a busy enforcement unit. During 2024 the council received 287 formal planning enforcement complaints, up 23% on the year before, issued 437 warning letters across 227 cases and 238 enforcement notices across 109 cases, closed 232 cases, and pushed 19 cases into legal proceedings. At the end of December, 415 cases remained open. That's not a council that ignores unauthorised development.

Short-term letting inside those totals is a different story, though, and the heading the council gives it says everything: "Regulation of Short-Term Letting (in the Gorey Rent Pressure Zone)".

As of 31 December 2024 that file held 8 live cases, with 3 opened and 5 closed during the year. The 2023 report shows 11 live files, 2 warning letters served and 12 cases closed. Across two full years, in other words, the council's entire short-term letting caseload ran to single figures and sat at the northern end of the county, because Wexford town wasn't in scope at all.

So the honest read is that enforcement here has been light, and that its lightness was a function of geography rather than tolerance. That geography is gone. I'd expect the caseload to grow once registration data starts arriving, though I want to be clear that's my inference from how the register is designed, not something the council has announced.

What enforcement looks like when it does arrive is well documented. It runs on written complaints: Wexford will only act on a signed complaint form submitted by post or to [email protected], and it says outright that complaints it judges vexatious, frivolous or trivial won't proceed.

From there the sequence is a warning letter, then an enforcement notice setting out what to fix and by when, then prosecution. Less serious offences under the Planning Acts carry a maximum penalty of €5,000 or six months' imprisonment or both, and continuing the offence after conviction is a fresh offence for each day it continues, carrying up to €1,500 a day.

One myth deserves killing before it costs somebody money. Seven years of unauthorised use does not legalise anything. The council's FAQ puts it exactly: after seven years the authority is "simply statute barred from initiating enforcement proceedings", while "the use remains unauthorised". An unauthorised use still blocks a sale, still fails a solicitor's title check, and, from December, still can't be honestly declared to Fáilte Ireland. Be aware that the register turns a quiet planning irregularity into a signed statement.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in Wexford

Given that a wrong turn early costs you an application fee and eight weeks, the order below matters even more than it looks. The first three steps decide whether the rest are worth attempting.

1. Work out which row of the table you're in. Is this the home you live in, or is it a second property? Everything downstream follows from that one answer, and no structure, company or arrangement changes it.
2. Check for an existing tourism permission. If the house sits in a development permitted as holiday homes, as some in Courtown are, you may already have the consent you need. Search the council's planning register for the address before assuming otherwise.
3. Get a section 5 declaration if there's any doubt. €80 and four weeks buys you a written answer from the planning authority instead of a guess, and it's the cheapest insurance available at this stage.
4. File Form 15 if you're taking the exemption route. Within four weeks of the start of the year, and two weeks before your first short let. Diary Form 16 for the 90-day mark and Form 17 for January.
5. Prepare a real application if you need permission. Form No. 2, maps, scaled drawings, site notice, newspaper notice and the fee, plus a written case addressing zoning, housing demand and the existing level of tourist accommodation in the settlement.
6. Budget for the appeal. Four weeks to lodge with An Coimisiún Pleanála, an 18-week objective for a decision, and no guarantee at the end. Assume a refusal is possible and know what you'd do with the property then.
7. Sort the tax classification before your first booking. Case I or Case IV, not Case V, and no rent-a-room relief. Watch the €42,500 VAT threshold if you're running more than one unit.
8. Register with Fáilte Ireland in December. The register opens on 1 December 2026 and the obligation bites on 31 December 2026, the number goes on every listing, and you'll be declaring your planning compliance when you apply.
9. Diary the annual renewal. The registration number expires, so a lapsed renewal means the platforms can't legally list you.

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

Working through those steps, you'll deal with three organisations and no more, and knowing which one owns which question saves a lot of transferred calls.

Planning permission, zoning and section 5 declarations

Wexford County Council's Planning Department handles everything from a pre-planning query to a change of use application.

• Address: Planning Customer Services, Block B, County Hall, Carricklawn, Wexford, Y35 WY93
• Phone: 053 9196101
• Email: [email protected]
• Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 9.00 am to 1.00 pm and 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm

Forms 15, 16 and 17, and enforcement

Planning Enforcement is a separate desk in the same building, and it's where the short-term letting notifications go as well as the complaints.

• Address: Planning Enforcement, Wexford County Council, Carricklawn, Wexford, Y35 WY93
• Phone: 053 9196043
• Email: [email protected]
• Complaints: written and signed only, on the council's planning enforcement complaint form

The national register

Fáilte Ireland runs the short-term letting register and is the contact for registration itself, not for planning.

• Online: the short-term letting register and its FAQ
• Opens: 1 December 2026, with a registration deadline of 31 December 2026

Tax

Revenue handles income tax and VAT. File through myAccount or ROS, on Form 12 if letting is a sideline and Form 11 if you're a chargeable person, and raise the Case I versus Case IV question with an accountant before you file rather than after.

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

Beyond the offices above, most hosts form their view of all this from other hosts, so it's worth being straight about what I could and couldn't verify. I found no Wexford-specific host thread I could open and read, so I'm not going to tell you what Reddit thinks about Wexford County Council. What I can point at is the sector's own representative body, which has been vocal all year and is on the record.

The trade press carried the federation's response to the draft planning statement in June 2026. Its chairperson Derek Keogh said it "fails to address the core issue, that of making it economically viable for existing genuine tourism accommodation providers in rural Ireland to continue to operate", and he called the whole package an "enforceable but unworkable piece of legislation that will decimate rural tourism".

Read that alongside the 20,000 threshold and the shape of the argument comes clear, because operators aren't fighting the register at all. What they're fighting is a planning test that treats a tourism business somebody has run for fifteen years exactly the way it treats a brand new conversion.

From what I can tell, three themes recur wherever Irish hosts discuss this, and each of them lands squarely on Wexford. The first is that nobody trusts the published guidance, since councils across the country are still describing 14 days and rent pressure zones months after both were replaced. The second is that the exemption route has quietly become the only viable route for anyone who isn't already permitted, which pushes hosts toward a spare room rather than a second house.

The third is that the December register is doing the work everybody expected enforcement to do, because a platform that must verify a number will act faster than a planning department that must serve a notice.

Once you know which route your own property is on, the numbers are still the part that decides it. The Wexford market data on BNBCalc Markets carries nightly rates, occupancy and listing counts for the town itself, and holding those up against a smaller coastal town such as Bundoran will tell you more than any comparison with Dublin does.

The wider lesson here isn't really about one county council or one draft policy. It's that when a rule stops depending on where a property sits and starts depending on who lives in it, the winners are people who own one home and the losers are people who own two. I'd say that shift has been running quietly across Europe for years now, and it turns the first question you ask before any purchase on its head: not whether the numbers work, but whether the person signing the contract will be sleeping in the building.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you need planning permission for an Airbnb in Wexford in 2026?

In most cases, yes. Since 1 March 2026, letting a house or apartment for 21 consecutive nights or fewer is a material change of use anywhere in Ireland, which means it needs planning permission unless an exemption applies. The only exemptions cover your own principal private residence: renting rooms while you live there, or letting the whole home for up to 90 days a year while you're away. A second property or an investment unit in Wexford needs a change of use permission from Wexford County Council.

How much does short-term letting permission cost in Wexford?

Notifying the council that you're using the home-share or 90-day exemption is free. A section 5 declaration, which asks the council to rule on whether you need permission at all, costs €80 in Wexford. A change of use planning application costs €80 per building or €3.60 per square metre of gross floor space, whichever is greater, and a retention application for a use already running costs €240 per building or €10.80 per square metre. Fáilte Ireland's registration fee had not been announced as of July 2026.

What is the 90-day rule for short-term letting in Ireland?

If a property is your principal private residence, you may let the whole of it for short stays for a cumulative 90 days in a calendar year while you're temporarily absent, without planning permission. The cap counts days actually booked rather than days advertised, and an unused allowance doesn't carry into the following year. Once you go past 90 days you need change of use permission. You must also notify the council using Form 15 at the start of the year, Form 16 when you reach the cap, and Form 17 at year end.

When does the Irish short-term letting register open?

Fáilte Ireland's national register opens on 1 December 2026, and every operator offering paid accommodation for stays of up to and including 21 nights has a legal obligation to be registered by 31 December 2026. The registration number must appear on every listing and advertisement, platforms may only list units carrying a valid number, and registration has to be renewed each year because the number expires. Applicants make a legal self-declaration that the unit complies with planning, building control and fire safety obligations.

What are the penalties for an unauthorised short-term let in Wexford?

Less serious offences under the Planning Acts carry a maximum penalty of €5,000 or six months' imprisonment or both, and continuing the offence after conviction is a separate offence for each day, carrying up to €1,500 a day. Wexford County Council acts on signed written complaints, issuing a warning letter, then an enforcement notice, then prosecution. Seven years of unauthorised use bars the council from starting proceedings but does not make the use lawful, so it still blocks a sale and cannot be declared as compliant.

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