La Quinta Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a place in La Quinta and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that short-term renting is perfectly legal here, and 1,215 homes held an active permit at the end of 2025. The bad news arrives quickly though, because the city stopped handing out new ones. Section 3.25.055 of the La Quinta Municipal Code has imposed a permanent ban on issuing new general and primary-residence short-term vacation rental permits since May 20, 2021, and the city has not softened it since.

The question in La Quinta isn't really "how do I get a permit." It's "does my address already qualify," and for most of this city in Riverside County the honest answer is no. Three doors are still open: an address inside one of the 18 exempt areas the city publishes, a homeshare where you live in the house throughout the guest's stay, or a single parcel of 25,000 square feet or more that the City Council certifies at a public hearing. Everything else is closed, and buying a permitted home doesn't help either, since permits die on sale rather than transferring to you.

So let's walk through what it actually takes to do this properly: whether your address is one of the lucky ones, what each permit type costs, the documents the City Clerk wants, the 10% tax nobody collects for you, and how hard La Quinta pushes when someone rents without a permit. Every figure below comes from the city's own code, fee schedule and quarterly reports, checked in July 2026. Before you commit to anything here, run the property through BNBCalc first, because a homeshare and a whole-home rental are very different businesses.

What are Short-Term Rental (Airbnb, VRBO) Regulations in La Quinta, California?

That permit you can't easily get is defined, priced and policed by a single chapter, so start there. Chapter 3.25 of the La Quinta Municipal Code governs every short-term vacation rental in the city, and Chapter 3.24 handles the tax. A short-term vacation rental is any privately owned residential dwelling rented for transient use for 30 consecutive calendar days or less.

Count part days as full days, by the way, which is how a 30-night booking and a 31-night one end up on opposite sides of the line.

One thing La Quinta does better than most cities is bundle the paperwork. Under § 3.25.030, the short-term vacation rental permit "incorporates by consolidation" the transient occupancy permit and the business license you'd otherwise need separately, so you're managing one document and one annual renewal rather than three.

The chapter sorts permits into three types, and which one you hold decides both your fee and whether you could ever have applied:

• General covers a second home or an investment property. It's the type most investors want, and it's the type the city no longer issues outside exempt areas.
• Primary residence applies where staff verify the property as the owner's primary residence in the Riverside County assessor's records and the owner rents it periodically. Also frozen outside exempt areas.
• Homeshare means the owner hosts guests while living on site in the dwelling for the whole stay. This is the one category that stayed open citywide.

Two sub-types sit on top of those. An estate home is a single-family detached residence with five or more bedrooms, and it carries extra conditions of its own. A multi-unit lock-off is a dwelling built so sections can be locked off into stand-alone units with their own exterior access, sleeping space and bathroom.

Apartments get no route at all. Section 3.25.070(S) says plainly that no apartment, apartment building or apartment project is eligible to apply for or obtain a permit, and the city rejects the workaround too. Under § 3.25.070(T), as amended by Ordinance No. 631 on April 7, 2026, a home rented for 31 days or more that gets sub-rented to a subtenant for 30 days or less is a short-term vacation rental, full stop, and the whole chapter applies. The code calls that subsection "declaratory of existing law," which is the city's way of saying the loophole was never open.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in La Quinta

Unfortunately for most people reading this, the business you had in mind isn't available. If your plan was to buy a house near PGA West, furnish it, and rent it whole at nightly rates, La Quinta won't issue the permit that makes it legal, and no fee or entity structure gets around that.

Section 3.25.055 has blocked processing and issuance of new permits since May 20, 2021. It does list five circumstances that escape the ban:

• A residential project in the Tourist Commercial zone.
• A residential project in the Village Commercial zone.
• A project covered by a development agreement, or by an entitlement condition allowing short-term rentals, where the recorded covenants authorize the use.
• Anything inside the SilverRock Resort or Estates at Griffin Lake specific plans.
• A defined block adjacent to the Tourist Commercial zone near Avenida Obregon.

The city turns that legal language into a plain list of 18 named exempt areas, which is far more useful when you're checking an address. Legacy Villas, La Quinta Resort with its Spa and Tennis Villas, Puerta Azul, Signature at PGA West, Polo Villas, SilverRock and Talus, Casitas Las Rosas and the Village Commercial district are all on it.

Your subdivision almost certainly is not.

Do read the footnote on that list, because it catches people out. An HOA that permits short-term rentals is not thereby exempt. The city states it directly: HOAs allowing short-term rentals that aren't on the list "are not exempt from the ban and cannot obtain a new STVR permit at this time."

Then, in 2024, the council reopened two narrow doors. Effective January 4, 2024, homeshare permits became exempt from the ban under § 3.25.055(C), and § 3.25.057 created the Large Lot Qualified and Certified route.

To use that second one, your single parcel has to be no smaller than 25,000 square feet, hold at least one dwelling, never be subdivided or shrunk by a lot line adjustment, carry HOA authorization where an HOA governs it, and have adequate on-site parking. You file with the City Clerk, the planning department reviews it, and the City Council holds a public hearing within 90 days of the application being deemed complete. Council can approve, condition, or deny, and it can require you to record a land use covenant against the parcel. Its decision is final, with no appeal.

Keep in mind that the council also locked the door behind itself. The same 2024 ordinance added § 3.25.055(E), which means the ban can't be amended except by a four-fifths majority vote of the city council. A simple 3-2 majority in some future election won't reopen anything.

Voters had their turn on this too. In November 2022, La Quinta residents rejected Measure A, a citizen initiative that would have phased out and permanently banned non-hosted short-term rentals in non-exempt areas by December 31, 2024. Since it failed, Chapter 3.25 survived intact, ban included. So the city didn't go further, yet it didn't retreat either, and the practical effect is a market that shrinks a little every year through attrition. Permits in the ban areas are down 387, or 37%, since January 2021, according to the city's Q4 2025 quarterly report, purely through sales and non-renewals.

If whole-home nightly rentals are the business you actually want, other California jurisdictions still allow them under a normal permit, and our Sonoma County guide and Placer County guide cover two of the bigger vacation-rental counties where that's the case.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirements in La Quinta

Assuming your address does manage to clear one of those three doors, the licensing part is then refreshingly ordinary. The permit runs for one year and has to be renewed annually to stay valid. Renewals open in your online account 60 days before expiry, and § 3.25.050(B)(1) wants the application in before the expiration date, since missing it can terminate the permit outright. The city gives itself up to 30 calendar days to process either a new application or a renewal.

Fees depend on your permit type and your bedroom count. The city's STVR application page publishes them all, as of July 2026:

Permit type	Under 5 bedrooms	5 bedrooms or more
Homeshare	$315/year	$577.50/year
Primary residence	$787.50/year	$1,312.50/year
General	$1,050/year	$1,312.50/year
General (mitigated)	$315/year	$577.50/year

That last row is worth knowing if you're buying inside one of four specific projects. General (mitigated) pricing applies at La Quinta Desert Villas (Homewood Suites), Legacy Villas, Puerta Azul and Signature at PGA West, which are subject to mitigation fees, and it cuts the cost of a general permit by 70%. Multi-unit lock-off units run $1,050 a year on a general permit and $787.50 on a primary-residence one.

Bedrooms drive more than the fee. Your permit is valid only for the bedroom count the city approves, and you may not advertise more than that. A first violation for advertising the wrong count draws an administrative fine, while a second can revoke the permit entirely. Converting a den into a bedroom later means notifying the city, updating your online profile, and getting the permit reissued, and the city may inspect to confirm it. Code compliance inspections are billed at full cost recovery, one hour for the initial visit and 30-minute increments after that.

Parking is the requirement that quietly disqualifies properties. Section 3.25.050(F) takes your maximum overnight occupancy, divides by four, and requires that many on-site spaces, with a ratio no worse than four occupants to one space. Spaces have to be on an approved driveway, in a garage or under a carport, and no more than two street spots can count toward the total. The code works the example itself: a five-bedroom home hosting 10 to 12 people needs three on-site spaces.

Estate homes carry a heavier load. Because an estate home means five or more bedrooms, the application triggers an evaluation and inspection covering bedroom count, active noise monitoring, on-site and nearby street parking, and the physical distance between your pool, patio and gathering spaces and the neighbors' windows. Section 3.25.070(A)(2) then requires a noise monitoring device that stays operable at all times. The city manager can attach further conditions to any individual property, estate home or not.

There were 66 estate permits inside that 1,215 total at the end of 2025.

Three more conditions can block a renewal, and each one is avoidable:

• Unpaid or unreported tax. A permit won't be issued or renewed if any transient occupancy tax for the previous calendar year is missing.
• An open code violation. If the city has already issued written notice of a violation when you apply, that alone is grounds for refusal, suspension or permanent revocation.
• Inadequate parking, measured the way described above.

One quirk catches sellers and buyers alike. Permits don't transfer. When a property changes hands, the existing permit terminates, the new owner must apply fresh, and operating through the gap risks a $1,000 per day fine under § 3.25.060(F). Narrow exceptions exist for transfers into an entity where the same owners hold the same proportionate interests, and for transfers on death to a spouse, sibling, parent, grandparent, child or grandchild.

And should you ever file a declaration of non-use to close a permit voluntarily, remember you can't apply again for 12 consecutive months afterwards.

Required Documents for La Quinta Short-Term Rentals

Since those fees don't come back, it's worth getting the application right the first time. Everything runs through the city's online portal, so there's no paper packet to assemble, though § 3.25.060(A) sets out what the form will ask for:

• Your name, address and telephone number as owner, plus the same for your authorized agent or representative if you use one.
• The name and 24-hour telephone number of your local contact person, who must be able to be on site within 30 minutes.
• The number of bedrooms, which can't exceed the number the city has approved and has to satisfy building and construction requirements in Title 8 of the code.
• Acknowledgement that you've received the city's electronically distributed short-term rental materials, including the good guest brochure.
• Written authorization that a permit wouldn't conflict with your HOA's rules. This one has teeth: if an HOA or similar body has filed a document with the city saying short-term rentals aren't permitted on your property, the code creates a rebuttable presumption that you don't have authorization.
• The application fee, which the permit won't issue without.

For a homeshare, add proof you own the place. The city asks applicants to email the STVR team with a copy of the grant deed before it opens an account for you, and the same goes for a large-lot application, which also needs the parcel identified by address and parcel number.

Don't forget that the local contact requirement is an ongoing obligation, not a box you tick once. Any change of agent, local contact or other application detail has to be updated in your online profile immediately, and failing to do so is itself a violation that can suspend the permit until you fix it.

La Quinta Short-Term Rental Taxes

Assuming you get through all that and are able to start hosting, there's still tax to deal with, and here La Quinta differs from most Airbnb markets in a way that costs careless hosts real money. Airbnb does not collect the tax for you. Reading through Airbnb's California collection list in July 2026, La Quinta has no entry at all. The Riverside County entry that does appear says explicitly that it "does not include the incorporated cities," so the money arrives in your account and stays your responsibility.

Charge	Rate	Who collects and remits it
La Quinta transient occupancy tax	10% of rent	You, monthly, to the City of La Quinta
Group hotel transient occupancy tax	11% of rent	Hotels of 125+ rooms only, not short-term rentals
California statewide occupancy tax	none	No state lodging tax exists
California tourism assessment	set by the Office of Tourism	You, annually, direct to the state

The city rate comes from § 3.24.030, which charges 11% for group hotels and 10% for all other hotel occupancy, and Chapter 3.24 defines "hotel" to include a short-term vacation rental unit. The city's own quarterly report puts it in one line: transient occupancy tax "is a 10% tax due to the City each month on all STVR stays of 30-days or less."

Filing is monthly and it's unforgiving on timing. Under §§ 3.24.070 and 3.24.080, your return and remittance are due on or before the last working day of the month following each calendar month, signed under penalty of perjury. Section 3.25.070(L) adds that you file every month even if the property sat empty. And you can't net anything out first, since the code says rent may not be reduced by business expenses, including credit card service charges or commissions paid to travel agencies.

Miss the deadline and you owe a 10% penalty plus 0.5% interest per month. Where the city determines the failure was fraudulent, § 3.24.110 adds another 100% of the tax and penalties on top of that.

Above the city, California keeps things simple. There's no state occupancy tax at all. Revenue and Taxation Code § 7280 merely authorizes cities and counties to tax stays of 30 days or less, with no cap on the rate, which is why every California number you'll read varies so much by city.

Your profit is then ordinary income to the Franchise Tax Board, for residents on all rental income and for nonresidents on income from California property. One more state charge exists, a tourism self-assessment on accommodations revenue filed with the California Office of Tourism. I couldn't verify its current-year rate from a live official page, so treat that one as a question for your accountant rather than a number to budget from this article.

California Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

That patchwork of city rates is the clearest sign of how California handles this generally, which is to say it mostly doesn't. There's no statewide short-term rental permit, no state registry, and no state occupancy tax, so the substantive rules live in city and county codes. Our California statewide guide maps how differently they land from one jurisdiction to the next.

The state does set a handful of guardrails that reach into La Quinta, and a few of them are worth knowing before you argue with anyone:

• Fines are capped. For violations of a local short-term rental ordinance, Government Code § 36900(d) caps city fines at $1,500 for a first violation, $3,000 for a second within a year and $5,000 for further ones, and the higher tiers apply only where the violation threatens public health or safety. A hardship waiver process is required. La Quinta's own $5,000 fine for operating without a permit sits right at that ceiling.
• Your HOA can ban you outright. Civil Code § 4741(c) lets a common interest development prohibit rentals of 30 days or less even though it can't ban longer ones. In a city built on gated communities, that matters as much as the ordinance does.
• Accessory dwelling units are off the table. Government Code § 66323(e) requires rentals of ADUs approved under that section to run longer than 30 days, and AB 1154 extended the same floor to junior ADUs in 2025. Building a casita and listing it nightly isn't a route around anything.
• Platforms owe you disclosures. Under Business and Professions Code § 22592 a hosting platform has to warn you that listing may breach your lease and that your insurance may not cover short-term rental use, and since July 2024 advertised nightly rates must show all mandatory fees except government taxes.
• A new reporting law took effect January 1, 2026. SB 346, the Short-Term Rental Facilitator Act of 2025, sits at Government Code § 50990 and lets a local agency adopt an ordinance requiring platforms to report each rental's physical address and to carry local licence numbers in listings. It's opt-in, so whether La Quinta adopts it is a council decision I'd watch.

The one state guardrail that doesn't help here is the coastal one. Coastal Commission oversight of short-term rental rules applies inside the coastal zone, and La Quinta sits well out in the inland desert, so nothing about it constrains what the city does.

Does La Quinta Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

Nothing in state law is going to loosen any of this for you, then, which makes local enforcement the question that actually decides your risk. Yes, La Quinta enforces, and it publishes enough data every quarter that you don't have to take my word for it. Enforcement here runs on three tracks at once, which is what makes it effective.

The first is the platform block. Section 3.25.080(B) bars a hosting platform from completing any booking for a property without a current, valid, unsuspended permit, and the city maintains a public registry of active and suspended permits, refreshed every Wednesday by 5:00 p.m., that platforms can match against. An unpermitted listing therefore doesn't get quietly tolerated, it gets starved of bookings.

The second is the 24/7 hotline on (760) 777-7157, and the routing behind it is more serious than most cities manage. City code compliance officers answer during business hours and Saturdays. Friday through Sunday from 6:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m., a vendor answers and a contracted security patrol officer gets dispatched to the property. Overnight, the vendor calls your designated local contact, or the Sheriff's department where the situation calls for it. That's why the 30-minute response obligation on your local contact isn't decorative.

Somebody really will call them at 1 a.m.

The third is the two-strikes policy in § 3.25.090(D). Two violations of the chapter or the code within one year at a single dwelling triggers immediate suspension of the permit, with a hearing afterwards to request that it be lifted. There's a written "minor violation reprieve request" for genuinely trivial first offences, such as trash containers left in view, a permit number missing or misplaced on a listing, or over-occupancy caused by a minor child with no disturbance attached. Everything else counts.

Administrative fines stack on top:

• Occupancy, noise and parking violations: $1,000, then $2,000, then $3,000.
• Operating without a valid permit: $1,500, then $3,000, then $5,000.
• Advertising without a valid permit: $1,000 to $3,000 for an owner, $1,500 to $5,000 for a management company.
• Hosting a special event without a permit under § 9.60.170: $5,000 for a first violation, and $5,000 again for a second.

Watch out for the sentence that follows the unpermitted-operation fines, because it's the harshest line in the chapter. A first violation of operating without a permit is cause for the owner to be "prohibited for all time" from being issued a short-term vacation rental permit or business license for that use. The same lifetime bar applies to management companies that knowingly advertise unpermitted units three times.

One citation can end your eligibility here permanently.

The city's Q4 2025 numbers show where the pressure actually lands. Across 2025, 47% of complaints concerned unpermitted properties, 65% of citations went to unpermitted properties, and 87% of citations were administrative, mostly for operating or advertising without a permit rather than for noisy parties. Quarterly complaint volumes also fell considerably in 2025 against 2022 through 2024. Read together, that's a permitted market that has largely settled down and an unpermitted one the city is still actively hunting.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in La Quinta

None of that enforcement touches you if the address never qualifies, which is why the order of these steps matters more than usual here. Get the first one wrong and the rest are wasted effort, so do work through them in sequence.

1. Check the address before anything else. Compare it against the city's 18 exempt areas, then email [email protected] with the address and let staff confirm eligibility in writing. Do this before you make an offer on a property, not after.
2. Read the HOA documents. In a city of gated communities this decides as much as the ordinance does, and a recorded prohibition on rentals of 30 days or less is enforceable under state law regardless of what the city says.
3. Pick your realistic permit type. Outside an exempt area, that means a homeshare with you living in the house throughout every stay, or a large-lot certification if your parcel is 25,000 square feet or more. There isn't a third option.
4. Run the numbers on that specific shape. A homeshare is a spare-bedroom business, not a whole-home one, so model it as such rather than assuming the comps you see for four-bedroom listings apply to you.
5. Count your parking spaces. Divide the maximum overnight occupancy for your bedroom count by four, then confirm you have that many spaces on a driveway, in a garage or under a carport.
6. Email the STVR team your grant deed and let them open your online account, then complete the application, including your 24-hour local contact and the HOA authorization.
7. Pay the fee and allow 30 days. Don't advertise or accept a booking in the meantime, since advertising without a valid permit carries its own fine schedule.
8. Set up the property before the first guest. Post the permit and the good guest brochure conspicuously inside, put the permit number and authorized bedroom count at the top of every listing, note homeshare status where it applies, and install a noise monitor if you're operating an estate home.
9. Diarize the monthly tax filing. The return is due by the last working day of the following month, every month, whether or not anyone stayed.
10. Renew 60 days early, and clear any code violations and outstanding tax before you file, because either one can block the renewal.

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

Wherever you get stuck in that sequence, one department owns most of the answers. The City Clerk's Department runs the short-term vacation rental program, which isn't where I'd expect to find it, and it's useful to know when you're deciding who to call.

Permits, renewals and eligibility

• STVR team: (760) 777-7149, or [email protected], which is also where you send a grant deed to confirm whether an address qualifies.
• City Clerk's Department: (760) 777-7147, [email protected]. Monika Radeva is the City Clerk.
• City Hall: 78-495 Calle Tampico, La Quinta, CA 92253, main line (760) 777-7000.
• Hours: Monday to Thursday 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The Customer Service Center runs 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday to Friday, and you can book an appointment on (760) 777-7125.
• Online portal problems: the city's vendor handles these on (888) 751-1911 or [email protected], not the STVR team.

Complaints, citations and code compliance

• 24/7 STVR hotline: (760) 777-7157, for violations happening right now. Calls can be anonymous.
• Complaint by email: [email protected], which the city says isn't monitored around the clock and gets picked up the next business day.
• Code Compliance during business hours: (760) 777-7050, which is also the number for a property that isn't a permitted rental at all.
• Sheriff non-emergency dispatch: (760) 863-3215. Be aware that the city's compliance page prints this as (760) 836-3215 ext. 5 while its Contact Us page prints (760) 863-3215, so the two official pages disagree on the digits. Confirm before you rely on it.

Appeals split by type. A permit suspension goes to the city manager, whose decision is the city's final word under § 3.25.100. An administrative citation imposing a fine follows the separate appeal route in Chapter 1.09 instead, and both forms are linked from the city's compliance page.

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

Calling any of those numbers assumes you got a permit at all, and that assumption is where the conversation among owners here tends to start. What follows is my read of public discussion rather than any kind of survey, since I couldn't reach Reddit's threads directly, so do weigh it accordingly.

• Investors treat La Quinta as a closed market and say so plainly. The recurring advice on BiggerPockets, including a December 2022 thread opened right after Measure A failed, is that the ban survived the vote and buyers should look at neighboring Coachella Valley cities instead. Nobody in that discussion argues the ban is going away.
• Existing permits get talked about as an asset, which they aren't. The most expensive misunderstanding I see repeated is the belief that buying a permitted home buys the permit. It doesn't. The permit terminates on sale, the new owner has to apply fresh, and outside an exempt area that application will be refused.
• Homeshare hosts describe an ordinary, workable program. Where people do qualify, complaints cluster on paperwork and on the 30-minute local-contact obligation rather than on the rules themselves. The city's own data supports that reading, given how few 2025 citations went to permitted properties.
• The unpermitted operators are the ones getting hurt. With 87% of 2025 citations administrative and a lifetime ban available from a first offence, the "list it and see what happens" approach that works in loosely policed markets is a genuinely bad idea here.

Where does that leave a buyer? Honestly, if you want a whole-home nightly rental in this valley, look at the neighboring cities before you look at La Quinta, and compare the revenue on real listings rather than on assumptions. The Palm Springs market is the natural benchmark for anyone weighing a Coachella Valley purchase in 2026, since it covers the surrounding desert cities where whole-home permits are still obtainable. Then take whatever La Quinta address you're considering, confirm its eligibility with the city in writing, and model the homeshare version of the business honestly before you sign anything.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you run an Airbnb in La Quinta, California in 2026?

Only in limited circumstances. La Quinta Municipal Code § 3.25.055 has barred new general and primary-residence short-term vacation rental permits since May 20, 2021. New permits now go to three groups only: properties inside one of the city's 18 published exempt areas, homeshares where the owner lives on site throughout the guest's stay, and single parcels of 25,000 square feet or more that the City Council certifies at a public hearing. Existing permits remain valid and renew annually.

How much does a La Quinta short-term rental permit cost?

Fees run annually and depend on permit type and bedroom count. A homeshare permit costs $315 a year under five bedrooms and $577.50 at five or more. A primary-residence permit costs $787.50 and $1,312.50. A general permit costs $1,050 and $1,312.50. Properties in four projects subject to mitigation fees, La Quinta Desert Villas, Legacy Villas, Puerta Azul and Signature at PGA West, pay the reduced $315 and $577.50 rates. The permit consolidates the business license and transient occupancy permit.

Does a La Quinta short-term rental permit transfer when the property is sold?

No. When a property with a permit changes ownership, the existing permit terminates and the new owner must apply for a new one, which outside an exempt area will be refused under the ban. Operating during that gap can draw a $1,000 per day fine. Narrow exceptions cover transfers into an entity holding the same proportionate ownership interests and transfers on an owner's death to a spouse, sibling, parent, grandparent, child or grandchild.

What tax do you pay on a short-term rental in La Quinta?

La Quinta charges a 10% transient occupancy tax on stays of 30 consecutive days or less, under Municipal Code § 3.24.030. Airbnb does not collect it, since La Quinta is not on Airbnb's California collection list. The host files a return and remits the tax to the city by the last working day of the month following each calendar month, every month, even with no bookings. Late payment adds a 10% penalty plus 0.5% interest monthly. California levies no state occupancy tax.

What happens if you rent a La Quinta home without a permit?

Administrative fines start at $1,500 for a first violation, rise to $3,000 and then $5,000, and advertising without a permit carries its own schedule starting at $1,000. More seriously, a first violation of operating without a permit is cause for the owner to be prohibited permanently from ever holding a short-term vacation rental permit or business license for that use. Hosting platforms are also barred from completing bookings for properties without a current, valid permit.

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