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Travis County

Travis County Clerk, Recording Division

In short

Travis County Clerk, Recording Division issues 2 permits we publish for Travis County, last verified 2026-09-28. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.

What this agency issues

Permits required, with issuing agency, fee, renewal term and the date each record was last verified against its source
General Business License — Travis County Positiononly if it applies to youTravis County Clerk, Recording DivisionNo feenot applicable — Travis County issues no general business license2026-09-28
Assumed Name Certificate (DBA) FilingTravis County Clerk, Recording Division$23.00 for one business name/one owner, plus $0.50 for each additional owner on the same statement, plus $2.00 per acknowledgment if completed in-office; an optional name-availability search is $10.00.Texas Business and Commerce Code Chapter 71 sets a 10-year term for an assumed name certificate statewide; the Travis County Clerk's own DBA page does not separately restate this term2026-09-28

Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.

About each permit

General Business License — Travis County Position

No fee applies at the county level. The Travis County Code index page (by Title, Subtitle and Chapter) lists no general business or occupational licensing chapter: in Title 2 (Ordinances & Regulations), the industry licensing and permit chapters it lists are Chapter 247 (Food Establishments Permits) and Chapter 249 (Junkyards, Automotive Wrecking, and Salvage Yard Ordinance), alongside Chapter 250 (Sexually Oriented Businesses Regulations), Chapter 251 (Regulations of Massage Parlors) and Chapter 260 (Public Swimming Pools), none of which is a general business license. Third-party aggregator sites asserting a generic 'Travis County business license' requirement are not government sources and are disregarded here. A business physically located inside Austin or another incorporated city should also check that city's own licensing requirements, out of scope here.

Assumed Name Certificate (DBA) Filing

A sole proprietorship or general partnership doing business in Travis County under a name other than the owner's own legal name files an Assumed Name Certificate with the Travis County Clerk, countywide, including inside the City of Austin. IMPORTANT: as of September 1, 2019, the Travis County Clerk's Recording Division no longer records assumed names for incorporated entities — an LLC or corporation now files its assumed name exclusively with the Texas Secretary of State, not the county. Only unincorporated businesses (sole proprietorships and general partnerships) still file at the county level. The filing fee is $23.00 for the first owner named plus $0.50 for each additional owner, with a $2.00 in-office acknowledgment fee and an optional $10.00 name-availability search. This filing is a public-notice recording function, not a business license; the Travis County Code index page lists no general business-licensing chapter (see the General Business License record below).

Contact

Jurisdiction
Travis County
Phone
512-854-9188, option 7

Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.

Sources

Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.

  1. DBAs (Assumed Name Certificate filing requirements, and the September 1, 2019 incorporated-vs-unincorporated filing split)Travis County Clerk · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29
  2. Recording Fee Information (Assumed Name Certificate and related recording fees)Travis County Clerk · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29
  3. Texas Business and Commerce Code Chapter 71, Assumed Business or Professional NameTexas Legislature · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
  4. Travis County Code index — by Title, Subtitle, and Chapter (Title 2 Ordinances & Regulations: Subtitles 11 Fire & Emergency, 13 Health & Safety, 15 Environment and 19 Land Development)Travis County Commissioners Court · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29

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