(A) Within thirty (30) days after a new tenant occupies rental property of any kind within the Municipality, all owners of rental property who rent to tenants of apartments, rooms and other rental accommodations shall file with the Tax Administrator a report showing the name, address and telephone number, if available, of each such tenant who occupies an apartment, room or other rental property within the Municipality.
(B) Within thirty (30) days after a tenant vacates an apartment, room or other rental property located within the Municipality, the owner of such vacated rental property shall file with the Tax Administrator a report showing the date of vacation from the rental property and a forwarding address.
(C) On or before October 1, 2008, and on or before the 1st day of October of each year thereafter, all landlords who rent property in the City of Brooklyn, Ohio, must submit an up-to- date list of all their tenants to the Brooklyn Tax Administrator.
(D) The Tax Administrator may order the appearance before him, or his duly authorized agent, of any person whom he believes to have any knowledge of the name, address and telephone number of any tenant of residential rental real property in the City of Brooklyn. The Tax Administrator, or his duly authorized agent, is authorized to examine any person, under oath, concerning the name, address and telephone number of any tenant of residential real property located in the City of Brooklyn. The Tax Administrator, or his duly authorized agent, may compel the production of papers and records and the attendance of all personal before him, whether as parties or witnesses, whenever he believes such person has knowledge of the name, address and telephone number of any tenant of residential real property in the City of Brooklyn.
(E) Any property owner or person that violates one or more of the following shall be subject to Section 182.99:
(1) Fails, refuses or neglects to timely file a written report required by subsection (a) hereof; or
(2) Makes an incomplete or intentionally false written report required by subsection (a) hereof; or
(3) Fails to appear before the Tax Administrator or any duly authorized agent and to produce and disclose any tenant information pursuant to any order or subpoena of the Tax Administrator as authorized in this section; or
(4) Fails to comply with the provisions of this section or any order or subpoena of the Tax Administrator.
(Ord. 2015-60. Passed 11-23-15.)