(A) To provide certain minimum standards, provisions, and requirements for safe and stable design, construction, uses of materials, and maintenance of rental residential dwellings, the regulations promulgated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and known as Section 8 Existing Housing Program, being 42 U.S.C. § 1437f and published by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and printed in book or pamphlet form, is hereby incorporated by reference in addition to all amended editions as though printed in full herein insofar as said regulations do not conflict with the statutes of the state. The City Council shall have the authority to establish regulations differing from the Section 8 Existing Housing Program, by resolution, and any such resolution is hereby incorporated by reference, and, together with the regulations known as Section 8 Existing Housing Program, shall constitute the Rental Housing Standards Code for the village. Three copies of the Rental Housing Standards Code are on file at the office of the Village Clerk and are available for public inspection at any reasonable time. The provisions of the Rental Housing Standards Code shall be controlling throughout the village.
(B) To ensure compliance with the Rental Housing Standards Code, every residential dwelling unit within the village which is not occupied by a person who is a record title owner of said unit, shall be inspected by the village and brought into compliance with this Code by the owner or owners of said dwelling upon receipt by the municipal Building Inspector of a complaint and request for inspection by one or more of the legal occupants of said unit.
(C) An owner of a residential dwelling unit who has failed to allow the village to inspect any residential dwelling covered by this section; failed to bring a dwelling into compliance with the code within the time allowed to said owner by the village; or an owner in violation of any other provision of this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and a new violation shall be deemed to have been committed for each 24 hours of continued non-compliance.
(D) The Village Building Inspector shall have the authority to order an inspection of any residential dwelling covered by this section for the purpose of determining whether or not said dwelling is in compliance with the Code. If it is determined, after any such inspection, that a dwelling is not in compliance, all owners of said dwelling shall be in violation of this section until said dwelling is brought into compliance with this section, and a new violation shall be deemed to have been committed for each 24 hours of continued non-compliance.
(Prior Code, § 9-303) (Ord. 613, passed 1-9-2002)