(A) Rental registration required.
(1) Rental registration. It shall be unlawful for any person to own and operate one or more rental dwellings within the City of Danville corporate boundaries without having first obtained a certificate for each owned and operated rental dwelling. In the absence of a then current certificate, no rental dwelling may be occupied except by the owner and/or the owner’s immediate family.
(2) Registration renewal. The owner shall keep the one or more certificates current by annually renewing them.
(3) Owner’s responsibility to renew registration. The owner shall be responsible for registering and maintaining the registration of each rental dwelling regardless of whether the city sends the owner any notice or other reminder to do so.
(B) Tenant information. Owners shall be obligated to provide the city with information about their respective tenants upon request by the city.
(C) Rental registration period. Owners shall register and thereafter renew their certificates by no later than February 1 of each year. If an owner or local representative renews a certificate any time after February 1, that renewal certificate shall automatically expire on the following January 31. Further, any renewal of one or more certificates after February 1 shall be deemed late and subject to a late fee as provided in § 163.10(B).
(D) Registration application. An application to register one or more rental dwellings shall be submitted on a form provided by the city or through the city’s electronic portal for rental registration that can be found on the city’s website. Each application shall include the following:
(1) Owner’s name.
(2) Owner’s business address, landline or cellular telephone number, and e-mail address, if any.
(3) Number of rental dwellings being registered and/or renewed.
(4) The street number and name for each rental dwelling being registered.
(5) In the case of a building that includes two or more rental dwellings (e.g., a duplex, triplex, apartment building), the number of rental dwellings in the said building and the address of the building.
(6) The name, address, landline or cellular telephone number, and e-mail address of the owner’s local representative, if any, for each rental dwelling. If an owner has engaged one local representative for all the owner’s rental dwellings, the owner need provide the information regarding the local representative only once. The owner shall update any changes in the local representative or the current local representative’s contact information.
(7) The name, street address, landline or cellular telephone number, and email address, if any, of the contract buyer, if applicable. (Note, contract buyers shall be deemed tenants for purposes of this chapter.)
(8) Such other information as the city may, from time to time, reasonably request.
(9) If an owner acquires one or more rental dwellings since the prior registration period, the owner shall register the newly acquired property within 30 days of acquisition.
(10) When renewing a certificate, the owner need only update the information provided in the most recent prior registration or renewal, as the case may be.
(E) Rental registration certificate. The city shall issue a certificate for each rental dwelling registered. In those cases where an owner registers multiple rental dwellings, the city may elect to issue a single certificate that either lists all the rental dwellings registered on the face of the certification or which attaches to the certificate one or more pages listing the rental dwellings so registered.
(F) Registration and renewal fees. The annual fee for registering a rental dwelling and for renewing a certificate shall be $30 each rental dwelling.
(G) A certificate shall not be issued to an owner who owes any taxes, fees, fines, or reimbursable expenses to the city until such taxes, fees, fines or reimbursable expenses are paid in full.
(Ord. 9467, passed 2-6-24)