(a) Owners shall have the duties and responsibilities as prescribed in this Code and no owner shall be relieved from any such duty and responsibility nor be entitled to defend against any charge of violation thereof by reason of the fact that a tenant is also responsible therefore and in violation thereof.
(b) Any owner of rental real estate located in the Village and residing outside of the County shall designate a natural person resident of the County as agent for such nonresident owner for the purpose of receiving any and all notices of any violations of laws with relation to the construction, maintenance and/or operation of the rental real estate located thereon.
(c) The owner shall designate a natural person of sound mind over the age of eighteen years as agent as above required and provide the agent's full name, address and telephone number, in writing, to the Building Inspector of the Village. It shall be the further obligation of the owner to notify the Building Inspector in writing of any change in the name, address or telephone number of the agent designated.
(d) The Building Inspector is authorized and directed to secure compliance with the within requirements at any time a nonresident applicant seeks a permit for any purpose for property use in the Village and to seek out nonresident owners of real estate for compliance with the requirements herein.
(e) Failure of a nonresident owner to comply with the designation of resident agent requirements herein within thirty days of receipt of notice from the Building Inspector to comply shall constitute a violation of the requirements of this section and shall constitute a misdemeanor punishable under Section 1309.99.
(f) It shall be unlawful for the owner of any structure or property who has received a compliance order or upon whom a notice of violation has been served to sell, transfer, mortgage, lease or otherwise dispose of such structure or property to another until the provisions of the compliance order or notice of violation has been complied with, or until such owner shall first furnish the grantee, transferee, mortgagee, or lessee a true copy of such compliance order or notice of violation and furnish to the Property Maintenance Officer a notarized statement from said grantee, transferee, mortgagee, or lessee acknowledging the receipt of such compliance order or notice of violation and fully accepting responsibility without condition for making the corrections or repairs required by such compliance order or notice of violation.
(Ord. 2006-20. Passed 9-5-06.)