(A) No person shall occupy or maintain a rental unit within the city unless in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(B) This chapter applies to rental units located within the city, including governmental or public agencies acting as landlords, but shall not apply to, the following arrangements unless the arrangements are created to avoid the application of this chapter;
(1) Occupancy in "group homes" as that term is defined in the zoning ordinance.
(2) Occupancy in federally subsidized and owned housing complexes which have multiple on-site units and which are owned and maintained by the federal government or a local housing authority, or scattered site Section 8 housing units administered by a local housing authority.
(3) Occupancy by the purchaser of a dwelling unit under a recorded contract of sale.
(4) Transient occupancy in hotel, motel or other similar lodgings.
(5) Owners who reside in a single-family dwelling unit but who wish to lease to individuals or a family while they are absent from the city for short periods of time, not to exceed one year, and who intend to return to their single-family dwelling unit at the expiration of the lease period.
(6) Owners who occupy the premises and rent to no more than two occupants.
(Ord. 6424, passed 6-12-06) Penalty, see § 160.99