It is the purpose and intent of the City of Orting, through the adoption of this chapter, to establish a Foreclosure Property Registration Program in order to protect the community from the deterioration, crime, and decline in value in neighborhoods caused by properties in various stages of the foreclosure process, and to identify, regulate, limit, and reduce the number of those properties within the City of Orting. It is the policy and intent of the City to establish a requirement that the lender or other responsible party(ies) of properties that are in the foreclosure process register those properties with the City, as set forth in this chapter, in order to protect the neighborhoods from the negative impacts of absentee ownership and lack of adequate maintenance and security for properties in the foreclosure process. (Ord. 2018-1034, 9-26-2018)