(A) Short-term rental lodging houses for transient overnight occupancy use, or the subletting of any residence, including any accessory buildings, pools, gazebos, sheds of any type or for any purpose, hot tubs or any other type of accessory to the residence, for less than 30 consecutive days or any automobile house trailers; or motels, hotels, nursing homes, boardinghouses, hospital patient housing, or rooming, is expressly prohibited in the City of Palos Heights.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to let, or to sublet, to another for use or occupancy any residential rental property without a current and valid city-issued certificate of compliance.
(C) It is unlawful for any person to operate, maintain, or offer to rent or sublet, a residential rental property without first obtaining a certificate of compliance from the city.
(D) It is unlawful for any person to occupy a residential rental property, or to sublet any residence, that does not have a valid city-issued certificate of compliance.
(E) It is unlawful to allow any person to occupy, or sublet, a residential rental property, that does not have a valid city-issued certificate of compliance.
(F) It is unlawful for any person to violate any provision of this chapter. The city is hereby authorized to seek injunctive or any other equitable relief permitted it, in addition to, or instead of, any other form of legal remedy available to it.
(Ord. O-28-16, passed 11-1-16; Am. Ord. O-12-22, passed 8-2-22)