(a) Each owner of a rental housing property within the City shall register each rental housing property with the designated city official within thirty days of the effective date of this chapter and shall renew the registration annually. Each new owner of a rental housing property within the City shall make application for a registration with the Service Department within thirty days after the date of acquiring ownership of a rental housing property. If an owner fails to timely register a rental housing property, the registration fee shall be doubled. The owner shall also be subject to the penalty provisions set forth below.
(b) The owner, operator and/or agent of any rental housing property within the City shall, upon a form provided therefore by the Building Inspector and available at his or her office, register the premises by designating thereon the name and address of the owner, operator, and the name and address of an agent in charge of the premises residing in the Municipality who may be the owner, operator, lessor or agent. If there shall be more than one person as the owner, operator and/or agent, then a separate or single combined registration may be filed, as such persons may elect.
(c) The owner, operator, and/or agent of any rental housing property within the City shall, upon a form provided therefor by the Building Inspector and available at his or her office, register each tenant of each rental housing property within the dwelling structure.
(Ord. 2006-11. Passed 4-10-06; Ord. 2018-4. Passed 1-22-18; Ord. 2024-11. Passed 3-25-24.)