(A) Fitness. No owner or other person shall occupy or let to another person any dwelling or dwelling unit unless it and the premises are clean, sanitary, fit for human occupancy, and comply with all applicable legal requirements of the state and the village.
(B) Public area. Every owner of a dwelling containing two or more dwelling units shall maintain in a clean and sanitary condition the shared or public area of the dwelling and premises thereof.
(C) Private area. Every occupant of a dwelling or dwelling unit shall maintain in a clean and sanitary condition that part or those parts of the dwelling, dwelling unit and premises thereof that he or she occupies and controls.
(D) Screens, storm windows and doors. The owner of a dwelling unit shall be responsible for providing and handling all screens and double or storm doors and windows whenever the same are required under the provisions of this subchapter or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto, except where there is a written agreement between the owner and occupant that provides otherwise. In the absence of such an agreement, maintenance or replacement of screens, storm doors and windows, once installed in any one season becomes the responsibility of the occupant. The occupant's responsibility shall be exclusive to his or her dwelling unit.
(E) Stored materials; dwelling or dwelling unit. No occupant of a dwelling or dwelling unit shall accumulate rubbish, boxes, lumber, scrap metal, or any other materials in such a manner that may provide a rat harborage in or about any dwelling or dwelling unit. Stored materials shall be stacked neatly in piles.
(F) Stored materials; multiple dwelling units. No owner of a dwelling containing three or more dwelling units shall accumulate or permit the accumulation of rubbish, boxes, lumber, scrap metal, or any other materials in such a manner that may provide a rat harborage in or about the shared or public areas of a dwelling or its premises. Materials stored by the owner or permitted to be stored by the owner shall be stacked neatly in piles.
(G) Transfer of cited property. It is unlawful for the owner of any dwelling unit who has received compliance orders or upon whom a notice of violation has been served, to sell, transfer, mortgage, lease or otherwise dispose of to another party the so cited property until the provisions of the compliance order or notice of violation have been complied with, or until such owner shall first furnish to the grantee, mortgagor or lessee a true copy of any compliance or notice of violation, issued by the Police and Public Safety/Health and Property Chairperson and shall furnish to the Police and Public Safety/Health and Property Chairperson a signed and notarized statement from grantees, transferee, mortgagor, or lessee, acknowledging the receipt of such compliance order or notice of violation and fully accepting the responsibility without condition for making the corrections or repairs required by such compliance order or notice of violation.
(H) Parking lot maintenance. All driveways and parking spaces for multi-family dwellings or lots containing two or more units shall be kept free of snow, ice, mud, or other debris at all times to lessen or avoid congestion on the public streets. All off-street parking areas shall be kept in condition as per the standards of the Village of Ramsey Code of Ordinances. Snow removed from an off- street parking lot(s) shall not be piled on the public right-of-way.
(Ord. 20-564, passed 5-4-2020)