A. The City of Reading Property Maintenance Division shall have the authority to revoke or suspend the housing registration of any dwelling or building that it determines within the reasonable exercise of its discretion to be uninhabitable by humans, and in noncompliance with any state or local code or ordinance adopted, enacted or in effect in and for the City of Reading or has failed an inspection. A housing registration may also be revoked if it is determined that the registration was filed upon material misrepresentations, errors or omissions set forth in the application.
B. The City may revoke a housing registration if the applicant (or in the case of a corporate or similar entity, its owners or affiliates) has a record of chronic codes violations and currently has unresolved codes violations, delinquent property maintenance fees or has any tax delinquency.
C. A notice of a revocation of a housing registration shall set forth the reason for the revocation and shall be provided in writing to the last known owner of record.