The secretary shall have the following duties upon the instruction of the board:
A. Determination of Interested Parties. The secretary shall obtain a title report. The report of interested parties shall list all persons on the records of the county recorder as having an ownership interest or liens or encumbrances or other interests in the real property on which the building is located, in addition to any other interested party known to the secretary.
B. Contact with Tenants. The secretary may contact the tenants of any building during or after review. Such contact may be in person or by mail or by both. The secretary may contract with other persons or organizations to carry out this activity. During such contact, the tenants shall be informed of the principal provisions of REAP, of the mechanism for voluntary payment into the escrow account by tenants of untenantable residential units where the building is accepted into REAP, and of their legal rights with respect to eviction under the provisions of this article.
The specific responses of tenants and any information in a form which is identifiable to any individual tenant shall not be a public record and shall not be disclosed to the landlord, any interested party, or the general public.
C. REAP Trust Fund. The secretary shall establish and maintain the REAP trust fund in accordance with the provisions of this article. (Prior code § 49.14.1405)