(A)
The Code Enforcement Officer shall inspect long-term rental dwellings and short-term rentals for which licenses are required hereunder whenever the Code Enforcement Officer has probable cause to believe that a violation of this chapter, the city property maintenance code, nuisance code, criminal nuisance ordinance, building code, fire code, or electrical code exists. The Code Enforcement Officer shall conduct these inspections to:
(1) Determine whether the long-term rental dwelling or short-term rental complies with all provisions of the applicable city property maintenance code and/or other applicable city ordinances.
(2) Determine whether the long-term rental dwelling or short-term rental is in violation of the criminal nuisance ordinance, or other city ordinance.
(3) Identify long-term rental dwellings short-term rentals that are unlicensed or unregistered.
(B) The Code Enforcement Officer or any other designated city employee shall periodically inspect city records with respect to all long-term rental dwellings and short-term rentals for which licenses are required hereunder to:
(1) Determine whether the owner of the licensed premises is delinquent in paying property taxes or any other assessment.
(2) Identify long-term rental dwellings or short-term rentals with police and/or fire/EMS runs relating to drug offenses, prostitution, crimes of force or violence or loud and disorderly disturbances.
(C) The following shall apply to all interior inspections conducted pursuant this chapter:
(1) The Code Enforcement Officer or his or her designee shall make a minimum of one attempt to contact the owner of the long-term rental dwelling or host of the short-term rental to obtain consent for the inspection, and shall contact the tenant of any occupied unit to obtain consent for the inspection.
(2) The Code Enforcement Officer or his or her designee may enter a unit and the common areas used by the tenant in that unit at the tenant’s invitation without the consent of the owner.
(3) If the Code Enforcement Officer or his or her designee is unable to obtain consent for an interior inspection, the city shall not conduct an interior inspection without first applying to a court of competent jurisdiction and receiving an administrative warrant or other relief necessary to obtain legal access to the interior of the rental dwelling or short-term rental.
(Ord. 12-03, passed 1-18-2012; Ord. 15-12, passed 12-2-2015; Ord. 19-09, passed 8-7-2019)
Cross-reference:
Nuisances, see Chapter 90