(a) The vendor of the residential property to be conveyed through land installment contract shall apply to the Commissioner of Building Inspection for the Certificate of Property Code Compliance (CPCC). The application shall contain the name, business address and telephone number of the inspector who inspected the residence for the owner. The inspector must be registered with the Commissioner of Building Inspection as provided by this Chapter.
A Certificate of Property Code Compliance inspection shall include an inspection of the electrical, heating, and plumbing systems and building structure (e.g., roof, gutters, siding, etc.) to ensure that the residential property is in a safe, sanitary and habitable condition and meets the Property Maintenance Code (PMC) of the State of Ohio. Any Certificate of Property Code Compliance Inspection Report shall be on the form provided by the City of Toledo. Minimally, the Certificate of Property Code Compliance Inspection Report shall list individual violations and a rough estimate of the cost to cure each violation or deficiency, signed by a Registered Inspector. The Commissioner of Building Inspection may, at his or her discretion, accept alternative inspection report forms. The Certificate of Property Code Compliance Inspection Report shall be completed and filed with the Commissioner of Building Inspection within thirty (30) days of the date of application.
(b) A Temporary Certificate of Property Code Compliance shall provide for a ninety (90) day period to complete the repairs for any code violation or deficiency identified in the Certificate of Property Code Compliance Inspection Report. The application for the Temporary Certificate of Property Code Compliance shall be on a form provided by the City of Toledo and identify the individual violations and a rough estimate of the cost to cure each violation or deficiency, and the responsible party to the land installment contract who is responsible to cure each violation or deficiency. Following review and acceptance by the Commissioner of Building Inspection, the Commissioner of Building Inspection will issue a Temporary Certificate of Property Code Compliance. The vendor will file another Certificate of Property Code Compliance Inspection Report with the Commissioner of Building Inspection within ninety (90) days of the date of issuance of the Temporary Certificate of Property Code Compliance. The ninety (90) day period may be expanded by one additional 90-day period by the Commissioner of Building Inspection with the filing of another application for a Temporary Certificate of Property Code Compliance.
(c) The Certificate of Property Code Compliance shall be issued by the Commissioner of Building Inspection to the owner of the real estate interest for the subject real estate, not withstanding the number of units in the real estate, but only upon (1) proof of Property Code Compliance Inspection, as provided herein (e.g. filing of inspection report) for each unit, and either (2) proof of property code compliance or (3) proof of property code correction of any code deficiency identified in the inspection report.
(d) The Certificate of Property Code Compliance shall expire three (3) years after the date of issuance. However, the Certificate of Property Code Compliance may be voided by the Commissioner of Building Inspection after an investigation and upon proof that the residential property has been fire damaged, vandalized, or house-stripped, or becomes structurally unsound or uninhabitable or in some other way no longer meets the Property Maintenance Code of the State of Ohio.
(e) Denial or voiding of the Certificate of Property Code Compliance may be appealed to the Board of Nuisance Abatement/Housing Appeals pursuant to provisions in T.M.C. Chapter 1726.
(f) Accepted Certificate of Property Code Compliance Inspection Reports - in addition to the Certificate of Property Code Compliance Inspection Reports authorized by this section, any inspection conducted by a "Registered Inspector" as defined herein may be accepted as complying with this Section, pursuant to determination by the Commissioner of Building Inspection.
(g) Code Deficiencies Due to Vendee Conduct - In those cases where the code deficiencies identified in the Certificate of Property Code Compliance Inspection are demonstrated, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Building Inspection or the Commissioner of Code Enforcement, to have been caused by a vendee, the vendor shall cooperate with the Commissioner of Code Enforcement or the Commissioner of Building Inspection in his or her investigation of the matter, including providing information to assist in the identification of the vendee.
(Ord. 137-15. Passed 3-31-15.)