(a) The purposes of this chapter are to ensure life safety and property maintenance standards are maintained by establishing residential rental housing registration; to impose certain responsibilities and duties upon owners and operators; to authorize and establish procedures for the interior and exterior inspection of rental housing properties; to provide for the issuance of a rental housing registration; to establish a fee schedule and to fix penalties for violations of this chapter.
(b) No owner, agent or person in charge of any rental dwelling unit, which is used, or designed, or intended to be used, as a single or multiple dwelling, shall rent, lease, or provide for other compensation including work, such structure or any part thereof for residential occupancy unless the owner thereof obtains a rental housing registration issued by the designated City official for such structure.
(c) This Chapter does not apply to licensed rest homes, convalescent care facilities, licensed group homes, nursing homes, hotels, motels, or single-family owner-occupied properties being sold land contract.
(Ord. 5836-19. Passed 12-16-19.)