A.
For purposes of this chapter, any notice required hereunder to be
given to a manager shall be deemed as notice given to the owner.
B.
There shall be a rebuttable presumption that any notice required
to be given to the owner under this chapter shall be received by such
owner if the notice was given to the owner in the manner provided
by this chapter.
C.
A claimed lack of knowledge by the owner of any violation hereunder
cited shall be no defense to license nonrenewal, suspension or revocation
proceedings as long as all notices prerequisite to institution of
such proceedings have been given and deemed received in accordance
with the applicable provisions of this chapter.
It shall be the duty of each owner of a regulated rental unit
to notify the Code Enforcement Officer, in writing, of any change
in ownership of the premises or of the number of regulated rental
units on the premises. It shall be the duty of the owner to notify
the Code Enforcement Officer, in writing, of any increase in the number
of occupants in any regulated rental unit or of the changing of a
dwelling unit from owner-occupied to non-owner-occupied, which thereby
transforms the dwelling into a regulated rental unit for the purposes
of this chapter.
If any regulated rental unit is owned by more than one person,
in any form of joint tenancy, as a partnership, or otherwise, each
person shall be jointly and severally responsible for the duties imposed
under the terms of this chapter and shall be severally subject to
prosecution for the violation of this chapter.
If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof
to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such holding shall
not affect the other provisions or applications of this chapter which
can be given effect without the invalid provision or application,
and, to this end, the provisions of this chapter are declared severable.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances which are inconsistent
herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.
This chapter shall become effective on the 23rd day of July,
2015.
