It is the purpose of this Chapter to provide for effective monitoring
and routine inspection of vacant buildings and structures that, due
to Housing Code violations, may endanger the life, limb, health, property,
safety or welfare of the general public and this Chapter shall apply
to all residential structures that have been vacant for more than
six (6) months and that are subject to Housing Code violations. It
is also the purpose of this Chapter to provide for effective monitoring
and routine inspection of all rental properties in the City so as
to ensure the safety and welfare of the general public and protect
the rights of property owners and persons renting such properties;
in addition, the City seeks to have adequate contact information for
non-resident owners so that such owners will receive proper notice
of unlawful conditions of the property and nuisance abatement as required
by law.
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Editor's Note: Ord. No. 1030 also set out the existing material
within this Chapter in Articles to allow for better structure with
new material being added.
[R.O. 1993 § 512.020; Ord. No.
740 § 1, 12-16-2002]
The following words and phrases, when used in this Chapter,
shall mean:
A local building, fire, health, property maintenance, nuisance
or other ordinance which contains standards regulating the condition
or maintenance of residential buildings.
Dwellings, including one-family dwellings, two-family dwellings,
attached townhouse dwellings and multiple-family dwellings having
four (4) or less living units (other than university-owned housing,
college fraternities and sororities, hotels or motels and multi-family
dwellings, boarding houses or residential care/assisted living facilities
each having five (5) or more living units), offered for rent or lease
to any person who otherwise qualifies for an occupancy permit and
who is not the owner of record of said property.
[Ord. No. 1030, 12-16-2019]
