Rental housing shall be inspected upon receipt of a complaint and as deemed necessary by the Town Manager to enforce this chapter. Any person may make a complaint about the condition of a rental property.
Absent violations of this chapter or Town Code, renewal applications shall be approved automatically upon submittal of the application and payment of the required fee. The rental housing license shall be valid for a period of two years unless otherwise revoked or rescinded.
The person to whom any rental housing license is issued shall display it in the lobby, vestibule, rental office or other prominent public place on the premises for which the license is issued during the entire period it is in effect. A telephone number where the operator or representative thereof may, in fact, be reached at all times shall be included on the license. In the case of a single-family dwelling rental unit, it is sufficient if a copy of the license is provided the tenant.
Operation of rental housing without a rental housing license shall be a municipal infraction subject to a fine of up to $100. Each day and each living unit shall constitute a separate occurrence.
Where a person, rather than comply with an order of the Town Manager or Board of Rental Housing Appeals, chooses to cease to conduct or operate rental housing, he shall give any tenant occupying the premises in question 60 days' written notice to vacate the premises, the period to begin on the first day of the month following service of the notice. A copy of the notice must be delivered to the Town Manager. No penalty will be imposed during the sixty-day period that tenants have to vacate the facility, provided that the holder of the license to conduct or operate the rental housing relinquishes it and submits it to the Town Manager.