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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Date: 06/18/2012 Item No.: 9.b Department Approval City Manager Approval Consider Change to Rental Registration Ordinance Item Description: 1.0B ACKGROUND 1 2 Staff is requesting that the City Council consider adding a section to Section 907.06 - Registration 3 Exemptions of the Residential Rental Property Registration Ordinance that would exempt Group 4 Homes licensed by the State of Minnesota from the rental registration requirement of the 5 Residential Rental Property Ordinance. Additionally, staff requests that the word “notarized” be 6 added to clarify that an affidavit filed by someone renting to a relative must be notarized. Finally, 7 staff requests that the last sentence in the current Section 1 be moved to its own section. 8 On March 17, 2008, the City Council approved an Ordinance requiring the registration of rental 9 properties of 1 to 4 units. In the Ordinance, Section 907.06.1 – Registration Exemptions was 10 included to exempt properties rented to relatives. As currently written, the exemption section does 11 not include Group Homes licensed by the State of Minnesota. When this omission came to the 12 attention of the Community Development Director, an administrative decision was made to exempt 13 Group Homes licensed by the State of Minnesota from the rental registration requirement of the 14 Rental Registration Ordinance. 15 Additionally, it was pointed out that adding the word “notarized” would clarify to those reading the 16 ordinance that affidavits must be notarized. 17 With regard to the Section 907.06 - Registration Exemptions, staff requests the addition of a 18 section that exempts Group Homes licensed by the State of Minnesota, the addition of the word 19 “notarized,” and a section to clarify that if an exemption is no longer applicable and a property is a 20 rental, the property owner must register the property within 30 days: 21 22 wner of a rental dwelling unit is exempted 907.06. Registration Exemptions. 1. The o 23 from the registration requirement of this Chapter if all renters residing in the rental 24 property are related to the owner as a parent, child, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, 25 step-parent, step-child, step-grandparent, or step-grandchild and the owner files an 26 notarized affidavit with the City stating that each of the renters are one of these 27 relations.The owner must notify the City in writing within 30 days if the exemption 28 described in this Chapter is lost because the renters are not related to the owner as 29 one of the above-referenced relations. 30 31 Page 1 of 2