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AttachmentB ORDINANCE # 1361 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 9 BY ADDING CHAPTER 907 TO THE CITY OF ROSEVILLE CITY CODE REGARDING REGISTRATION OF RESIDENTIAL RENTAL PROPERTY OF 1 TO 4 UNITS THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROSEVILLE ORDAINS: Section 1. Chapter 907, hereby titled RESIDENTIAL RENTAL PROPERTY REGISTRATION is hereby created as follows: 907.01. Purpose. The City recognizes a need for an organized registration program of residential rental property with 1 to 4 units within the City in order to identify and quantify small rental units in the City and provide information and a method to enforce minimum standards to meet City and State safety, health, fire and zoning codes within the City and to provide a more efficient system to ensure that the stock of rental property within the City is properly maintained. The City recognizes that the most efficient system to provide information on the rental status of certain residential properties is through the creation of a program requiring the registration of all residential rental property with 1 to 4 units within the City. 907.02. Definitions. 1. The term “residential rental property” means any building, structure, room, enclosure, or mobile home with 1 to 4 units including the real property upon which it is located and which surrounds it, which is rented or offered for rent as living quarters. Residential rental property does not mean on-campus college housing, hospital units, nursing home units, multiple rental property over 4 units or hotels or motels with daily rental units, all of which shall be specifically exempt from registration under this Chapter. 2. The term “unit” means all or a portion of a residential rental property that is arranged, designed, used, or intended to be used as separate living quarters and which is leased to an individual or group. 3. The term “person” includes natural persons as well as business entities, whether one or more. 4. The term “City” means the City of Roseville, or the person or entity designated by the City to administer and enforce this Chapter. 907.03. Registration Requirements. Except as provided in Sections 907.05(1) and 907.06, it is unlawful for any person to hereafter occupy, allow to be occupied, advertise for occupancy, solicit occupants of, or let to another person for occupancy any residential rental property of 1 to 4 units within the City for which an application for registration has not been properly made and filed with the City or after the time that a registration is suspended or Page1