18-16 Inspection required.The enforcement officer or their delegate shall make inspections of rental units within the city, including hotel and motel rooms which are regularly let to the same tenant(s) for a period of thirty (30) days or more, for the purpose of determining whether a violation of this chapter exists.
Excluded from periodic inspection shall be all owner-occupied dwellings containing one (1) or two (2) rooms which are rented out for compensation and partial unit short term rentals. Also excluded from inspection are university and college dormitories that conduct regular, comprehensive inspection programs and annually certify compliance with the minimum housing standards ordinance to the enforcement agency. Inspections of dwellings and dwelling units other than those that are subject to periodic inspections, or of hospital rooms, hotel and motel rooms or dormitories not subject to periodic inspections as provided for in this section, shall be made only upon complaint or upon request of the owner thereof.
All records, including inspection reports, records of complaints received and investigated, and plans for inspections of rental units, shall be available for public inspection.
(Ord. of 4-12-93; Ord. of 9-11-00; Ord. of 6-27-22)