55-10 Amend Chpt 1306, Property Maintenance & Safety Code

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(d) Required licenses.. (1) A housing license is required for each dwelling unit in a struc- ture.. (2) A vacant property license is required for each vacant residen- tial or commercial structure.. (3) The Building Commissioner or his or her designee (as used in this section, "Building Commissioner") shall determine at his or her sole discretion the number of dwelling or commercial units existing within a structure. (e) Issuance.. The Building Commissioner shall issue the applicable li- cense to each applicant meeting the requirements of this chapter. (f) Scope. A license authorizes a licensee to rent a dwelling unit or a por- tion of a dwelling unit or permits a property to be maintained in a va- cant status. Section 2. That Section 1306.44 of the Lakewood Codified Ordinances, License Appli- cation Fonn and Fee, currently reading as follows: 1306.44 LICENSE APPLICATION FORM AND FEE. (a) Every application for a housing license shall be on a form approved by the official charged with the enforcement of this Code. It shall state the name and address of the applicant, the nature and extent of his interest in the building for which the license is required, the name and address of the owner of the building, the location of the building the number of looms therein, the number of dwelling units therein, the number of rooming units therein and such other information as may be required by the official chazged with the enforcement of the Code. (b) No housing license shall be issued unless the applicant tenders, on the application form identified in subsection (a), the full names of all adult tenants and the number of minor tenants living in the residential prop- erty as of the date the application is tendered to the City and, if applica- ble, the dwelling unit numbers in which the tenants reside.. (c) The housing license fees shall be as follows: owner occupied condo- minium units -two dollars ($2.00); nonowner-occupied condominium units -six dollars ($6.00); owner-occupied three-family dwellings - twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per dwelling unit or rooming unit; all non owner-occupied one and two family dwellings -seventy five dollazs ($75.00) per dwelling unit or rooming unit; all other structures requir- ing housing licenses pursuant to Section 1306.43 -thirty dollazs ($30.00) per dwelling unit or rooming unit. (d) For all other structures requiring housing licenses pursuant to Section 1306..43, the housing license fee shall be as follows thirty-five dollars ($35.00) per dwelling unit or rooming unit beginning Mazch 1, 2007 - forty dollars ($40.00) per dwelling unit or rooming unit beginning