Ordinance - #24-15 - 11/26/2024 - Laserfiche WebLink

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1 Apartment means a community, complex or building having a common owner and containing at 2 least one rental dwelling unit. 3 City means the City of Ramsey. 4 City approved inspector's report or inspection report means a rental dwelling inspection report 5 prepared and signed by the city's rental housing inspector or inspector contracted by the city to conduct an 6 inspection and provide a report to the city. 7 City administrator means the city administrator of the City of Ramsey, or designee. 8 Dwelling means a building or one or more portions of a building occupied or intended to be 9 occupied for residential purposes of a continued nature. 10 Let for occupancy or to let or to rent means to permit possession or occupancy of a dwelling or 11 rental dwelling unit by a person who is not the legal owner of record thereof, pursuant to the terms of a 12 written or unwritten lease. 13 Manager means any person who has charge, care or control of a dwelling that is required to be 14 licensed under this chapter. 15 Operate means to charge a rental charge, fee or other form of monetary or non -monetary 16 compensation for the use of a rental dwelling unit. 17 Occupant means any person occupying, living, or sleeping or having possession of a space within 18 any dwelling. 19 Owner or licensee means any person having a legal or equitable interest in a dwelling that is 20 required to be licensed under this chapter as recorded in the official state, county or city records as 21 holding title to the property or otherwise having control of the property. 22 Person may be an individual, corporation, firm, association, company, partnership, organization or 23 any other group acting as a unit. 24 Rental dwelling means any dwelling used for residential occupancy by one or more persons who are 25 not the owner or a member of the owner's immediate family. 26 Rental dwelling license means a certificate issued by the city administrator or designee after the 27 rental dwelling or rental dwelling unit has passed a rental dwelling inspection. 28 Rental dwelling unit means any room or rooms, or space, in any rental dwelling designed or used for 29 residential occupancy by one or more persons who are not the owner or the owner's qualifying relative. 30 Qualifying relative is defined as: parent, stepparent, child, stepchild, grandparent, grandchild, brother, 31 sister, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece. This relationship may be either by blood or by marriage. 32 Short term rental (STR) means a dwelling unit, offered to the public in exchange for money, goods 33 or services, on a nightly or weekly basis for not more than 30 consecutive days. 34 Tenant means any person occupying a dwelling unit or having possession of a space within a 35 dwelling unit who pays, in any manner, for the right to occupy such space or who has a leasehold right to 36 occupy the dwelling unit. 37 (Ord. No. 21-17, § 2, 8-24-2021; Ord. No. 23-16, 9-12-2023) 38 Secs. 26-616--26-644. Reserved. 39 40 Sec. 26-645. License required. DIVISION 2. LICENSE Ordinance #24-15 Page 2 of 12