Title
Rental Unit Licenses - For the purpose of clarifying who is eligible to apply for a rental unit license; providing certain definitions; and generally relating to rental licenses.
Body
CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis
Ordinance 39-21
Introduced by: Alderwoman Tierney
Co-sponsored by:
Referred to
Economic Matters Committee
90 day Rule:___________
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Rental Unit Licenses
FOR the purpose of clarifying who is eligible to apply for a rental unit license; providing certain definitions; and generally relating to rental licenses.
BY repealing and reenacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2022 Edition
17.44.110
SECTION I: BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Code of the City of Annapolis shall be amended to read as follows:
Title 17 - BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION
Chapter 17.44 - RENTAL UNIT LICENSES
17.44.110 Definitions.
A. "Applicant" means a person who executes the forms required for obtaining a rental operating license pursuant to this chapter.
B. "Licensee" means a person who obtains a rental operating license from the City.
C. "Local Property Manager" means a person who acts as the legally authorized representative and agent of a licensee and who has a primary residence or office at a physical location in the City.
D. "Owner" OR "PERSON" means any person AN INDIVIDUAL who alone, jointly, or severally with other individuals holds legal or equitable title to any premises in their own names and shall not include A corporate or business entitY of any type.
E. "Person" means an individual or any legal entity in which an individual has an ownership or beneficial interest.
FE. "Premises" means only those types of dwellings, dwelling units, bed and breakfast homes, hotels, motels, and inns listed in Section 17.44.010 that are required to be licensed pursuant to this chapter.
GF. "Rental operating license" means a license required pursuant to Section 17.44.010 for a premises.
HG. "Tenant" means a person who pays rent or other consideration for the temporary use or occupation of another's premises under a lease or similar arrangement.
IH. "Unlicensed premises" means a premises that is required to be licensed pursuant to Section 17.44.010, but for which a valid rental operating license has not been obtained or renewed.
JI. For purposes of this chapter, any terms not defined in this section shall have the meanings specified in Chapters 17.04 and 17.40.
SECTION II: AND BE IT FURTHER ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that this ordinance shall take effect from the date of its passage.
Explanation:
UPPERCASE indicates matter added to existing law.
Strikethrough indicates matter stricken from existing law.
Underlining indicates amendments.