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Council approves rental registry, inspection rules and database for repeat offenders
Summary
The Terre Haute City Council approved General Ordinance 4-20-25 on second reading, creating a rental property registration and inspection program and a centralized database to track rental addresses and inspection history.
The Terre Haute City Council approved General Ordinance 4-20-25 on second reading, creating a rental property registration and inspection program intended to build a citywide database of rental addresses and inspection history.
The ordinance, which staff reorganized from Chapter 10 into a new registries division in Chapter 4 (Article 27), redefines "major violation" to mean a "major deficiency, or significant noncompliance with applicable code requirements," clarifies that a formal violation generally occurs only after a property owner fails to correct noncompliant conditions within a provided timeline, and removes prior warrant-to-enter language.
Marcus, the city staff presenter, said the revised language was intended to avoid immediately classifying every code finding as a violation. "We redefined a…
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