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Kennett City council discusses enforcing rental-registration ordinance after owner with roughly 150 properties keeps utilities in his name
Summary
City staff described steps to revoke a landlord—ertificate, notify tenants and disconnect utilities if an owner declines inspection; council members discussed amending the ordinance to limit the number of residential utilities an owner may hold in their name and to begin posting tenant notices.
Kennett City Council members and staff spent a large portion of their meeting addressing enforcement of the city—s rental-registration ordinance after staff described a landlord who now appears to control roughly 100—to—150 rental addresses while keeping utilities in his own name, a practice that staff said has blocked inspections.
Council members and staff said the city can start an administrative license-revocation process that will require the owner to be notified and given 20 days to request an appeal; if no appeal is requested or an appeal is denied, tenants would be given a notice (described in the meeting as 60 days, although one participant said 80 days) after which the properties could be deemed uninhabitable and utilities disconnected. Staff said an owner whose rental license is revoked would be barred from re-registering the properties for six months.
The council—s discussion underscored two practical problems: inspectors cannot inspect properties that…
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