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Council repeals Moline's crime-free residential rental ordinance; staff to emphasize rental licensing program

Moline City Council (Committee of the Whole) · July 9, 2025
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Summary

Council repealed the crime-free residential rental ordinance after staff and the city attorney explained legal risks and pointed to the city's expanded rental-licensing inspections as the preferred enforcement tool.

Council voted to repeal the city's 2019 "crime-free" residential rental ordinance after the police chief and city attorney described legal and practical problems with the ordinance and explained how the city's rental-licensing and inspection program has largely delivered the ordinance's original goals.

Chief said the police department initially implemented the crime-free framework in 2020 but that the building and inspection division's more recent rental-licensing…

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