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Rock Island staff propose rewrite of rental registration: inspections, fines and tenant notices
Summary
City staff proposed a substantive update to Rock Island’s rental registration ordinance to clarify licensing, revise fines, require posting of licenses for tenants and set a minimum five-year inspection cycle while preserving the city’s right to inspect more often.
City staff presented proposed updates to Rock Island’s rental registration ordinance that would clarify licensing, fine structures and inspection practices and require rental license posting for tenant transparency.
A city staff member said the program has run since 2004 and stressed the ordinance’s scale: "As you can see, about 37%, so over a third of our housing stock here in the city, is rental property," and noted inspections rose from 1,030 in 2023 to 1,711 in 2024.
The draft ordinance would consolidate short-term rental rules with long-term rental regulation, add language to treat unrecorded "rent-to-own" arrangements as subject to registration, and set clearer categories for fines tied to violations pulled from the…
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