Streamwood Title 3 Ch. 14 Rental Residential Property § 3-14-4

A. Application Requirements: Each applicant for a license to maintain a residential property for the purpose of renting it to others shall file a written application with the code official stating:


1. The full legal name, address, and home and work telephone number of every rental residential property owner and property agent, where applicable.


2. If the residential property is held in a trust, the name, address and phone number of the trustee and each beneficial interest holder;


3. The address of the rental residential property;


4. The number of dwelling units within the rental property;


5. The names and phone numbers of each tenant;


6. The name, address and phone number of any management company retained as property agent for the property;


7. The name, address and twenty four (24) hour phone number or numbers of a responsible person who, in emergency situations, will be available on a twenty four (24) hour basis and who has the authority to make repairs as needed; and


8. The square footage designated for living and sleeping purposes including individual room sizes as stipulated by the village's property maintenance code, as amended.


B. Application Fee: Each application for a new license or a renewal of an existing license shall be accompanied by a fee of one hundred fifty-five dollars ($155.00) for each rental residential unit inspection, provided, however, for multi-family dwelling structures containing ten (10) or more dwelling units which are under single ownership, the inspection fee shall be one hundred fifty-five dollars ($155.00) for the first unit inspected and fifty dollars ($50.00) for each additional unit inspected within the structure. All such fees shall be payable at the Village of Streamwood Community Development Department.


C. Due Date; Late Fee: All license fees shall be due and payable on or before December 1 of each calendar year. All licenses shall expire on December 31 of each calendar year. License fees that remain unpaid after December 31 shall be assessed a late payment fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) in addition to the license fee. The late payment fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) shall be increased by double every thirty (30) days that the license fee and late payment fees remain unpaid, up to a maximum of seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00).


D. Alterations Or Repairs: No structural, mechanical, electrical or plumbing alterations or repairs, or any remodeling, shall be made to the units in a licensed property unless all zoning and building code requirements have been met.


E. Record Of Tenant Names: A copy of the record of tenant names required under subsection 3-14-9A of this chapter shall be filed with the license application.


F. Change In Ownership: Whenever there is a change in the ownership or in the occupancy of a rental residential property or the owner's property agent, the owners shall within thirty (30) days of such changes, file an updated written notice with the code official indicating such changes.


G. Not Transferrable: A license or a temporary certificate for a rental residential property cannot be transferred to another rental residential property, nor to a succeeding owner.


H. Additional Registration Requirements: In addition to all other application requirements as may be provided by this chapter, every license application or renewal application, for rental residential property by an owner residing outside of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake or McHenry Counties, Illinois, shall include the name, street address and telephone number of a natural person twenty one (21) years of age or older, and designated by the nonresident owner as that owner's property agent for receiving notices of code violations and for receiving service of process in any court proceeding or administrative hearing proceeding for rental residential property owned by the nonresident owner. Said designated agent shall reside in Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake or McHenry Counties, Illinois. (Ord. 2006-12, 3-16-2006; amd. Ord. 2009-26, 10-15-2009; Ord. 2011-29, 11-17-2011; Ord. 2015-23, 10-1-2015, eff. 1-1-2016; Ord. 2025-22, 12-4-2025)