Wood Dale ARTICLE XVI RESIDENTIAL RENTAL PROPERTY § 6.1604

A. It is unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other legal entity to operate, maintain or offer to rent within the City of Wood Dale a residential rental property or property used for lodging accommodation for which remuneration or compensation is received by the property owner or a representative of the property owner, including short-term rental, or other similar sharing of residential accommodations for gain or profit, whether vacant or not, without first applying for a residential rental property registration, or having secured and maintained such registration as provided in this article. Application for a residential rental registration shall serve as temporary authority to operate as a residential rental property, if authorized by the Code Official, pending inspection and full registration.


B. It is unlawful for a person to occupy a residential rental property, or for any owner or property agent to allow anyone to occupy as residential rental property a property or unit thereof which is not registered or which is without temporary authority to operate as same as provided in this article.


C. It is unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other legal entity to offer for rent or to occupy any vacant dwelling unit or any dwelling unit that becomes vacant in a residential rental property which is not registered or for which a registration is revoked or is under suspension.


D. This article shall not apply to the following structures, unless said property is also being used to provide temporary lodging or accommodation, short-term rental, or other similar sharing of residential accommodations for gain or profit:


1. Owner occupied residential dwelling units, unless said unit is also being used to provide temporary lodging or accommodation, short-term rental, or other similar sharing of residential accommodations for gain or profit;


2. Residential buildings or dwelling units which are vacant and which are not intended to be let for rent;


3. Hotels, motels, and other structures which rent rooms to occupants which are primarily transient in nature;


4. Dwellings, buildings, structures and uses registered and inspected by the State or the Federal government, including, but not limited to, nursing homes, retirement centers, rest homes, etc.;


5. Dwellings, buildings, structures and uses owned by other governmental agencies and public housing authorities.


E. A registration or a temporary allowance for use as a residential rental property cannot be transferred to another residential rental property nor a succeeding owner. (Ord. O-07-001, 1-4-2007; amd. Ord. O-20-010, 4-16-2020; Ord. O-22-031, 11-17-2022)