Dearborn Heights — Ch. 7 Art. IX Div. 10 Registration and Inspection of All Rental Dwellings § 7-620

(a) Registry of rental dwelling required. All rental dwellings shall be registered with the building department. If the owner does not reside within thirty (30) miles of the city, he or she shall designate a responsible local agent who shall be responsible for operating such dwelling in compliance with the law, including this article. All official notices may be served on the responsible agent, and any notice so served shall be deemed to have been served upon the owner of record. Each owner or responsible local agent shall maintain a current list of the number of occupants of each rental dwelling for which he or she is responsible. A rental unit certificate of compliance shall not be issued if the registration provisions of this article are not complied with.
(b) Time to register existing rental dwellings. All rental dwellings existing as of the effective date of this article shall be registered no later than sixty (60) days after the effective date of this article. The city shall order registration prior to that date for any dwelling cited in a notice required by the building code or property maintenance code. Failure to comply with such an order is a violation of this article.
(c) Registry of new rental dwellings. The owner of a new rental dwelling or of any dwelling newly converted to a rental dwelling shall register the rental dwelling prior to allowing occupancy of any new rental units.
(d) Change in register information. The owner of rental dwellings already registered with the city or his responsible local agent shall register within sixty (60) days after any change occurs in register information. A new owner of a registered dwelling shall register the dwelling within sixty (60) days of assuming ownership.
(e) Register of rental dwellings. Application for registration shall be made in such form and in accordance with such instructions as may be provided by the building department director and shall include:
(1) The address of the rental dwelling.
(2) The number of dwelling units, the number of rooming units and the number of hotel units in the dwelling.
(3) The name, residence address, business address, business phone number and personal phone number of the owner.
(4) The name, residence address, business address, business phone number and personal phone number of the manager and responsible local agent designated by the owner.
(5) The address where the owner or responsible local agent will accept notices or orders from the city.
(f) Inaccurate or incomplete register information. It shall be a violation of this article for an owner or a responsible local agent to provide inaccurate information for the registration of rental dwellings or to fail to provide information required by the city under subsection (e) of this section. In those cases in which the owner or responsible local agent is not a natural person, the information required for the registration shall be provided for the organization owning the rental dwelling and for the president, general manager or other chief executive officers of the organization. Where more than one natural person has an ownership interest, the required information shall be provided for each owner.