Faribault, Minn., Code of Ordinances ch. 7, art. V § 7-40

(a) Local agent required. If the owner does not reside in any of the following Minnesota counties: Blue Earth, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Hennepin, Le Sueur, Mower, Nicollet, Olmsted, Ramsey, Rice, Scott, Sibley, Steele, Wabasha, Waseca, Washington, then the owner must provide the city with a local agent that resides within one of the aforementioned counties and who is responsible for maintenance and operation of the rental dwelling and who is legally constituted and empowered to receive service and orders on behalf of the owner and to institute remedial action to effect such orders. The city shall be notified in writing of any change of agent by the owner of the rental dwelling.
(b) Owner identification. All partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies or other recognized business associations that own a rental dwelling to be licensed under this article shall submit, upon request of the compliance official or the designee(s), the name and address of all partners, shareholders or interest holders. If requested by the compliance official or the designee(s), information regarding the names and addresses of all partners, shareholders or interest holders must be submitted in a sworn affidavit to the city.
(c) Responsibility for acts of manager, operator, or agent. Licensees are responsible for the acts or omissions of their managers, operators, agents, or other authorized representatives.
(d) Conformance to laws. No rental license shall be issued, renewed or allowed to be maintained by the owner unless the rental dwelling conforms to all applicable federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations.
(e) License inspection required. No rental license shall be issued, renewed or allowed to be maintained unless the owner agrees in the owner's application to permit inspections pursuant to this article.
(f) Posting and production of license. Every licensee of a rental dwelling with four (4) or more units, shall conspicuously post the current rental license certificate issued by the city in the main entryway or other conspicuous location. An owner or agent of a rental dwelling must always produce a copy of the current rental license certificate for a rental dwelling upon the request from a tenant, prospective tenant, police officer or compliance official.
(g) Occupancy register required. Every licensee shall keep, or cause to be kept, a current register of occupancy for each dwelling unit that provides the following information:
(1) Dwelling unit address.
(2) Number of bedrooms in dwelling unit and the maximum number of occupants.
(3) Legal names and date of birth of adult occupants and number of persons under eighteen (18) years of age currently occupying the dwelling units.
(4) Dates renters occupied and vacated dwelling units.
(5) A chronological list of complaints and requests for repair by dwelling unit occupants related to this article, and all corrections made in response to such requests and complaints.
Such a register shall be made available for viewing or copying by the City of Faribault at all reasonable times.
(h) Occupancy standards. The maximum permissible occupancy of a rental dwelling unit must be determined by applying one of the two (2) standards set forth in paragraphs (1) and (2) below. Whichever standard allows the greatest number of occupants for a given rental dwelling will be the governing standard for that dwelling.
(1) Square footage standard: Every bedroom shall contain not less than seventy (70) square feet and every bedroom occupied by more than one person shall contain not less than fifty (50) square feet of floor area for each occupant thereof.
(2) Headcount standard: Total number of occupants in the rental dwelling may not exceed two (2) times the number of legal bedrooms plus one.
(3) A "legal bedroom" is "Any room or space used or intended to be used for sleeping purposes in either a dwelling or sleeping unit." Section 7-21 (adopting the 2018 Edition of the International Property Maintenance Code (IPMC), as the Property Maintenance Code of the City of Faribault); Sec. 202, 2018 IPMC (defining bedroom).
(4) In applying either standard (1) or (2), occupants under the age of two (2) years shall not be included in the calculations.
(i) License not transferable. The rental license issued pursuant to this article is for the property owner and the premises named on the approved license application. No transfer of a license is permitted from place to place or from the owner to another person or entity without complying with the requirements of an original application, except in the case in which an existing licensee is merely changing a business or corporate name or in the case in which an existing noncorporate licensee is incorporating and the incorporation does not affect the ownership or control of the property or the rental business.