AN ORDINANCE relating to termination of residential rental tenancies; requiring compliance with the Rental Registration and Inspection Ordinance before issuing notices to terminate a tenancy; and amending Sections 22.206.160 and 22.214.075 of the Seattle Municipal Code.
Bill Pass and Sherwood Senate. Please read the next agenda item. Agenda Item six Council Vote 119 621 Relating to termination of Residential Rental Tenancies Committee recommends the bill. Task Force Member Herbold. Thank you. This bill is intended to proactively prevent conflict between tenants and landlords around about habitability issues that result in eviction proceedings. The Rental Registration and Inspection Ordinance is the city's main tool to ensure that housing is safe and up to basic maintenance standards, and landlords are required to be registered with the rental registration and inspection program before evicting a tenant per hour just cause eviction ordinance. The Seattle Department of Construction Inspections identified that some landlords were who, as you say, some landlords who had not registered their units under the rental registration inspection ordinance were doing the registration. In those instances, when they were planning on evicting somebody, they were doing that registration actually during the eviction hearing. And the the intent of our of our law was was to make it so that landlords could not evict tenants who were not registered with with the rental agreement registration program. And so this. Was actually a loophole in our ability to ensure that landlords were fulfilling their obligation to to be registered with SDC. So this law would instead require registration in advance of issuing a notice to terminate. Rio is a key tool to shift the Seattle Department of Construction Inspections Enforcement from complaint driven to proactive. Frequent violations are missing or nonfunctional smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, safe handrails and exposed wires. The the focus of the registration program are life safety violations. So, again, this would require in an instance where a landlord failed to have their unit registered with the REO program, it would require the landlord to basically start the eviction process all over again from from step one, rather than giving them the opportunity to register in the middle of the process. Thank you. Councilman Herbold, any other questions or comments? Just a quick. Question, Councilmember. Mosquito. Quick comment. I just want to say thanks to Councilmember Herbold for your work on these four pieces of legislation, and I know you've been working diligently on these and under the weather today. And I think it just shows that your commitment to getting these over the finish line before budget. So it's a lot of work and thanks for your championing of the. As I'm saying, so. I'll drink to that. Any other questions or comments? The Seltzer Cold medicine. Cold medicine. Please call the rule on the passage of the bill. Macheda I. O'BRIEN All right. PACHECO So aren't I. Begala Sure. Herbold I was President Herrell high eight in favor and unopposed. Bill passed. Sure. Sign it. Please read the next agenda item the short title.