Rental registration history
In October 2007, ordinance No. 071046 was passed requiring that all occupied rental housing units within the City limits of Kansas City, Mo., be registered with the City starting Jan. 1, 2008, and renewed each year. A $50 per month fine for failure to register began Feb. 1, 2008. The current ordinance is online at municode.com.
Registration renewal
Registration renewal may be done anytime during December or January and there is no registration fee. Failure to renew registration of an occupied rental dwelling before February 1 of each year will result in a fine. For each month (or portion thereof) that a registration is not renewed, a $50 fine will be assessed.
Definition
A rental dwelling is any property that contains a dwelling or rooming unit that is being offered for rent or is being rented or occupied by any person who is not the owner of the premises. However, property occupied by a child, grandchild, mother, father, sibling, mother-in-law, father-in-law or grandparent of the owner is not considered rental property. In addition, duplex dwellings in which one of the units is owner-occupied are not considered rental dwellings for the purposes of this program. Registration of rental properties is keyed to the ownership of each property; you may register several properties on one application as long as they are under one ownership.
Changes in any information in an application are required to be registered with the City within 30 days of the change. This includes the sale of a registered property, the acquisition of a non-registered property, and the acquisition of a property registered under a different owner. Occupied rental properties must be registered within 30 days of purchase. Vacant properties that are being rented out must be registered within 30 days of the tenant taking possession of the property.
You may register online; Shalisha Boles is the contact person. Her phone number is (816) 513-3200, and her e-mail is shalisha_boles@kcmo.org, if you have questions.
