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council Meeting: April 13, 1993 Santa Monica, California
TO: Mayor and city Council
FROM: city staff
SUBJECT: Annual Report on Compliance with California Revenue
and Taxation Code Section 17274 Regarding Rental
Housing Code Enforcement for Calendar Year 1992
INTRODUCTION
This report presents the rental housing code enforcement
activities of the Building & Safety Division for 1992 as required
by California Revenue and Taxation Code Section 17274 and
recommends that City Council accept and file this required
report.
DISCUSSION
Sectlon 17274 of the Californla Revenue and Tax Code requires
that regulatory agencies report to the Franchise Tax Board the
names and addresses of the owners of substandard rental housing
in the city who fail to make necessary repairs to bring the
property into compliance with health, safety and building codes
withln a spec1.fied period of time. The Franchise Tax Board is
required to deny income tax deductions to owners of these
properties until the regulatory agency determines that the
substandard housing has been brought into compliance. The
statute also requires that a report be filed by each regulatory
agency with l.ts local legislative body by July 1 of each year,
advising of the status of enforcement activities initiated under
this program during the prior calendar year. This is the tenth
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annual report filed regarding Santa Monica's housing code
enforcement activities.
The Building and Safety Division staff reviewed the City's
records of rental housing code complaints and enforcement
activities during 1992. Table 1 presents the information for
calendar year 1992 on Section 17274 compliance activities for
Santa Monica in the specific lanquage and format required by the
state statute. For 1992, a total of nine substandard housing
complaints were filed of which two are still unresolved and being
processed by the Building & Safety Division and City Attorney's
Office.
BUDGET/FINANCIAL IMPACT
There is no budget or financial impact related to the filing of
this report.
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council receive and file this
report as the calendar year 1992 report required by Revenue and
Taxation Code Section 17274 for Santa Monica.
Prepared by: W.D. Rome, Building Officer
LUTM Dept.-Bldg & Sfty Div.
Attachments: Table 1- Santa Monica 1992 Information Pursuant
Revenue & Taxation Code Section 17274 :
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TABLE 1
Calendar Year 1992 Information for city of Santa Monica
Pursuant to Revenue & Taxation Code section 17274
ITEM NO
l. No. of written notices of violation issued for 9
substandard dwellings.
2. No. of violations complied with within period prescribed. 7*
3. No. of notices of noncompliance issued pursuant to 17274. 0
4. No. of appeals from those notices. 0
5. No. of successful appeals by owners. 0
6. No. of not1ces on noncompliance mailed to Franchise
Tax Board (FTB) . 0
7. No. of cases in which notice of noncompliance was not sent. 9
8. No. of extensions for compliance granted and the mean
average length of the extensions. 0
9. The mean average length of time from the issuance of a
notice of violation to the mailing of a notice of
noncompliance to the Franchise Tax Board. N/A
10.The No. of cases where compliance is achieved after a
notice of noncompliance was mailed to Franchise Tax Board. N/A
ll.The No. of instances of disallowance of tax deductions by 3
the Franchise Tax Board resulting from referrals made by
the regulatory agency in prior years thru 1992.
* As of 3/23/1993 two of the nine total cases cited in 1992 were
still pending and had not been finally resolved by either the
Building & Safety or city Attorney staff.
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