Taylor, MI Rental Inspections: Inspection Programs (2026)

Sec. 8-102 requires the owner of any rental dwelling to register it with the city and to designate a responsible local agent who is legally responsible for operating the dwelling, its premises and its rental units, and who must provide access for inspections. Registration must happen within 90 days of the ordinance's effective date, and a certificate of compliance cannot be issued unless the dwelling is registered and a responsible local agent has been appointed. Sec. 8-109 sets out how the building department carries out inspections: on an area basis covering a predetermined geographic area, on registration or renewal-inspection bases, on a complaint basis, or on a recurrent-violation basis for dwellings with a history of uncorrected problems.

Sec. 8-101 backs the registration and certificate requirements with tiered civil-infraction fines: failing to register carries a $150.00 fine for a first offense, $250.00 for a second and $500.00 for subsequent offenses, with a separate fine possible for each day the violation continues, and leasing a unit without a valid certificate of compliance carries the same $150.00/$250.00/$500.00 schedule. Knowingly leasing a unit with a dangerous condition that threatens health, safety or life, or knowingly supplying false information to the city, is a misdemeanor under Sec.

8-101(d) and (e). Sec. 8-107 requires a valid certificate of compliance before any rental unit can be occupied, issued only after registration, application, a building department inspection and correction of any violations the inspection finds, and Sec. 8-105 requires the responsible local agent to live within the county or within 50 miles of the city.