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Councilman Ludeman
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Amending the Toledo Municipal Code by repealing the existing Chapter 1760, Registration of Lead Safe Residential Rental Units, and enacting a new Chapter 1760 under Part 17, Title 3 entitled Lead Safe Residential Rental Units and Day Care Centers; and declaring an emergency.
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SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
Toledo City Council finds that lead poisoning poses a serious health threat to adults and especially children in the City of Toledo. Children are particularly susceptible to the hazards of lead since their bodies are still developing and since they are more likely to ingest lead through hand-to-mouth contact. Fetuses are also vulnerable to the effects of lead paint because women of child bearing age can, when they become pregnant, transfer lead to their fetuses, which can result in adverse developmental effects.
City Council desires to amend the Toledo Municipal Code by repealing the existing lead laws, Ch. 1760, and enacting a new Ch. 1760 for Lead Safe Residential Rental Units and Day Care Centers.
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NOW, THEREFORE, Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Toledo:
SECTOON 1. That the existing Toledo Municipal Code Chapter 1760, Registration of Lead Safe Residential Rental Units, is hereby repealed in its entirety.
SECTION 2. That a new Part 17, Title 3, Chapter 1760 of the Toledo Municipal Code is enacted to read as follows:
Lead Safe Residential Rental Units and Day Care Centers
1760.01 Policy and Intent.
It is the policy of the City of Toledo to help prevent the poisoning of its residents by requiring that the presence of deteriorated paint, which may contain lead, on the interior and exterior of pre-1978 residential structures and on bare soil be identified and correctly addressed by reducing and controlling the deteriorated paint hazards which may be present and covering the bare soil, in order to prevent potential human exposure to lead hazards. All fees and fines generated under this ...
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