CITY OF CHICAGO
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DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AFFAIRS AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
March 11.2021
TO THE HONORABLE, THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON LICENSE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
Ladies and Gentlemen:
1 transmit herewith an ordinance changing the effective date of the Shared Housing Reform ordinance.
Your favorable consideration of this ordinance will be appreciated.
Very truly yours,
Rosa Escareno Commissioner, BACP
121 NORTH I. A S A L I. F STREET ROOM 800. CHICAGO. ILLINOIS (50602
ORDINANCE
WHEREAS, On September 9, 2020, the Chicago City Council enacted a Substitute Ordinance amending Chapters 4^5, 4-6,4-13, 4-14,4-16 and 4-17 of the Municipal Code of Chicago to better regulate shared housing in Chicago by requiring, among other things, prospective hosts to register shared housing units with the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection ("the Department") prior to renting the unit to prospective guests or listing the unit for rent on a platform; and
WHEREAS, The adoption of this new legal regime for regulating shared housing required the Department to make technological.upgrades to its computerized system for processing shared housing registrations; and
WHEREAS, The required technological upgrades cannot be completed by April i, 2021, as originally anticipated. As a result, the effective date of this Substitute Ordinance needs to be extended for an additional two months to enable those upgrades to be fully completed; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CTTY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION 1. SECTION 39 of the Substitute Ordinance enacted by the Chicago City Council on September 9, 2020, and appearing on pages 20269 thru 20313 of the Journal of the Proceedings of the City Council of the Cily of Chicago on that date, is hereby amended by deleting the language stricken through and by inserting the language underscored, as follows:
SECTION 39. Effective date.
(Omitted text is unaffected b...
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