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Deadline for Lead-Safe Certification Approaching
Sojourner’s Truth Staff
Toledo City Councilmen
Larry Sykes and Peter Ujvagi, along with Toledo Lucas County
Health Commissioner Eric Zgodzinski, held a press conference
on Tuesday, March 20, the first day of spring, to remind
homeowners that the summer deadline is rapidly approaching
for a number of properties to be registered for their Lead
Safe Certificates. By June 30, 2018 approximately 12,500
rental properties must be registered, or approximately 112
per day by the 106 registered lead inspectors.
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Health
Commissioner Eric Zgodzinski, Councilmen Larry Sykes and
Peter Ujvagi |
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“We want to stress that
the city is very serious about this issue and helping to
solve it,” said Ujvagi. “It is a national critical crisis
with its impact on our children.”
“Anyone who has lived in a
lead-infested home is going to have some serious medical
issues,” said Sykes.
The lead safe law was
passed in August 2016 with a deadline for compliance for all
rental properties of September 2017. The ordinance was
amended in April 2017 to phase in the rental properties over
a three-year period with the deadline for Phase I being June
2018.
A website is available at
lucascountyhealth.com with information on the lead safe law
and other resources for preventing lead poisoning.
Deferments are available for owners with more than 10
properties and there is a hardship extension program as well
through the City of Toledo Department of Neighborhoods.
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