§ 15.07. Providing benchmarking information to the property owner.

(1)

The owner of a covered property shall make all reasonable efforts to ensure the tenants within the covered property provide all information that cannot otherwise be acquired by the owner and that is needed by the owner to comply with the requirements of this chapter.

(2)

When the owner of a covered property receives notice that a nonresidential tenant is vacating a space, such owner shall request information relating to such tenant's energy use for any period of occupancy relevant to the owner's obligation to benchmark, but only if the utility does not provide this information through whole-building utility data. The landlord of such premises shall make all reasonable efforts to obtain energy use data from the vacating tenants within 30 days of the notice to vacate.

(3)

When a covered property changes ownership, the previous owner must provide the new owner all information for the months of the calendar year being benchmarked during the time the previous owner was still in possession of the property.

(4)

Where the owner is unable to benchmark due to the failure of a utility and/or any or all nonresidential tenants to report the information required by this ordinance, the owner shall complete benchmarking requirement using such alternate default values as established by the then-existing US EPA Energy Star program.

(Ord. No. 2016-64, § 1, 12-5-2016, Doc. #1612051208)