CLEVELAND, Ohio – Thousands of landlords ignoring code violations in Cleveland could be getting a special gift from the city’s inspectors to start 2025: a $200 fine. The city’s Building and Housing department is preparing to use its new civil ticketing system, designed to financially punish property owners who break the rules. Director Sally Martin O’Toole told City Council members that the first order of business is to blanket issue fines to “everybody who has not registered a rental property but should have.”