Maybe the third time is the charm when it comes to a rental inspection program for Richmond.

City Council’s agenda for the Monday, Feb. 13, currently lists a resolution that calls on City Hall to develop a program of apartment inspections — the third effort to get such a program underway in the past 15 years.

Fifth District Councilwoman Stephanie A. Lynch introduced the proposal with two other members, Council President Michael

J. Jones, 9th District, and Councilwoman Ann-Frances Lambert, 3rd District, in this new effort to create such a program.

The Land Use, Housing and Transportation Committee on Jan. 26 sent the proposal to the full council with a recommendation for approval. The committee includes its chair, 1st District Councilman Andreas D. Addison, vice chair and 6th District Councilwoman Ellen F. Robertson and Ms. Lambert.

The goal is to ensure that Richmond residents who rent live in properties that meet state building code standards.

The resolution calls for. Lincoln Saunders, the city’s chief administrative officer, and his city staff to develop an inspection program by June that would be sent to the council for consideration.

Based on a state law permitting localities to develop such programs, the resolution calls for creating a data-driven program that would allow the city to target areas that generate the highest number of formal complaints or code violations.

According to the resolution, Mr. Saunders is to propose residential inspection districts for such areas so that inspectors could undertake code compliance inspections. Apartment complexes in the inspection districts would be subject to inspection at least

once every four years and more often based on complaints. The resolution also calls for flexibility to enable inspections of apartment houses that are located outside of inspection districts. The resolution states that the inspection process should be set up so it triggers compliance inspections of non-inspection district apartment buildings that were found to be deteriorating, are already in blighted condition or have building code violations that affect “safe, decent and sanitary living conditions.”

The three council patrons hope that this initiative will have greater success than proposals that council members introduced in 2007 and 2014 that died for lack of support from five members.