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Ordinance amending San Francisco Administrative Code Chapter 37 "Residential Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Ordinance" by amending Sections 37.2 and 37.3 in order to implement and conform to the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act (California Civil Code Sections 1954.50, et seq.), by removing the rental rates of most single-family homes and condominiums from rent control after specified dates, and by authorizing rent increases in rent controlled units upon specified subletting or assignment. However, specified units with serious long-term health, safety, fire or Building Code violations are excluded; unless a tenant who is party to a rent/lease agreement notifies the owner in writing, an owner’s acceptance of rent does not waive the owner’s right to establish initial rent or to enforce a sublease/assignment prohibition; termination or nonrenewal of an owner’s contract or recorded agreement with a government agency that provides rent limitations for qualified tenant(s) requires 90 days written notice to the tenant(s), and the owner may not set the initial rent for the affected unit for three years except as specified. Also, amending San Francisco Administrative Code Chapter 37A "Residential Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Fee" by amending Section 37A.1 to provide that the fees remain applicable to defined units that are exempt from the rent control provisions but not from the other provisions of Chapter 37.
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