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Ordinance amending Article 11 of the San Francisco Health Code to change the title from "Nuisance" to "Neighborhood Sanitation and Housing Habitability," adding relevant definitions to Section 580, amending the definition of nuisance in Section 581 to include asbestos hazards and violations of Sections 582, 583 and 295, adding Section 582 to set forth specific requirements to prevent vermin and insect disease vector harborage and infestation in dwellings, commercial establishments, and vacant lots in order to improve the health, safety and general welfare of occupants, adding Section 582.5 to require the Director to promulgate rules and regulations to address bed bug infestations, adding Section 584 to give the Department of Public Health the discretion to require owners and managers of multiple dwellings with more than three dwelling units and a history of noncompliance to complete Department of Public Health-approved training sessions; adding potential attorneys' fees recovery for those cases in which the City elects to recover attorneys' fees to Sections 596 and 609, clarifying and making consistent with state law the Director's authority in Section 596 to issue orders to vacate a premises upon discovery of a nuisance that endangers the immediate health and safety of the residents, adding a requirement that the Director give notice to relocated tenants under this section that they may be eligible for assistance pursuant to California Health and Safety Code Sections 17975 et seq., adding lien recovery for attorneys' fees for Section 599 and 609, adding civil penalties of $500 per violation per day to Section 600, authorizing recovery of all costs and fees, including attorneys' fees, incurred in enforcement under Section 609 and raising the existing inspection fees to $150 for the first hour and $75 for each additional half-hour or part thereof, extending the notice and hearing provisions for lien collections under Sections 609.1 and 609.2 to include the additional costs and fees that may be recovered under the amended Section 609, creating fees in Section 609 for routine and complaint-based inspections that reveal violations; adding Section 295 to require that in all multi-story residential facilities, refuse be collected from the ground level or below ground level garbage collection rooms, designated garbage areas or from the sidewalk and that refuse from upper floors may not be transferred to those designated areas between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., expanding the definition of lead hazards in Sections 1603 and 581(b)(10) to include hazards to adults as well as children.
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