§ 80A.1. OWNER’S OBLIGATION TO ABATE NUISANCES AND NOTIFY TENANTS.

(a) Nuisance Abatement. Each condition of property in violation of State law or the San Francisco Municipal Code contributing to a hazardous housing condition that leads the Fire Department and/or the Department of Building Inspection (“City code enforcement agency”) to issue an order to vacate constitutes a nuisance, which may be summarily abated by the City at the expense of the persons creating, causing, committing, or maintaining the nuisance. Nuisance abatement shall include City activities under either this Chapter 80A or Section 10.100-343 of the Administrative Code, or both, including disbursements from the Tenant Assistance Fund for Hazardous Housing established in Section 10.100-343 (the “Fund”), administration of the Fund, and delivery of services to tenants displaced by hazardous conditions. Each such person who has created, caused, committed, or maintained such a condition shall promptly reimburse the City all costs it incurs under this Chapter 80A and Section 10.100-343, as determined by the Director of the Department of Building Inspection or his or her designee (“DBI Director”), upon being notified of such costs. The DBI Director shall timely notify the owner of the HSA Director’s determination of the owner’s responsibility, and amounts owed to the City. The Controller shall deposit any funds the City collects or is reimbursed under this Chapter 80A into the Fund.

(b) Notification to Tenants. The owner of a building subject to an administrative order to vacate shall, upon issuance of such order, make a good-faith effort to notify each tenant or family thereof verbally and in writing, in the first language of the tenant or family, of (1) the order to vacate’s contents and meaning; and (2) the contents of this Chapter 80A and Section 10.100-343.

(Added by Ord. , File No. 170937, App. 1/19/2018, Eff. 2/19/2018)