CHAPTER 37:
RESIDENTIAL RENT STABILIZATION AND ARBITRATION ORDINANCE

Sec. 37.1.	Title and Findings.
Sec. 37.2.	Definitions.
Sec. 37.3.	Rent Limitations.
Sec. 37.4.	Establishment; Appointment; Terms; Executive Director; Funding; Compensation.
Sec. 37.5.	Meetings of the Board.
Sec. 37.6.	Powers and Duties.
Sec. 37.7.	Certification of Rent Increases for Capital Improvements, Rehabilitation Work, Energy Conservation Improvements, and Renewable Energy Improvements.
Sec. 37.8.	Arbitration of Rental Increase Adjustments.
Sec. 37.8A.	Expedited Hearing Procedures.
Sec. 37.8B.	Expedited Hearing and Appeal Procedures for Capital Improvements Resulting from Seismic Work on Unreinforced Masonry Buildings Pursuant to Building Code Chapters 16B and 16C Where Landlords Performed the Work with a UMB Bond Loan.
Sec. 37.8C.	Temporary Moratorium on Rent Board Processing or Approval of Landlord Petitions for Certification and Passthrough of Non-Seismic Capital Improvement, Rehabilitation and Energy Conservation Costs to Tenants, During Pendency of the Superior Court Preliminary Injunction Staying Implementation of November 2000 Proposition H.
Sec. 37.9.	Evictions.
Sec. 37.9A.	Tenant Rights in Certain Displacements Under Section 37.9(a)(13).
Sec. 37.9B.	Tenant Rights in Evictions Under Section 37.9(a)(8).
Sec. 37.9C.	Tenants Rights to Relocation for No-Fault Evictions.
Sec. 37.9D.	Foreclosure Evictions.
Sec. 37.9E.	Tenant Buyout Agreements.
Sec. 37.9F.	Circumvention of Tenant Protections.
Sec. 37.10A.	Misdemeanors, and Other Enforcement Provisions.
Sec. 37.10B.	Tenant Harassment.
Sec. 37.10C.	Use and Sale of Algorithmic Devices Prohibited.
Sec. 37.11A.	Civil Actions.
Sec. 37.12.	Transitional Provisions.
Sec. 37.13.	Keys.
Sec. 37.14A.	Hearings and Remedies for Violation of Residential Hotel Visitor Policies.
Sec. 37.14B.	Hearing, Residential Hotel Mail Receptacles.
Sec. 37.15.	Reporting Obligations; Licensing.
Sec. 37.16.	Severability.

 

Editor’s Note:
   Proposition H, approved by the voters on November 7, 2000, amended a number of sections in this Chapter. On August 10, 2001, the San Francisco Superior Court permanently enjoined the enforcement of Proposition H, with the exception of Sections 37.3(a)(6) and 37.3(b)(2), which were not challenged. The full text of Proposition H may be found in Appendix 50 of this Code.