The provisions of this Chapter shall not apply to:
(a) The change in use of a residential unit where the unit has been found to be unfit for human habitation prior to November 23, 1979 and ordered to be vacated by the Department of Public Health; or
(b) A hotel wherein 95 percent of the guest rooms were tourist units on September 23, 1979; or
(c) A unit which rented for over $1,000 per month on September 23, 1979; or
(d) A hotel in which 95 percent of the total number of guest rooms rented for more than $1,000 per month on September 23, 1979; or
(e) A building which was unlawfully converted to a rooming house or hotel in violation of the provisions of the City Planning Code; or
(f) A building which meets the requirements of Section 41.7(c) below for a claim of exemption for partially-completed conversions; or
(g) A building which meets the requirements of Section 41.7(b) below for a claim of exemption for low-income housing; or
(h) A building which is lawfully approved by the City after September 23, 1979, and is not a replacement unit pursuant to Section 41.13 herein, so long as it is operated by a public entity or a nonprofit organization as a jail, health facilities as defined by Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code, asylum, sanitarium, orphanage, prison, convent, rectory, residential care facility for the elderly as defined in Section 1569.2 of the Health and Safety Code, residential facilities as defined in Section 1502 of Health and Safety Code, or other institution in which human beings are housed or detained under legal restraint.
(Added by Ord. 121-90, App. 4/12/90)