Los Angeles Municipal Code

SEC. 47.07. TENANT RELOCATION ASSISTANCE WHERE APARTMENTS ARE TO BE DEMOLISHED.

occupancy thereof, including garage and parking facilities. The term shall not include: 1. A one-family dwelling, except where three or more dwelling units are located on the same lot. 2. A two family dwelling, provided that one dwelling unit therein is occupied by a record owner of the property. 3. An apartment house or apartment hotel, provided that such house or hotel contains at most three dwelling units and one such dwelling unit is occupied by a record owner of the property. 4. Housing accommodations in hotels, motels, inns, tourist homes and boarding and rooming houses, provided that at such time as an accommodation has been occupied by one or more of the same tenants for sixty 60 days or more such accommodation shall become a rental unit subject to the provisions of this section. 5. Housing accommodations in any hospital, convent, monastery, extended medical care facility, asylum, nonprofit home for the aged, fraternity or sorority house, or housing accommodations owned, operated or managed by an institution of higher education, a high school or an elementary school for occupancy by its students. 6. Housing accommodations which a government unit, agency or authority owns, operates, or manages, or which are specifically exempted from municipal rent regulation by state or federal law or administrative regulation. 7. Luxury housing accommodations wherein as of May 31, 1978 the rent charged per month was at least $302 for a unit with no bedrooms, $420 for a unit with one bedroom; $588 for a unit with two bedrooms; $756 for a unit with three bedrooms; and $823 for a unit with four bedrooms or more. 8. Mobile home. Tenant : A tenant, subtenant, lessee, sublessee, or any other person entitled to use or occupancy of a rental unit. (Amended by Ord. No. 185,224, Eff. 12/13/17.) C. Relocation Assistance Required. The landlord shall pay the City a fee for the purpose of providing relocation assistance by the City’s Relocation Assistance Service Provider to each tenant in accordance with Subsection D. of this section in connection with the demolition of a building or its relocation to another site for either of the following purposes: (1) to construct a new condominium, community apartment or stock cooperative, as those terms are defined in the California Government Code and Business and Professions Code; or (2) to use the property for any commercial purpose.