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Committee Recommends Tenant Fire‑Safety Disclosure, Training Requirements for Multiunit Buildings
Summary
An ordinance requiring landlords to provide annual fire‑safety disclosures to residents of buildings with three or more units and annual training in buildings with 16+ units was advanced with amendments adjusting implementation timing and transmittal windows.
Legislative staff presented July 14 an ordinance amending the San Francisco Fire Code to require owners of buildings with three or more dwelling units to provide annual disclosures about fire safety features and to provide annual training for residents in buildings with 16 or more units.
Ray Law, legislative aide to Supervisor Katie Tang, said the disclosures would describe the location of fire extinguishers, emergency exits and fire‑escape routes, smoke and carbon monoxide detector locations and dates of the last inspections or replacements. Owners must provide the disclosure orally and in writing before a new resident’s occupancy and in writing once a year; buildings with 16+ units must also offer annual training covering prevention and escape procedures.
The office proposed non‑substantive amendments to combine posting requirements, phase implementation (tenant disclosures 6 months after adoption; trainings 12 months after adoption), extend transmittal from 5 to 20 business days and add explicit language that noncompliance is not grounds for eviction. The Apartment Association testified in support of the collaborative process.
The committee adopted the amendments and recommended the ordinance to the full Board of Supervisors.
