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EXHIBIT 2 any amendments or supplements, and oral testimony,shall constitute the necessary findingsfor this ordinance. T.The City Council finds, determines and declares that the threat to the public health, safety and welfare of the City and its residentsnecessitates the enactment of the ordinance. Section 2.The recitals and statements of fact set forth in the preamble to this ordinance are true and correct, constitute a substantive part of this ordinance, and are incorporated herein by this reference. Section 3.Section8-1998of the Santa Ana Municipal Code isdeleted in its entirety. Section 4.Division 5 is hereby added to Article X (Property Maintenance)of Chapter 8 (Buildings and Structures) of the Santa Ana Municipal Code to read as follows: Division 5.RENT STABILIZATION Section 8-1998.1Prohibited Increases. (a)Increases in rent on residential real property or mobilehomespaces in the City of Santa Ana in excess of three percent (3%), or eighty (80%) of the change in the Consumer Price Index, whichever is less, and more than one rent increase in any twelve (12) month period, are prohibited, unless expressly exempt under the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act codified in Dbmjgpsojb!Djwjm!Dpef section 1954.50, et seq., or the Mobilehome Residency Lawcodified in Dbmjgpsojb!Djwjm!Dpef sections 798, et seq. If the change in the Consumer Price Indexis negative, no rent increase is permitted.The term Consumer Price Index means, at the time of the adjustment calculationcompleted by the City pursuant to subsection (b), the percentage increase in the United State Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers in theLos Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim Metropolitan Area published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, not seasonally adjusted, for the most recent twelve (12) month period ending prior to the calculation pursuant to subsection (b).A violation of this section occurs upon the service of notice or demand for a prohibited increase in rent. (b)No later than June 30th each year, beginning with the year 2022, the City shall announce the amount of allowable rent increase based on subsection (a) herein, which shall be effective as of September 1st of that year.