San Jose Mun. Code Chapter 17.23 § 17.23.1120

In addition to the definitions provided in Title 17 , Chapter 23, Part 2, for purposes of this Part 11 the following terms are defined as follows: A.
"Base assistance" means that portion of the relocation assistance provided to all tenant households to mitigate any adverse impact on persons displaced from a covered unit due to the withdrawal of a building containing the covered unit from the residential rental market.
B. "Catastrophically ill" means having a severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery as certified by a physician.
C. "Covered unit" means all of the following:
1. Rent stabilized units, as defined in Subsection G of Section 17.23.1130 .
2. All residential rental dwelling units in a building that contains a residential rental dwelling unit that would be a rent stabilized unit but is temporarily exempt under Subsection C of Section 17.23.150 because the unit is owned or operated by any government agency or the rents for the unit are subsidized by any government agency.
D. "Director" means the director of the department of housing or the director's designee.
E. "Notice of intent to withdraw" means a city approved form giving notice of an owner's intent to withdraw a building containing at least one covered unit from the residential rental market in accordance with California Government Code Sections 7060 - 7060.7, as amended.
F. "Owner" means the fee owner of property that includes a building that contains at least one covered unit, and includes any successor in interest.
G. "Qualified assistance" means that portion of the relocation assistance provided to mitigate the adverse impact on tenant households that are low income, or contain minor children, elderly persons, terminally or catastrophically ill persons and/or disabled persons displaced due to the withdrawal of a building containing the covered unit from the residential rental market.
H. "Relocation assistance" means the total payments of financial assistance from an owner to a qualified tenant household in accordance with Section 17.23.1150 .
I. "Rent stabilized units" means the units subject to the city's apartment rent ordinance provided in Title 17 , Chapter 23, which includes rooms or accommodations occupied for thirty days or more in a guesthouse and units in any multiple dwelling building for which a certificate of occupancy was received on or prior to September 7, 1979, as those terms are defined in Sections 20.200.340 , 20.200.470 , and 20.200.480 of the San José Municipal Code.
J. "Right to return" means the obligation of the owner(s) of a building containing a covered unit to honor a request by certain tenants to receive an offer to return to and rent a covered unit when an owner returns the covered unit to the residential rental market, or, if the covered unit has been demolished, the right to rent a replacement covered unit, under certain circumstances and terms described in Section 17.23.1170 . The right to return shall serve as a right of first refusal which must be complied with and specifically described in the memorandum required under Section 17.23.1145 .
K. "Tenant" means a residential tenant, subtenant, lessee, sublessee, occupant, or any other person entitled by written or oral lease, or by sufferance, to use or occupy a covered unit.
L. "Tenant household" means one or more tenant(s) who occupy any individual covered unit, including each dependent of any tenant whose primary residence is the covered unit.
M. "Terminally ill" means certified by a physician as having a terminal illness.