(ii) By accepting occupancy in Good Samaritan Status, a tenant does not waive any right to compensation or any right to return to the tenant's previous unit that he or she otherwise may have under Chapter 37 or other source of law, based on the emergency vacation of the tenant's previous unit.
(iii) Good Samaritan Status may only be utilized upon certification in writing by one of the following officials, or his or her designee, that as a result of fire, earthquake, landslide, or similar emergency situation, the tenant's previous unit is in such condition that, as a matter of public health and safety and as a matter of habitability, the tenant cannot or should not reside there until the unit has been appropriately repaired:
Mayor;
Fire Chief;
Director of the Department of Building Inspection;
Director of the Department of Public Health; or
Other Official as authorized by law.
The Rent Board shall make a form available, that the Official may use for this purpose.
(iv) The tenant's rent increase anniversary date for a Good Samaritan occupancy shall be the date the tenancy commenced; the first annual allowable increase shall take effect no less than one year from the anniversary date, but when imposed after one year, shall set a new anniversary date for the imposition of future rent increases. The base rent used for calculation of the annual allowable increase pursuant to Section 37.3(a)(1) during a Good Samaritan occupancy, shall be the reduced rent rate in effect on the day the Good Samaritan occupancy commences.