When a party owns two or more commercial buildings in the City of Berkeley and only one of those buildings has become subject to this chapter by virtue of its sale or a major renovation thereto, the owner may transfer his or her responsibility for compliance with this chapter from the subject building to any other of his or her buildings in the City as long as:

    A.    The owner installs the energy conservation measured required by this chapter in any of his or her other buildings in a dollar amount equal to or exceeding the maximum required expenditure which would have been expended upon the subject building, and

    B.    The owner executes and files with the City an inter-building compliance responsibility transfer request ("transfer request"), stating that:

    1.    The subject building is entitled to one of the exemptions described in Section 19.72.080, or

    2.    The building owner's intentions for the subject building would render the implementation of the energy conservation measures in the subject unreasonable because:

    a.    The building owner intends to demolish the subject building within three years, or

    b.    The building owner intends to keep the subject building vacant for three or more years. (Ord. 6176-NS § 10, 1993)