PRINTER'S NO. 1023
No. 882 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY WILLIAMS AND LOGAN, MAY 21, 2001
REFERRED TO URBAN AFFAIRS AND HOUSING, MAY 21, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 6, 1951 (P.L.69, No.20), entitled "An
2 act relating to the rights, obligations and liabilities of
3 landlord and tenant and of parties dealing with them and
4 amending, revising, changing and consolidating the law
5 relating thereto," further providing for landlord's duties.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. Section 502-A of the act of April 6, 1951
9 (P.L.69, No.20), known as The Landlord and Tenant Act of 1951,
10 added December 10, 1974 (P.L.825, No.274), is amended to read:
11 Section 502-A. Landlord's Duties.--(a) The retention of
12 control of the stairways, passages, roadways and other common
13 facilities of a tenement building or multiple dwelling premises
14 places upon the landlord, or other possessor, the duty of
15 reasonable care for safety in use. This responsibility of the
16 landlord extends not alone to the individual tenant, but also to
17 his family, servants and employees, business visitors, social
18 guests, and the like. Those who enter in the right of the
19 tenant, even though under his mere license, make a permissible
1 use of the premises for which the common ways and facilities are
2 provided.
3 (b) Landlords shall maintain operable carbon monoxide
4 detectors in all rental properties.
5 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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