A Landlord’s Guide to the Philadelphia Lead Disclosure
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HAPCO - South Philadelphia: A Landlord’s Guide to the Philadelphia Lead Disclosure and Certification Law
April 8th, 2020
Entrance Fee: $5.00
6:30-8:30PM
2nd Wednesday of the Month
Location: Moonshine Philly 1825 E Moyamensing Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19148 (Pennsport Mall Parking Lot for Parking)
Educational Speaker: Steve Leon l Director, Training & Marketing , Lew Corporation – The Environmental Company
Discussion: A Landlord’s Guide to the Philadelphia Lead Disclosure and Certification Law
Overview: What Landlords Need to Know
Does the law apply to me? The Philadelphia Lead Disclosure & Certification Law (Philadelphia Code Section 6-800) applies to any landlord who rents Philadelphia properties built before 1978 to new tenants who will be living in the property with a child 6 years or under. Student housing and housing owned or subsidized by the Philadelphia Housing Authority or privately owned but currently leased under the Housing Choice Voucher Program is exempted from the law.
What is the purpose of the law? The purpose of the law is to prevent children from becoming lead poisoned, and to ensure they live in lead-free or lead-safe housing by requiring landlords to certify a property rented to children is lead safe or lead free. Despite years of progress, each year significant numbers of children in Philadelphia suffer the irreparable harm of lead poisoning because of exposure to deteriorated lead paint and lead dust in their homes. More than half of these children are living with their families in rental units.
How is this law different from existing regulations? The Philadelphia Property Maintenance Code already requires landlords to correct any peeling paint, cracked or loose plaster, decayed wood, and other defective surface conditions in a rental unit. The Philadelphia Lead Disclosure & Certification Law requires the landlord to go a step further and certify that a property is lead safe before children 6 years old and younger move in.
What does the law require? Upon turnover (change of occupancy), landlords must provide a Philadelphia Department of Public Health (PDPH) Lead Safe Certificate or Lead Free Certificate to every new tenant who has children 6 years or under who will be residing in a property built before 1978.
November 2018 4 Philadelphia Department of Public Health
Along with the certificate, the landlord must provide the tenant with other specific information listed on page 6.
What does it mean if a property is “certified lead safe” under this law? A certification that a property is lead safe means that a licensed lead inspector-risk assessor or a certified lead dust sampling technician has: 1) determined the property is free of deteriorated, flaking, chipping, peeling, chalking or not-intact paint, and 2) interior dust samples were collected, tested, and found not to contain hazardous levels of lead-contaminated dust. This certificate is valid for 24 months.
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