Law / United States / Pennsylvania / City of Philadelphia
Bill No. 240823, Anti-Competitive Rental Practices
In force since .
An AI prohibited practices rule binding private bodies.
- How the hook was established
- express
- What it reaches
- supply
- What makes it apply
- Place of effect
- Obligation class
- Prohibition
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Do not sell, license, or provide, in Philadelphia, a service or product that involves price coordination among residential landlords, meaning a recommendation of rental prices, fees, or other rental terms drawn from nonpublic competitor data
- Do not facilitate an agreement between Philadelphia residential landlords not to compete on rental pricing, fees, or other rental terms
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 3.3Targeted application scope is specified and documented based on the system’s capability, established context, and AI system categorization.
- NIST AI 600-1
- GAI-RISK-08Information Integrity
- GAI-RISK-11Obscene, Degrading, and/or Abusive Content
- MIT mitigations Draft
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-PREV-005System Acceptance Testing
- ETSI EN 304 223
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
Identifiers refer to ETSI EN 304 223 V2.1.1 (2025-12), © ETSI 2025, all rights reserved. ETSI owns the standard; no ETSI text (titles or sentences) is reproduced here. The standard is free to download from ETSI.
If you get it wrong
Private right of actionYes
Penalty structure
Civil penalty in an action filed by the City. Each prohibited action is counted as a separate violation for every day it occurs or continues, and violations are counted separately for each affected residential rental unit in the City.
- Rule
- Per violation only
- As of
- Currency
- USD
- Per violation unit
- Violation
- Per violation amount
- 2,000
Statutory damages
A private plaintiff may elect, before judgment, statutory damages of $2,000 per violation instead of three times actual damages; the amount is per violation rather than per person, and violations are counted per day and per affected unit. In an action filed by the City, persons aggrieved recover actual damages or, if the City elects, $1,000 per violation.
- As of
- Currency
- USD
- Per person minimum
- 2,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The City of Philadelphia, through its Law Department, which may sue in the City's name, and any person aggrieved by a violation, who may bring a civil action.
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Does a person "facilitate an agreement" under Philadelphia Code section 9-813(1)(c) by supplying one pricing tool to two landlords who never communicate with each other?
- Do "such services involve price coordination" under Philadelphia Code section 9-813(1)(d) when a service only reports other landlords' rents and makes no rent recommendation?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Section 9-813 prohibits price coordination for residential rental units in the City and its facilitation; it creates no duty for any party to keep a log, record or other documentation, and names nobody who may check one.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
No person may enter an agreement not to compete on rental pricing, fees, or other rental terms for a residential rental unit in Philadelphia, engage in price coordination for such a unit including through the sale, licensure, or provision of a service or product that involves price coordination, facilitate such an agreement between others, or use, subscribe to, or pay for a service that involves price coordination.
Any person aggrieved by a violation may bring a civil action for injunctive relief, damages, and attorney's fees, and the City's Law Department may also sue in the City's name.
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