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Law / United States / Rhode Island / Providence

Prohibition of Algorithmic Rent Setting Devices

Providence Code of Ordinances ch. 13, art. X, secs. 13-69 to 13-73

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
Operator establishment, Place of effect
Obligation class
Prohibition
Audit expectation
none

What it requires

  • Do not sell, license, or otherwise provide a rental pricing product or service in Providence that uses nonpublic competitor pricing, occupancy, or lease-term data from two or more residential landlords to recommend rents, fees, terms, or occupancy levels
  • Do not accept a subscription, contract, or other payment from a Providence residential landlord for such a product or service

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
MIT mitigations Draft
  • 1.5Safety Decision Frameworks
  • 3.3Access Management
FINOS AIGF
ETSI EN 304 223
  • 5.1.2-1Business need and security risks written down and assessed before deciding to build an AI system.
  • 5.1.4-5End-users told which uses of the system are prohibited.

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

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Who enforces it

Settledness

As of
Open questions
  • Does a software vendor that owns or manages no real property fall within the definition of "real estate lessor", so that Providence Code section 13-70(a) reaches its "sale, licensure, or provision" of a pricing service?
  • Can the city solicitor sue under Providence Code section 13-71 for a violation of section 13-70(d), when section 13-71 reaches a lessor "violating subsections (a), (b), or (c) of Section 13-70"?

What it makes you log

Logging duty

The ordinance bars price coordination and use of an algorithmic pricing device, and states no duty to keep a log or record of pricing decisions or of a lessor's use of such a device.

Kind
None
As of

What this law does

Drafted with AI

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Research summary

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No real estate lessor in Providence may engage in price coordination for a residential rental unit, including through the sale, licensure, or provision of a service or product that involves price coordination, and no lessor may subscribe to, contract for, or otherwise provide anything of value for an algorithmic device.

An algorithmic device is defined as a product or service that uses an algorithm and nonpublic competitor pricing, occupancy, or lease-term data from two or more lessors, or from public databases, to recommend rental prices, fees, terms, or occupancy levels. A property owner found in violation is subject to a civil penalty of up to five hundred dollars per day per violation, enforced by the city solicitor working with the Rhode Island Attorney General.

When LexLint raises it

When your app profile says your app makes housing decisions.

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