Pennsylvania HB 1062: An Act amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in neighborhood blight reclamation and revitalization, providing for State blight data collection system; and establishing the Property Maintenance Code Serious Violations Registry and the Property Maintenance Code Serious Violations Registry Account.

Bill Text

PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1157 PRINTER'S NO. 1657
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1062
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY MARKOSEK, HILL-EVANS, WAXMAN, GIRAL, KUZMA,
KENYATTA, SANCHEZ, BURGOS, KAZEEM, MADDEN, MALAGARI, DONAHUE,
KINKEAD, CIRESI, DEASY, DOUGHERTY, STEELE AND SCHLOSSBERG,
MARCH 26, 2025
AS AMENDED ON SECOND CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
MAY 7, 2025
AN ACT
Amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in neighborhood blight reclamation and
revitalization, providing for State blight data collection
system; and establishing the Property Maintenance Code
Serious Violations Registry and the Property Maintenance Code
Serious Violations Registry Account.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 61 of Title 53 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subchapter to read:
SUBCHAPTER C.1
STATE BLIGHT DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM
Sec.
6135.1. Definitions.
6135.2. Property Maintenance Code Serious Violations Registry.
6135.3. Property maintenance code serious violation reports.
6135.4. Dissemination of information by department.
6135.5. Changing status of property on registry.
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6135.6. Administrative requirements.
6135.7. Audit.
6135.8. Imposition of registry penalty .
6135.9. Property Maintenance Code Serious Violations Registry
Account.
6135.10 . Duty of Attorney General.
§ 6135.1. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter
shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Account." The Property Maintenance Code Serious Violations
Registry Account established under this subchapter.
"Department." The Department of Community and Economic
Development of the Commonwealth.
"Municipal claim." The term shall mean the same as defined
in the act of May 16, 1923 (P.L.207, No.153), referred to as the
Municipal Claim and Tax Lien Law.
"Registry." The Property Maintenance Code Serious Violations
Registry established under section 6135.2 (relating to Property
Maintenance Code Serious Violations Registry).
§ 6135.2. Property Maintenance Code Serious Violations
Registry.
(a) Establishment.--The Property Maintenance Code Serious
Violations Registry is established. The department shall
implement and administer the registry.
(b) Purpose.--The registry shall contain property
maintenance code serious violation reports filed by
municipalities under section 6135.3 (relating to property
maintenance code serious violation reports).
§ 6135.3. Property maintenance code serious violation reports.
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(a) Filing .--A municipality may file a property maintenance
code serious violation report for a person who owns real
property within the municipality with current serious property
maintenance code violations that remain unabated for at least
one year unless the municipality can demonstrate that it has,
for at least one year, cited serious violations on a property
prior to establishment of the registry.
(b) Forms provided.--Property maintenance code serious
violation reports shall be made on forms provided by the
department and submitted electronically.
(c) Information included.--Property maintenance code serious
violation reports shall include the following information:
(1) The name of the owner whose real property has been
cited for a serious property maintenance code violation. If
the property owner is a limited liability company or other
business entity that does not list the principals of the
limited liability company or other business entity, the
department or the department's third-party entity shall
attempt to find those principals or their agents and add
their names to the registry, in addition to the name of the
limited liability company or other business entity.
(2) A copy of the citation issued to the real property
owner.
(3) The physical address , tax parcel number and county
of the real property.
(4) The number of municipal claims or liens attached to
the real property by the filing municipality .
(d) Access.--The department shall make the registry
accessible electronically to all municipalities and the public.
(e) Database.--The database shall be searchable by property
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owner and by property address.
§ 6135.4. Dissemination of information by department.
(a) Availability of information.--Information contained in a
property maintenance code serious violation report shall be
accessible for inspection and duplication in accordance with the
act of February 14, 2008 (P.L.6, No.3), known as the Right-to-
Know Law.
(b) Requests by municipalities.--
(1) A municipality may request a copy of a property
maintenance code serious violation report on a pending
applica