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The enacted ordinance amended Philadelphia’s Property Maintenance Code and updated related references throughout the City Code. It changed rules and enforcement related to permits, unsafe and vacant properties, inspections, fines, property licenses, student housing, dumpsters, and historic-area standards, affecting property owners and managers, tenants and students, businesses, and city code enforcement.

Amending various provisions of Subcode PM of Title 4 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "The Philadelphia Property Maintenance Code," as it will take effect January 1, 2015 pursuant to Bill No. 120647 (approved January 20, 2014); and further amending The Philadelphia Code by updating cross-references to Subcode PM that now appear in other Subcodes of Title 4 and in other titles of The Philadelphia Code; all under certain terms and conditions.