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The enacted ordinance requires landlords of multi-family buildings with three or more residential units to provide tenants and prospective tenants with a written smoking policy when entering into or renewing a lease. The policy must say whether smoking is prohibited in all units, allowed in all units, or allowed only in specified units, and it must be included in the lease; the ordinance takes effect 60 days after it becomes law.

Amending Chapter 9-800 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Landlord and Tenant - Rent Control," by requiring that tenants of certain multi-family buildings be provided with a written disclosure of the building policy on smoking in individual dwelling units, under certain terms and conditions.