Section 511.1.
Section 512, subject to the written new-address rule.
For covered landlord nonpayment, tenant notice must precede termination under §1523.
§1529 allows qualifying payments under the subchapter to be recovered through rent deduction or reimbursement.
Pennsylvania charge guides
Security Deposit
Pennsylvania security deposit caps, 30-day accounting, forwarding-address and interest rules.
Open guide →Deposit Limits
Pennsylvania allows up to two months’ rent in the first year and generally one month in later years.
Open guide →30-Day Rule
Pennsylvania Section 512 requires a written damage list and balance of escrow within the statutory 30-day framework.
Open guide →Forwarding Address
Why a written new address is important under Pennsylvania Section 512.
Open guide →Deposit Interest
Pennsylvania interest and escrow-account rules that apply after the second anniversary for covered deposits.
Open guide →Move-Out Charges
Review Pennsylvania damage deductions, deposit accounting and move-out charges under Section 512.
Open guide →Double-Damages Rule
Pennsylvania Section 512 describes a double-damages remedy for certain failures to return the amount due from escrow.
Open guide →Landlord Utility Shutoff Rights
Pennsylvania tenant rights when gas, electric, steam, sewage or water is included in the rental arrangement and the landlord-ratepayer faces utility termination for nonpayment.
Open guide →Deposit and utility problems use different statutes
A deposit deduction belongs in the Landlord and Tenant Act’s escrow framework. A notice that the landlord’s master utility account will be shut off belongs in 66 Pa.C.S. Chapter 15 Subchapter B. Keeping those source layers separate prevents a 30-day deposit rule from being misapplied to an urgent gas, electric, water or sewer termination problem.
What the utility layer protects
- Advance notice before covered service termination for landlord nonpayment.
- A statutory path for affected tenants to keep or restore covered service.
- Recovery of qualifying payments made to the utility because the landlord did not pay.
- Void waiver of the subchapter’s tenant rights.
- Anti-retaliation protections for exercising the continued-service or recovery rights.
- Owner account duties for rental property that is not individually metered.
Official sources
Primary law for first-year and later-year deposit limits, escrow notice and interest after the second anniversary.
Pennsylvania General AssemblySection 512 — recovery of improperly held escrow funds ↗Primary law for the 30-day damage list/refund framework, written new-address rule and statutory remedies.
Pennsylvania General Assembly66 Pa.C.S. Chapter 15, Subchapter B — Discontinuance of Service to Leased Premises ↗Current official Public Utility Code provisions defining landlord ratepayers and covered tenants and setting notice, continued-service, nonwaiver, anti-retaliation and owner-account duties for covered leased premises.
Pennsylvania General Assembly66 Pa.C.S. § 1527 — Right of tenants to continued service ↗Current official section describing how affected tenants may keep or restore covered utility service after landlord nonpayment and the payment framework for the preceding billing month and later service.
Pennsylvania General Assembly66 Pa.C.S. § 1529 — Right of tenant to recover payments ↗Current official section allowing a tenant who pays the utility on account of landlord-ratepayer nonpayment under the subchapter to recover that payment through rent/operating-expense deduction or reimbursement from the landlord ratepayer.