(a) Except as provided in (b) below, the owner or other person responsible for the management or control
of a multiple dwelling shall, upon the written request of a tenant of a unit in which a child or children 10
years of age or under reside or are regularly present for a substantial period of time, provide, install and
maintain approved child-protection window guards on the windows of the dwelling unit and on any windows
in the public halls of the multiple dwelling.
(b) The requirements of this subchapter shall not apply to:
1. Any window, which gives access to a fire escape;
2. Any window, which is not designed to open;
3. Any unit that is owner-occupied;
4. Any seasonal rental units; or
5. Any window on the first floor if the sill of such window is six feet or less above grade as measured at
the location of the window and there is no hazardous condition at that location that would necessitate
the installation of a window guard.
(c) All leases offered to tenants in multiple dwellings shall contain a clear, legible and conspicuous notice,
in prominent boldface type, advising tenants and prospective tenants that the owner is required by law to
provide, install and maintain window guards in the unit of any tenant who has a child or children 10 years of
age or younger living in the unit or regularly present there for a substantial period of time and makes a
written request to the owner or the owner's representative that the window guards be installed, and that the
owner is also required, upon the written request of any such tenant, to provide, install and maintain window
guards in the building hallways to which persons in the tenant's unit have access without having to go out of
the building, other than hallways on the first floor in which there is no window having a