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My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Pennsylvania
Hello, im trying to figure out what the repercussions are for living in an illegal sub-lease? The landlord knows about it and does not care, but it is technically illegal due to local township regulations. What kind of "punishment" is the township capable of inflicting, aside from evicting those living there? Thanks.
What township regulation are you talking about that would prevent a sublease? Please identify the ordinance.
The regulation that states anyone with student status (even grad students) can only rent "student approved" houses, so subleasing a non-student approved house to students is still illegal.
if there is a local ordinance restricting where students can live, that ordinance would also define what the penalties are for violation of the regulations are and who it is applied to (does the ordinance apply to landlords, or to students?)
the ordinance would also need to define who is considered to be a student and would have to define who had what reporting responsibilities (are students required to inform landlords of their status, are landlords required to ask? are landlords required to investigate or send tenant names to the schools to see who is a student?)
at the very least to dig any further you have to say what municipality you live in