Pennsylvania Statutes Title 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations § 15097. Violation of act a misdemeanor;  penalty

Any person who, after the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eight, conducts any tenement-house in any city of the first class, without having secured a license therefor from the Mayor, or who continues to conduct any tenement-house after such license has expired or has been revoked, or who at any time fails to display the license as hereinbefore required, or who neglects or refuses to maintain any tenement-house in the condition hereinbefore prescribed, or who makes any false statement in any application for a license, or who violates in any way any of the provisions of this act or any of the rules and regulations of the department of public health and charities pertaining to tenement-houses, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.