Lease Disclosure Laws & Required Lease Terms by State

Name: Lease Disclosure Laws & Required Lease Terms by US State
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A 50-state comparison for residential rentals, with every state verified against official sources — the statutes, the administrative codes, the enrolled acts where the published code runs behind them, the agency forms themselves, and, where a rule comes from the courts, the opinions. It covers what a landlord must tell or give a tenant at or before signing: whether the lease must be written and copied to the tenant, who must be named as owner or agent, which tenant-rights statements and lease terms are prescribed, whether a move-in condition report is required, every state hazard and flood disclosure with its trigger and form, and which lease clauses the state voids. Each row shows its own verified date, and each state links to its own page with every duty's timing, form, threshold, remedy and full citations.

In 35 states a landlord must tell the tenant who owns or manages the property, 15 states prescribe a tenant-rights document or lease text, 14 require a move-in condition report outright or when a deposit is taken, 11 require flood disclosure to renters, and 29 list the lease clauses that are void — but 20 states have no in-force state hazard disclosure beyond the federal lead-paint rule.

What the 50-state data shows

35 states require a landlord to disclose the owner's or managing agent's identity to the tenant by statute or rule, 8 of them with a telephone number (California, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Utah); 1 requires it only on the tenant's request (Texas); 3 have a registration statute with nothing owed to the tenant (New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania); 1 deems the agent the owner unless the lease says otherwise (Wyoming); and 10 have no duty at all: Arkansas, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia.
15 states prescribe a general tenant-rights document or words the lease itself must carry: a document in 3 (Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois), lease text in 8 (California, Colorado, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin), and both in 4 (Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Virginia). 1 publishes only a model lease no landlord must use (Maine), 2 require only a notice of where the act can be read (Arizona, Minnesota), and 32 prescribe none.
A move-in condition report is required in 8 states (Arizona, Hawaii, Kansas, Nevada, North Dakota, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin) and required only where a deposit is taken in 6 (Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Washington); in 7 more it exists only as an offer the landlord must make, at the landlord's option, or as a notice of a statutory right (Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York); 29 states require none.
Counting only in-force state duties to disclose, hand over, attach or post a hazard notice as part of renting: none in 20 states, 1 in 15 states, 2 in 7 states, 3 in 5 states (Arizona, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Washington), 4 in 2 states (Maryland, Virginia), 7 in 1 state (California). By hazard: methamphetamine in 10 states, and 7 more states bar renting the affected property instead of requiring disclosure (Colorado, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Wyoming); a state lead add-on in 10 states, and 1 more state bars renting the affected property instead of requiring disclosure (South Carolina); bed bugs in 6 states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine); mold in 5 states (California, Maryland, Montana, Virginia, Washington); radon in 4 states (Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Maine); asbestos in 1 state (New Hampshire); 15 states carry a statutory disclosure of another hazard or condition (Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin).
Not counted above: 9 states have a hazard notice that fires only on an event during the tenancy (Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia), 4 have a registry or certificate owed to the state with nothing to the tenant (Maryland, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin), and 4 enacted duties are not yet in force: California (mold, on an agency action); Delaware (lead, by March 1, 2028, or earlier as the section provides); New Jersey (Lead in drinking water disclosure, no earlier than October 21, 2026); Oregon (Drinking water from an exempt well, from January 1, 2027).
11 states require flood disclosure to renters: flood zone in 3 (California, Oregon, Vermont); flood history in 3 (Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma); zone and history in 4 (Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Texas); elevation in 1 (Indiana). Washington's takes effect January 1, 2027. 38 states have none, and in those the only flood disclosure on the books, where one exists, is a seller's duty that does not reach a lease.
29 states list the lease clauses that are void or prohibited (Wisconsin voids the whole lease for a listed clause); 18 rely on a general anti-waiver, unconscionability or exculpation rule alone; 2 make the act's duties re-allocable by agreement (Utah, Wyoming); and 1 voids nothing (Idaho). In 22 states a prohibited clause is simply unenforceable; 14 attach damages, a rent multiple or a tiered sanction to using one; 11 carry a sanction of another shape, named on the state page.
Attorney-fee clauses: 14 states convert a one-way clause or award fees to the prevailing party by statute — a reciprocity rule in 6 (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York), mandatory prevailing-party fees in 5 (Alaska, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon), and a statutory award to whichever party prevails in 3 (Florida, Idaho, Texas); 14 void a landlord's fee clause one or both ways (Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Rhode Island, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin); 2 cap it (Hawaii, North Carolina); 3 limit fees to named actions (Arizona, Louisiana, North Dakota); and in 17 a one-way landlord clause stands.
Only 1 state requires every residential lease to be written (New Mexico), and 3 require it above a threshold (Maryland, Minnesota, Washington). 5 states put a deadline on giving the tenant a copy of the signed lease (Texas 3 business days; Colorado 7 calendar days; Virginia 10 business days; California 15 calendar days; Massachusetts 30 calendar days); 10 require a copy with no deadline; 35 require none.
9 states expressly preempt local disclosure or lease-content rules (Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, Montana, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin); 6 expressly authorize them (Connecticut, Hawaii, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Vermont); 15 preempt some subjects and authorize others; 20 say nothing either way.
36 agency-prescribed documents across 25 states — tenant-rights statements, model leases, hazard brochures and flood forms — are carried with the issuing agency and its revision printed on each, and every agency page is checked weekly.
18 signed acts in 12 states will change an answer on these pages on dates from October 1, 2026 to January 1, 2030; 44 live bills would. 48 court decisions, each read in full, are carried in 32 states; in 10 states the official code page departs from the enacted law and the page says how (Delaware, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont).

Cite this data: "Landlord Atlas, Lease Disclosure Laws & Required Lease Terms by State (verified September 13, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/lease-disclosures/" — free to cite and republish with a link (how these records are verified and what the topic covers). Every count above is tallied from the table below and the state pages.

Owner identity, required statements, move-in reports, flood, void clauses, and hazard counts

State	Owner/agent identity	Required statement	Move-in report	Flood disclosure	Void-clause posture	Statutory hazard disclosures	Details
Alabama verified September 13, 2026	Required — in the lease or in a separate writing	None	None	None	Statutory list	1	Full law & citations
Alaska verified September 13, 2026	Required — in a separate writing	None	Landlord's option; form set by statute	None	Statutory list	None in force	Full law & citations
Arizona verified September 13, 2026	Required — in a separate writing	Notice of where the act can be read	Required	None	Statutory list	3	Full law & citations
Arkansas verified September 13, 2026	No duty	None	Landlord's option; form set by statute	None	General rule only	None in force	Full law & citations
California verified September 11, 2026	Required — in the lease or by posting	Prescribed lease text	None	Yes — flood zone	Statutory list	7 *	Full law & citations
Colorado verified September 13, 2026	Required — in the lease	Prescribed lease text	None	None	Statutory list	2 *	Full law & citations
Connecticut verified September 11, 2026	Required — in a separate writing	Prescribed document	Must be offered	None	Statutory list	2	Full law & citations
Delaware verified September 13, 2026	Required — in the lease or on request	Prescribed document	None	None	Statutory list	1 *	Full law & citations
Florida verified September 13, 2026	Required — in the lease or in a separate writing	None	None	Yes — flood history	Statutory list	1 *	Full law & citations
Georgia verified September 13, 2026	Required — in the lease or in a separate writing	None	Required if a deposit is taken	Yes — flood history	General rule only	None in force *	Full law & citations
Hawaii verified September 13, 2026	Required — in the lease, in a separate writing, by posting, or on request	None	Required	None	Statutory list	None in force	Full law & citations
Idaho verified September 13, 2026	No duty	None	None	None	None	None in force	Full law & citations
Illinois verified September 11, 2026	No duty	Prescribed document	None	Yes — zone and history	General rule only	2	Full law & citations
Indiana verified September 13, 2026	Required — in the lease or in a separate writing	None	None	Yes — elevation	General rule only	1	Full law & citations
Iowa verified September 13, 2026	Required — in a separate writing	None	None	None	Statutory list	1 *	Full law & citations
Kansas verified September 13, 2026	Required — in a separate writing	None	Required	None	Statutory list	None in force	Full law & citations
Kentucky verified September 13, 2026	Required — in a separate writing	None	Required if a deposit is taken	None	Statutory list	1	Full law & citations
Louisiana verified September 13, 2026	No duty	None	None	None	General rule only	None in force	Full law & citations
Maine verified September 13, 2026	No duty	Model document only; use is optional	None	None	Statutory list	3 *	Full law & citations
Maryland verified September 11, 2026	Required — in the lease or by posting	Document and lease text	Notice of a statutory right	None	Statutory list	4 *	Full law & citations
Massachusetts verified September 11, 2026	Required — in the lease, in a separate writing, or by posting	Document and lease text	Required if a deposit is taken	None	Statutory list	1	Full law & citations
Michigan verified September 13, 2026	Required — in the lease or in a separate writing	Prescribed lease text	Required if a deposit is taken	None	Statutory list	None in force	Full law & citations
Minnesota verified September 13, 2026	Required — in the lease, in a separate writing, or by posting	Notice of where the act can be read	Notice of a statutory right	None	General rule only	1 *	Full law & citations
Mississippi verified September 13, 2026	No duty	None	None	None	General rule only	None in force	Full law & citations
Missouri verified September 13, 2026	Required — in the lease or in a separate writing	None	None	None	General rule only	2	Full law & citations
Montana verified September 13, 2026	Required — in the lease or in a separate writing	None	Required if a deposit is taken	None	Statutory list	2	Full law & citations
Nebraska verified September 13, 2026	Required — in the lease or in a separate writing	None	None	None	Statutory list	None in force *	Full law & citations
Nevada verified September 13, 2026	Required — in a separate writing, in the lease, or by posting	Prescribed lease text	Required	None	Statutory list	None in force	Full law & citations
New Hampshire verified September 13, 2026	Registration filing only; nothing owed to the tenant	None	Notice of a statutory right	None	General rule only	3	Full law & citations
New Jersey verified September 11, 2026	Required — in a separate writing or by public registration	Document and lease text	None	Yes — zone and history	General rule only	3 *	Full law & citations
New Mexico verified September 13, 2026	Required — in a separate writing	None	None	None	General rule only	None in force	Full law & citations
New York verified September 11, 2026	Registration filing only; nothing owed to the tenant	Prescribed lease text	Must be offered	Yes — zone and history	Statutory list	2 *	Full law & citations
North Carolina verified September 13, 2026	No duty	None	None	None	General rule only	1 *	Full law & citations
North Dakota verified September 13, 2026	No duty	None	Required	None	General rule only	None in force	Full law & citations
Ohio verified September 13, 2026	Required — in the lease or in a separate writing	None	None	None	Statutory list	None in force *	Full law & citations
Oklahoma verified September 13, 2026	Required — in the lease or in a separate writing	None	None	Yes — flood history	Statutory list	1	Full law & citations
Oregon verified September 11, 2026	Required — in the lease or in a separate writing	None	None	Yes — flood zone	Statutory list	None in force *	Full law & citations
Pennsylvania verified September 13, 2026	Registration filing only; nothing owed to the tenant	Prescribed lease text	None	None	General rule only	None in force	Full law & citations
Rhode Island verified September 13, 2026	Required — in the lease or in a separate writing	None	None	None	Statutory list	1	Full law & citations
South Carolina verified September 13, 2026	Required — in the lease or in a separate writing	None	None	None	Statutory list	None in force *	Full law & citations
South Dakota verified September 13, 2026	No duty	None	None	None	General rule only	1	Full law & citations
Tennessee verified September 13, 2026	Required — in the lease or in a separate writing	None	None	None	Statutory list	None in force *	Full law & citations
Texas verified September 11, 2026	On the tenant's request only	Prescribed lease text	None	Yes — zone and history	General rule only	None in force	Full law & citations
Utah verified September 13, 2026	Required — in a separate writing	None	Required	None	Duties re-allocable by agreement	1	Full law & citations
Vermont verified September 13, 2026	Required — by posting	None	None	Yes — flood zone	General rule only	1	Full law & citations
Virginia verified September 11, 2026	Required — in a separate writing	Document and lease text	Required	None	Statutory list	4 *	Full law & citations
Washington verified September 11, 2026	Required — in the lease or by posting	None	Required if a deposit is taken	Enacted; in force January 1, 2027 *	Statutory list	3	Full law & citations
West Virginia verified September 13, 2026	No duty	None	None	None	General rule only	1	Full law & citations
Wisconsin verified September 11, 2026	Required — in the lease or in a separate writing	Prescribed lease text	Required	None	Statutory list; a listed clause voids the whole lease	2 *	Full law & citations
Wyoming verified September 13, 2026	None; the agent is deemed the owner unless the lease says otherwise	None	None	None	Duties re-allocable by agreement	None in force *	Full law & citations

* Conditions apply — see the state's page for the full rule and citations.

Each cell is the state's statutory posture exactly as the cited section states it. A required statement may be an agency form the landlord must attach or words the lease itself must carry; the state page says which, with the form's revision and a link to the agency's own page. The hazard count is the number of separate in-force state duties to disclose, hand over, attach or post a hazard notice as part of renting; duties that fire only on an event during the tenancy, rules that bar renting a contaminated unit instead of requiring disclosure, and registries owed to the state are listed on the state page and are not counted. The federal lead-paint rule applies in every state and is not counted anywhere. Where a city adds its own lease packet, the state page says so; no city rule is carried in these cells.

No figure appears here unless it was verified against official state sources on the date shown — see how we verify.

Federal rules that apply in every state

The federal layer for the lease-disclosures topic, carried once for the whole site. Every row names who it binds: most federal lease attachments bind only a landlord who takes a voucher or holds HUD-assisted or HUD-insured property, and the one rule that binds every landlord (the lead-paint disclosure rule) is a floor that state law may add to. No state record restates these rows; a state record says only where its own law references or extends them. Each row below says who it binds before it says what it requires.

Lead-based paint disclosure for leases of pre-1978 housing

Who it binds: Every landlord of housing built before 1978. Status: In force. Document: Protect Your Family From Lead in Your Home (EPA, CPSC and HUD pamphlet) — EPA-747-K-26-001, January 2026; EPA also publishes a supplement for English versions older than January 2026.

Before a tenant is obligated under any lease of housing built before 1978, the lessor must give the tenant an EPA-approved lead hazard information pamphlet, disclose the presence of any known lead-based paint or lead-based paint hazards with the basis, location and condition, and provide any available records or reports, including those covering common areas. Every lease of such housing must include, as an attachment or within the contract and in the language of the contract, a Lead Warning Statement in the words the rule sets out, the lessor's disclosure or a statement of no knowledge, a list of the records provided or a statement that none are available, the tenant's signed statement of receipt, an agent's statement where an agent is involved, and dated signatures. The lessor and any agent keep the completed attachment for at least three years from the start of the lease. Exempt: housing certified lead-free by a certified inspector; leases of 100 days or less where no renewal or extension can occur; renewals where everything was already disclosed and no new information has reached the lessor; and housing for the elderly or persons with disabilities and zero-bedroom dwellings, which fall outside the definition of target housing (the statute and EPA's rule word the under-six-child exception one way and HUD's rule another; the statutory wording governs). The rule imposes no duty to test, and the ten-day inspection period is a purchaser's right only. A knowing violation carries a civil penalty of up to $49,772 per violation assessed by EPA (for penalties assessed on or after January 8, 2025; the $11,000 figure still printed in the rule is superseded) and up to $22,263 per violation assessed by HUD, plus liability to the tenant for three times the damages incurred, with costs and fees; the lease itself remains valid. The current pamphlet edition is January 2026; a landlord holding older English stock may add EPA's supplement. State law may add its own forms, registries and certificates on top of this rule, and every state page says whether it does.

Sources: 42 U.S.C. § 4852d (a)–(c); 40 CFR § 745.101 (a)–(d); 40 CFR § 745.103 target housing; 0-bedroom dwelling; 40 CFR § 745.107 (a); 40 CFR § 745.113 (b), (c)(1); 40 CFR § 745.118 (c)–(f); 40 CFR § 19.4 Table 1, 15 U.S.C. 2615(a)(1) and 42 U.S.C. 4852d(b)(5); 24 CFR § 35.86 target housing; 24 CFR § 35.88 (a); 24 CFR § 35.92 (b), (c)(1); 24 CFR § 30.65 (b); EPA, Protect Your Family From Lead in Your Home (January 2026) colophon; EPA, Protect Your Family From Lead in Your Home (pamphlet page) ; EPA, Supplement for English Versions Older than January 2026

Flood acknowledgment in leases of HUD-assisted, HUD-acquired and HUD-insured property

Who it binds: Owners of HUD-assisted, HUD-insured or HUD-acquired rental property in a floodplain. Status: In force.

For HUD-assisted, HUD-acquired and HUD-insured rental property within the federal flood risk management standard floodplain, new and renewal leases must include acknowledgments signed by residents that they have been advised the property is in a floodplain and that flood insurance is available for their personal property, and the notification must also give the location of ingress and egress routes relative to the floodplain, available emergency notification resources, and the property's emergency procedures in the event of flooding. The floodplain this rule uses is set by HUD's own standard and is generally wider than the mapped special flood hazard area. The duty has applied since May 23, 2024. It reaches only property that carries HUD assistance, acquisition or insurance; whether it reaches a unit rented to a tenant-based voucher holder is not settled by the rule's text. The lender notice in the National Flood Insurance Act (42 U.S.C. 4104a) is a duty on lending institutions, not on landlords, even though it names lessees.

Sources: 24 CFR § 55.4 (b); 24 CFR § 55.7

Housing Choice Voucher written lease and tenancy addendum

Who it binds: Landlords renting to a Housing Choice Voucher holder. Status: In force. Document: Tenancy Addendum, Section 8 Tenant-Based Assistance, Housing Choice Voucher Program (form HUD-52641-A) — 04/2023 (the form HUD serves today; its printed OMB approval expiration of April 30, 2026 has passed without a new edition).

A landlord who rents to a Housing Choice Voucher holder must enter a written lease executed by the owner and the tenant, using the landlord's standard lease for unassisted tenants where one exists, and must add every provision of the HUD-prescribed tenancy addendum to it word for word; the tenant may enforce the addendum against the owner and its terms prevail over any other provision of the lease. The lease must state the names of the owner and tenant, the unit, the term and any renewal provisions, the monthly rent to owner, and which utilities and appliances the owner supplies and which the family supplies. The public housing agency may decline to approve a tenancy whose lease does not comply with state or local law, and the owner must notify the agency at least sixty days before any change in the rent to owner takes effect. Paragraph 9 of the addendum carries the required description of the protections for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.

Sources: 24 CFR § 982.308 (b), (c), (d), (f)(2), (g)(4); Form HUD-52641-A (04/2023) face and ¶ 9

Notice of occupancy rights under the Violence Against Women Act and the certification form

Who it binds: Covered housing providers under the Violence Against Women Act (federally assisted programs). Status: In force. Document: Notice of Occupancy Rights Under the Violence Against Women Act (form HUD-5380) and Certification of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, or Stalking (form HUD-5382) — OMB approval expires January 31, 2028; neither form carries a month-and-year revision stamp.

A covered housing provider must give each applicant and each tenant HUD's notice of occupancy rights and HUD's certification form no later than the time an applicant is denied, the time a tenant is admitted or provided assistance, and with any notice of eviction or termination of assistance, in multiple languages consistent with HUD guidance. For the Housing Choice Voucher, project-based voucher, public housing and project-based Section 8 programs, the HUD-required lease, lease addendum or tenancy addendum must also describe the specific protections afforded to victims. Which entity is the covered housing provider is program-specific and may differ by duty: for a tenant-based voucher the public housing agency administers admission and the owner is bound through the tenancy addendum, while for project-based programs the owner is the provider. The notice itself tells tenants that the provider must give them language assistance about these protections.

Sources: 24 CFR § 5.2005 (a)(1)–(4); 24 CFR § 5.2003 covered housing provider; Form HUD-5380 face; Form HUD-5382 face

Thirty-day pre-eviction notification as a required lease provision (project-based Section 8)

Who it binds: Owners of project-based Section 8 housing. Status: In force.

The lease for a project-based Section 8 unit must contain a provision or addendum that tenants will receive notification at least 30 days before a formal judicial eviction is filed. HUD published an interim final rule on February 26, 2026 to revoke this requirement, then on March 13, 2026 delayed that rule's effective date indefinitely and stated that the interim rule will be treated as a proposed rule and will never come into effect on its own; no final rule has issued, so the lease-provision duty remains in force. Tenants of covered properties keep the 30-day notice on nonpayment evictions that the federal CARES Act separately requires; each state's lease-termination page says how its courts read that notice.

Sources: 24 CFR § 880.606 (b); 91 FR 12301 (March 13, 2026), indefinite delay of the February 26, 2026 interim final rule DATES; supplementary information

Federal prohibited lease clauses and required addendum (project-based Section 8, part 883 projects)

Who it binds: Owners of project-based Section 8 housing. Status: In force.

For projects under 24 CFR part 883, the lease must contain the addendum the regulation prints (whose provisions prevail over any conflicting lease term) and none of the prohibited provisions the regulation lists: a confession of judgment; a clause letting the landlord seize or hold the tenant's property for rent or other charges; an exculpatory clause; a waiver of legal notice; a waiver of a legal proceeding; a waiver of jury trial; a waiver of the right to appeal a court decision; and a clause making the tenant chargeable with the cost of legal actions regardless of outcome. Part 880 and part 881 projects use the required and prohibited provisions set out in the developer's packet and the approved final proposal. A landlord outside these programs is bound only by the state's own void-clause list, which every state page carries.

Sources: 24 CFR § 880.606 (c)(1)–(2)

Electronic leases and signatures under the federal E-SIGN Act

Who it binds: Anyone who signs or delivers a lease electronically. Status: In force.

A lease or other record relating to a transaction in or affecting interstate commerce may not be denied legal effect, validity or enforceability solely because it is in electronic form or was signed electronically. Where another law requires information to be given to a consumer in writing, an electronic record satisfies that law only if the consumer has affirmatively consented after a clear and conspicuous statement of the right to a paper copy, the right to withdraw consent, the scope of the consent, the withdrawal procedure and the hardware and software needed, with the consent given in a way that reasonably demonstrates the consumer can access the electronic form; the Act does not change the content or timing of any required disclosure. The Act does not apply to a notice of default, acceleration, repossession, foreclosure or eviction, or of the right to cure, under a rental agreement for an individual's primary residence, nor to a notice canceling or terminating utility service. A state's own electronic-transactions act may displace the federal rule; each state page says whether the state adds a landlord-tenant carve-out.

Sources: 15 U.S.C. § 7001 (a), (c); 15 U.S.C. § 7003 (b)(2)(A)–(B)

Fair housing poster (a posting duty, not a lease term)

Who it binds: Everyone who offers a dwelling for rent. Status: In force. Document: Fair housing poster (Equal Housing Opportunity), 11 inches by 14 inches or an equivalent facsimile — Legend prescribed by 24 CFR 110.25 (unchanged since the 1988 amendments).

The Fair Housing Act creates no lease-content or pre-lease disclosure duty; it creates a posting duty. Everyone subject to the Act's sale-and-rental section must post and maintain a fair housing poster, prominently displayed so as to be readily apparent to all persons seeking housing, at any place of business where a dwelling is offered for rental and at the dwelling itself (a single-family dwelling not offered with other dwellings needs the poster only where it is offered through a broker, agent or person in the business of renting dwellings). A failure to display the poster is deemed prima facie evidence of a discriminatory housing practice in a complaint. State and local fair-housing posters with additional protected classes are separate duties.

Sources: 24 CFR § 110.10 (a), (b); 24 CFR § 110.30

Radon, mold, asbestos and methamphetamine: no federal disclosure duty to residential tenants

Who it binds: No one — no such federal duty exists. Status: No federal duty.

No federal statute or regulation requires a residential landlord to disclose radon, mold, asbestos or methamphetamine contamination to a tenant. The federal radon program, EPA's mold guidance and EPA's voluntary methamphetamine remediation guidelines recommend disclosure and do not require it; the asbestos-in-buildings rules reach schools; the only federal references to methamphetamine and tenants are grounds for terminating assistance in HUD programs. Where a state requires any of these disclosures, its state page carries the duty with its form, trigger and penalty.

Sources: 40 CFR part 745, subpart F (the only federal residential-lease disclosure rule)

Every row was read on its publisher's own site on September 13, 2026. How: Every row read on the publisher's own host on September 13, 2026: the electronic Code of Federal Regulations at its current issue (title 24 and title 40 up to date as of September 10, 2026) for 24 CFR 55.4, 55.7, 982.308, 5.2003, 5.2005, 880.606, 35.86, 35.88, 35.92, 30.65, 110.10 and 110.30 and 40 CFR 745.101, 745.103, 745.107, 745.113, 745.118 and 19.4, with each section's credit line read for currency; the United States Code on the House Office of the Law Revision Counsel's site (text current through September 12, 2026) for 42 U.S.C. 4852d and 15 U.S.C. 7001 and 7003; the EPA pamphlet Protect Your Family From Lead in Your Home as EPA serves it today, its colophon read (EPA-747-K-26-001, January 2026), and EPA's supplement for older English versions confirmed on EPA's page (last updated July 7, 2026); forms HUD-52641-A, HUD-5380 and HUD-5382 as HUD serves them today, their faces read for the form date and the OMB expiration; the Federal Register's document index searched for every 2026 action on the 30-day notification requirement (the February 26, 2026 interim final rule and the March 13, 2026 indefinite delay are the only two; no final rule has issued). The negative rows rest on the regulatory search recorded at the topic's scoping (September 11, 2026).