Do ground level stairs need railing?

[Will Fahmy]

Hello, I just recently acquired my first rental property in Pennsylvania and a friend told me I'm probably going to need to install railing. My first question is do I actually need to install railing on some of or all of these stair cases? If I do need railings installed would it be wiser to get a contractor to install them so they meet code or would someone with very little experience be able to do it?

Front stairs; these look ground level and I heard ground level stairs don't need railings is that true?

Back stairs; these look ground level as well

Front door stairs are not ground level but I don't know if there are enough stairs to require a railing

Any help is appreciated! Thank you!

[Taye N.]

This is easy, no its is not needed why? Existing nonconforming. If you didn't touch and it like that and it not super safely issue. Then no you do not need to add railing. This is from the uniform building code.

Unless you upgrade or fix it then you need to bring it up to code.