Title 2A, Title 2A: ADMINISTRATION OF CIVIL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

2A:42-141 Preservation Loan Revolving Fund to make grants, loans to receivers. 28. a. Beginning in the fiscal year in which P.L.2003, c.295 (C.2A:42-114 et al.) becomes effective, subject to the availability of funds in the Neighborhood Preservation Nonlapsing Revolving Fund esta…

2A:42-142 Rules, regulations. 31. a. The commissioner shall, within six months of the enactment of P.L.2003, c.295 (C.2A:42-114 et al.), adopt rules and regulations concerning registration of qualified entities. Pending the adoption of such rules and regulations by the commission…

2A:42-143 Procedures for collection of emergency contact information for senior citizen occupants; violations, penalties; definitions. 1. a. An administrator shall establish and implement procedures for the collection of emergency contact information for senior citizen occupants,…

2A:42-144 Definitions. 1. As used in this act: "Emergency period" means the period during which a public health emergency exists as declared by the Governor in Executive Order No. 103 of 2020, as extended, and the 60 days following the conclusion of this period. "Emergency period…

2A:42-145 Confidentiality, unavailability to public. 2. An emergency period nonpayment court record shall be confidential and unavailable to the public. L.2021, c.189, s.2.

2A:42-146 Actions to ensure records kept confidential, unavailable to public. 3. a. Any New Jersey public entity that maintains a written or automated record or file of emergency period nonpayment court records shall take appropriate actions to ensure that these records are kept …

2A:42-147 Evaluation of prospective tenant. 4. a. When evaluating a prospective tenant, a landlord shall not consider an emergency period nonpayment court record. b. A person, tenant screening service, or other entity, shall not knowingly provide court filing information or infor…

2A:42-148 Violations, penalties. 5. Any person who knowingly violates section 4 of this act by revealing to the public an emergency period nonpayment court record, by considering an emergency period nonpayment court record in the evaluation of a prospective tenant, or by failing …

2A:42-2. Levy subject to landlord's lien; time of sale; notice If any goods or chattels, in or upon any real property as provided by section 2A:42-1 of this title, shall be taken by virtue of any execution, attachment or other process and removed from the premises, the same shall…

2A:42-3. Goods and chattels removed openly and in daytime; notice to defendant No such goods and chattels shall be removed from the leased premises by the sheriff or other officer, except openly and in the daytime, and not then unless such officer shall, at the time of such remov…

2A:42-4. Undertenant's liability for rent When premises shall be underlet by any tenant, the undertenant shall be liable to the lessor or landlord for the rent which shall accrue from and after notice in writing served for that purpose upon the undertenant, or which shall be unpa…

2A:42-5. Holding over by tenant after giving notice of quitting; double rent recoverable If a tenant of real estate shall give notice of his intention to quit the premises by him held at a time specified in such notice, and shall not deliver up the possession of such real estate …

2A:42-6. Willful holding over by tenant after expiration of term; notice to deliver possession; penalty When a tenant for any term or any other person coming into possession of any real estate by, from or under, or by collusion with such tenant, willfully holds over any such real…

2A:42-6.1. Grace period for payment of rent 1. A person to whom rent is due and payable on the first of the month upon a lease or other agreement shall allow a period of five business days grace in which the rent due shall be paid. No delinquency or other late charge shall be mad…

2A:42-6.2. Violations; disorderly persons Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be a disorderly person. L.1976, c. 100, s. 2, eff. Oct. 7, 1976.

2A:42-6.3. Applicability of act 3. The provisions of this act shall only be applicable to premises rented or leased by senior citizens receiving Social Security Old Age Pensions, Railroad Retirement Pensions or other governmental pensions in lieu of Social Security Old Age Pensio…

2A:42-7. Action for possession for nonpayment of rent; service of summons A landlord or lessor to whom 1 year's rent in arrear is due, and who shall have the right to re-enter the demised premises for nonpayment thereof, may without a formal demand or re-entry, institute an actio…

2A:42-74. Legislative findings The Legislature finds: (a) Many citizens of the State of New Jersey are required to reside in multiple dwelling units which fail to meet minimum standards of safety and sanitation and are compelled to pay rents disproportionate to the value of the f…

2A:42-75. Definitions The following terms whenever used or referred to in this act shall have the following respective meanings for the purposes of this act, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context. (a) "Public officer" shall mean the officer, officers, board …

2A:42-76. Promulgation of state housing code; scope of standards Within 60 days following the effective date of this act the Bureau of Housing shall promulgate a State Housing Code which shall be effective in any municipality adopting an ordinance under this act. Said code shall …

2A:42-77. Authority to adopt ordinance regulating rents and possession of space in substandard multiple dwellings; provisions Whenever the governing body of a municipality finds that the health and safety of residents of that municipality are impaired or threatened by the existen…

2A:42-78. Registration of owners and management of multiple dwellings Any ordinance adopted under this act may provide for the registration of the owners and management of every multiple dwelling in the municipality. Such registration shall be with the clerk of the municipality u…

2A:42-8. Judgment and execution bar to relief, except appeal A lessee or other person claiming or deriving title under a lease who suffers judgment in said action for possession and execution to be executed thereon, without paying the rent and arrears, together with costs and wit…

2A:42-84.1. Definitions As used in this act: a. "Completion of construction" means issuance of a certificate of occupancy pursuant to section 15 of the "State Uniform Construction Code Act," P.L. 1975, c. 217 (C. 52:27D-133); b. "Constructed" means constructed, erected or convert…

2A:42-84.2. Applicability of municipal rent control ordinances 2. a. In any municipality which has enacted or which hereafter enacts a rent control or rent leveling ordinance, other than under the authority of P.L.1966, c.168 (C.2A:42-74 et seq.), those provisions of the ordinanc…

2A:42-84.3. Notice of exemption to tenants The owner of any multiple dwelling exempted from a rent control or rent leveling ordinance pursuant to this act, shall, prior to entering into any lease with a person for tenancy of any premises located in the multiple dwelling, furnish …

2A:42-84.4. Filing of owner's claim of exemption The owner of any multiple dwelling claiming an exemption from a rent control or rent leveling ordinance pursuant to this act shall file with the municipal construction official, at least 30 days prior to the issuance of a certifica…

2A:42-84.5. Exemptions from rent control, leveling, stabilization; legislative intent 5. a. It is the intent of P.L.1987, c.153 (C.2A:42-84.1 et seq.), that the exemption from rent control or rent leveling ordinances afforded under P.L.1987, c.153 (C.2A:42-84.1 et seq.) shall app…

2A:42-84.6. Construction of multiple dwellings encouraged It is the intent of this act to establish an experimental program whereby the construction of multiple dwellings in this State shall be encouraged, and the marketability of those multiple dwellings shall be maintained, to …

2A:42-85. Findings The Legislature finds: a. Many citizens of the State of New Jersey are required to reside in dwelling units which fail to meet minimum standards of safety and sanitation; b. It is essential to the health, safety and general welfare of the people of the State th…

2A:42-86. Definitions The following terms whenever used or referred to in this act shall have the following respective meanings, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context. a. "Public officer" shall mean the officer, officers, board or body who is or are authoriz…

2A:42-87. Deposit of rents into court A proceeding by a public officer, tenant, or tenants of a dwelling for a judgment directing the deposit of rents into court and their use for the purpose of remedying conditions in substantial violation of the standards of fitness for human h…

2A:42-88. Grounds for action a. The public officer or any tenant occupying a dwelling may maintain a proceeding as provided in this act, upon the grounds that there exists in such dwellings or in housing space thereof a lack of heat or of running water or of light or of electrici…

2A:42-89. Institution of action; service and notice of petition a. A proceeding prescribed by this act shall be commenced by the service of a petition and notice of a petition. A notice of petition may be issued only by a judge or a clerk of the court. b. Notice of the proceeding…

2A:42-9. Dismissal on payment of rent and costs; resumption of lease If the tenant or his assignee shall at any time before the trial in the action for possession of the demised premises, pay or tender to the lessor or landlord, his executor, administrator or attorney, or pay int…

2A:42-90. Contents of petition The petition shall: a. Set forth material facts showing that there exists in such dwelling or any housing space thereof one or more of the following: (1) a lack of heat or of running water or of light or electricity or of adequate sewage disposal fa…

2A:42-91. Defenses to action It shall be a sufficient defense to the proceeding, if the owner or any mortgagee or lienor of record establishes that: a. The condition or conditions alleged in the petition did not in fact exist or that such condition or conditions have been removed…

2A:42-92. Judgment; service upon nonpetitioning tenants; deposit of rents with clerk of court The court shall proceed in a summary manner and shall render a judgment either: a. Dismissing the petition for failure to affirmatively establish the allegations thereof or because of th…

2A:42-93. Order permitting performance of work in lieu of judgment; security; failure to exercise due diligence; hearing; judgment; appointment of administrator; powers a. If, after a trial, the court shall determine that the facts alleged in the petition have been affirmatively …

2A:42-94. Accounts of receipts and expenditures; presentation or settlement; notice The court shall require the keeping of written accounts itemizing the receipts and expenditures under an order issued pursuant to this act, which shall be open to inspection by the owner, any mort…

2A:42-95. Compensation of administrator; bond The court may allow from the rent moneys or security on deposit a reasonable amount for the services of an administrator appointed under the provisions of this act. The administrator so appointed shall furnish a bond, the amount and f…

2A:42-96. Waiver of provisions of act Any provision of a lease or other agreement whereby any provision of this act for the benefit of a tenant, resident or occupant of a dwelling is waived, shall be deemed against public policy and shall be void. L.1971, c. 224, s. 12, eff. June…

2A:42A-10. Farmers immunity for invitees-pickers 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, an owner, lessee or occupant of agricultural or horticultural land shall not have a legal duty to protect a person who is invited onto the land for the purposes of picki…

2A:42A-2 Definitions. 1. As used in P.L.1968, c.73 (C.2A:42A-2 et seq.): "All-terrain vehicle" means a motor vehicle, designed to travel over any terrain, of a type possessing between three and six non-highway tires, but shall not include golf carts. "Dirt bike" means a motor pow…

2A:42A-3. No duty to keep premises safe 2. Except as provided in section 3 of this act: a. An owner, lessee or occupant of premises, whether or not posted as provided in section 23:7-7 of the Revised Statutes, and whether or not improved or maintained in a natural condition, or u…

2A:42A-4. Liability towards persons injured on premises This act shall not limit the liability which would otherwise exist: a. For willful or malicious failure to guard, or to warn against, a dangerous condition, use, structure or activity; or b. For injury suffered in any case w…