New Jersey Revised Statutes Title 55 - Tenement Houses And Public Housing

• Section 55:13a-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known as, and may be cited as, the "Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Law." L.1967, c. 76, s. 1, eff. May...
• Section 55:13a-2 - Declaration Of Policy; Liberal Construction
  This act being deemed and hereby declared remedial legislation necessary for the protection of the health and welfare of the residents of this State...
• Section 55:13a-3 - Definitions.
  3.The following terms whenever used or referred to in P.L.1967, c.76 (C.55:13A-1 et seq.) shall have the following respective meanings for the purposes thereof,...
• Section 55:13a-4 - Supervisor Of Bureau Of Housing Inspection; Administration And Enforcement Of Act
  The Bureau of Housing Inspection heretofore constituted in the Division of Housing and Urban Renewal in the Department of Community Affairs by section 23...
• Section 55:13a-5 - Board Of Housing Inspection Abolished; Powers, Functions, Duties Transferred.
  5. (a) The Board of Housing Inspection heretofore constituted in the Division of Housing and Urban Renewal in the Department of Community Affairs by...
• Section 55:13a-6 - Powers Of Commissioner.
  6.The commissioner is hereby granted and shall have and exercise, in addition to other powers herein granted, all the powers necessary and appropriate to...
• Section 55:13a-7 - Rules, Regulations.
  7.The commissioner shall issue and promulgate, in the manner specified in section 8 of P.L.1967, c.76 (C.55:13A-8), such regulations as the commissioner may deem...
• Section 55:13a-7.1 - Equipment With Smoke Detectors Or Alarms; Rules And Regulations
  Every hotel and multiple dwelling shall be equipped with smoke detectors or smoke alarms or both in conformance with rules and regulations promulgated by...
• Section 55:13a-7.2 - No Code Or Standard To Exceed Standards Under "State Uniform Construction Code Act"
  Nothing in this supplemental act shall permit the adoption of any code or standard which exceeds the standards adopted under the "State Uniform Construction...
• Section 55:13a-7.3 - Parking For Handicapped
  Any owner of a multiple dwelling which, as of the enactment of this act or at any time thereafter, provides parking to the occupants...
• Section 55:13a-7.4 - 5-unit Minimum
  This act shall not apply to any multiple dwelling with fewer than 5 units. L. 1985, c. 280, s. 2.
• Section 55:13a-7.5 - Internal Security Exemption
  No regulation establishing unit door or other internal security requirements or any other requirement not substantially related to the protection of the health, safety...
• Section 55:13a-7.6 - Applicable Provisions
  Except as otherwise set forth in sections 2, 3 and 4 of P.L. 1987, c. 270 (C. 55:13A-12.1, 55:13A-13.2, 55:13A-7.5), all provisions of P.L....
• Section 55:13a-7.7 - Hotel Room Notices, Procedures Followed In Event Of Fire Or Smoke
  1. a. The owner of a hotel shall post, in a prominent place in each dwelling unit, a notice that states: (1) The location...
• Section 55:13a-7.8 - Indirect Apportionment Of Heating Costs
  1. As used in this act, "indirect apportionment of heating costs" in a multiple dwelling means the charging to each dwelling unit within that...
• Section 55:13a-7.9 - Method Or Device, Approval, Requirements
  2. a. Any method or device used, or intended to be used, for the indirect apportionment of heating costs in a multiple dwelling shall...
• Section 55:13a-7.10 - Rules, Regulations
  3. The Commissioner of Community Affairs shall adopt and promulgate, in accordance with the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et...
• Section 55:13a-7.11 - Existing Systems, Use
  4. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 2 of this act, in any multiple dwelling where a system of indirect apportionment of heating costs is...
• Section 55:13a-7.12 - Definitions Relative To Child-protection Window Guards.
  1.As used in this act: "child-protection window guard" or "window guard" means a bar, screen or grille assembly designed to be installed in a...
• Section 55:13a-7.12a - Short Title.
  7.P.L.1995, c.120 (C.55:13A-7.12 et seq.) shall be known and may be cited as the "Robert E. Dwight, Jr., Raquan Ellis and Zahir Atkins Memorial...
• Section 55:13a-7.13 - Installation Of Window Guards, Maintenance, Violations, Penalties.
  2. a. (1) Except as provided in subsection b. of this section, the owner, lessor, agent or other person who manages or controls a...
• Section 55:13a-7.14 - Leases, Required Notices Advising Of Availability; Delivery, Posting.
  3. a. All leases offered to tenants in multiple dwellings shall contain a notice, conspicuously set forth therein in prominent boldface type, advising tenants...
• Section 55:13a-7.15 - Noninterference With Window Guards; Removal, Certain.
  4.No tenant or occupant of a multiple dwelling unit, or any other person, shall obstruct or interfere with the installation of child-protection window guards...
• Section 55:13a-7.16 - Rules, Regulations; Guidelines For Use, Orientation Programs.
  5. a. The commissioner is hereby authorized to make and promulgate, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), all regulations...
• Section 55:13a-7.17 - Carbon Monoxide Sensor Devices Required In Hotel, Multiple Dwelling
  2.Every unit of dwelling space in a hotel and multiple dwelling shall be equipped with one or more carbon monoxide sensor devices that bear...
• Section 55:13a-7.18 - Posting Of Drinking Water Test Reports In Multiple Dwellings.
  8. a. The owner of a multiple dwelling who is required to prepare a Consumer Confidence Report pursuant to the "Safe Drinking Water Act...
• Section 55:13a-8 - Transmittal Of Copies Of Regulations To Board; Publication; Hearing; Effective Date
  (a) Prior to the adoption, amendment, or repeal of any regulations pursuant to this act, the commissioner shall: (1) Transmit copies of the proposed...
• Section 55:13a-9 - Effect Of Regulations; Revision, Repeal Or Amendment
  (a) Any regulations issued by the commissioner pursuant to sections 7 and 8 of this act shall have the force and effect of law...
• Section 55:13a-10 - Construction Of Hotels Or Multiple Dwellings; Conversion Or Alteration; Compliance With Regulations
  (a) Any hotel or multiple dwelling the construction of which shall be commenced, or any building not constructed for use as a hotel or...
• Section 55:13a-11 - Conversion Or Alteration Of Existing Buildings; Exception From Regulations; Written Notice To Occupants Of Exceptions Which Affect Safety
  (a) Upon the application of the owner of any hotel or multiple dwelling, or any building not constructed for use as a hotel or...
• Section 55:13a-12 - Certificate Of Registration; Application; Fee; Appointment Of Agent; Notice Of Violation
  (a) The owner of each hotel, or of each multiple dwelling occupied or intended to be occupied by three or more persons living independently...
• Section 55:13a-12.1 - Retreat Lodging Facilities
  Retreat lodging facilities shall be subject to registration pursuant to section 12 of P.L. 1967, c. 76 (C. 55:13A-12) in the same manner as...
• Section 55:13a-12.2 - Lead Paint Inspection Requirements For Single And Two-family Rental Dwellings.
  1. a. The commissioner shall inspect every single-family and two-family rental dwelling in accordance with the "Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Law," P.L.1967, c.76 (C.55:13A-1...
• Section 55:13a-13 - Inspection; Fees.
  13. (a) Each multiple dwelling and each hotel shall be inspected at least once in every five years for the purpose of determining the...
• Section 55:13a-13a - Conduct Of Inspections
  a. Any inspection required under P.L. 1967, c. 76 (C. 55:13A-1 et seq.) shall be conducted by the commissioner except as provided in subsection...
• Section 55:13a-13.1 - Retirement Community; Exclusion From Definition Of Multiple Dwelling; Compliance With Fire Safety Standards; Self-inspection; Filing Checklist; Certification; Failure To Comply; Notice
  a. Any retirement community as defined in the "Retirement Community Full Disclosure Act," P.L.1969, c. 215 (C. 45:22A-1 et seq.) shall be exempt from...
• Section 55:13a-13.2 - Fee Exemption
  No fee shall be charged for the inspection of any retreat lodging facility, as otherwise required pursuant to section 13 of P.L. 1967, c....
• Section 55:13a-16 - Violations; Order To Terminate; Injunctive Relief
  (a) If the commissioner shall discover any violation of the provisions of this act or any rules and regulations promulgated thereunder upon any inspection...
• Section 55:13a-17 - Order To Vacate; Reinspection; Hearing; Injunctive Relief
  (a) If upon any inspection of any hotel or multiple dwelling the commissioner shall discover any violation of the provisions of this act or...
• Section 55:13a-18 - Aggrieved Persons; Hearing; Notice
  Any person aggrieved by any ruling, action, order, or notice of the commissioner pursuant to this act, except any order or notice issued by...
• Section 55:13a-19 - Violations, Penalties.
  19. (a) No person shall (1)Obstruct, hinder, delay or interfere with, by force or otherwise, the commissioner in the exercise of any power or...
• Section 55:13a-20 - Service Of Ruling, Notice Or Order
  (a) Notices required or permitted to be issued and served pursuant to this act shall be served as follows: (1). On the owner: (...
• Section 55:13a-20.1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Violation Disclosure Act." L.1975, c. 191, s. 1, eff. Aug. 16, 1975.
• Section 55:13a-20.2 - Mortgage Holder Of Record; Notice Of Failure By Owner To Abate Violations
  Whenever the Attorney General files an action in the Superior Court, on behalf of the Commissioner of Community Affairs, pursuant to section 6 (C....
• Section 55:13a-21 - Enforcement Of Provisions
  Each municipality of this State is hereby authorized to enforce the provisions of this act, and any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder, within the...
• Section 55:13a-22 - Offenses
  No offense committed, and no liability, penalty, or forfeiture, either civil or criminal, incurred, prior to the repeal or revision of any act or...
• Section 55:13a-23 - Actions Or Proceedings; Records
  The record or determination of any action or proceeding under this act, or any statement, report or record of any kind whatsoever obtained or...
• Section 55:13a-24 - Hearings; Rules Of Evidence
  In any hearing under this act required or permitted to be held before the commissioner, the commissioner shall not be bound to apply the...
• Section 55:13a-25 - Powers And Duties Of Local Boards Of Health Not Impaired
  (a) This act is not intended, and nothing in this act shall be construed, to abrogate or impair the powers and duties of local...
• Section 55:13a-26 - Fees And Penalties; Deposit
  The commissioner shall deposit with the State Treasurer for inclusion in the State Treasury any fee or penalty required or permitted to be paid...
• Section 55:13a-26.1 - Deposit Of 50% Of Penalty Moneys In Revolving Housing Development And Demonstration Grant Fund
  Fifty percent of all penalty moneys collected by the commissioner pursuant to section 19 of P.L.1967, c.76 (C.55:13A-19) shall be deposited in the Revolving...
• Section 55:13a-26.2 - Appropriation For Revolving Housing Development And Demonstration Grant Fund
  In the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1993, and in each fiscal year thereafter, there shall be appropriated to the Revolving Housing Development and...
• Section 55:13a-27 - Partial Invalidity
  If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence or other part of this act is adjudged unconstitutional or invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or...
• Section 55:13a-28 - Repeal
  (a) The following acts and parts of acts are repealed: chapters 9, 10 and 12 of Title 55 of the Revised Statutes; sections 55:11-1...
• Section 55:13b-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Rooming and Boarding House Act of 1979." L.1979, c. 496, s. 1.
• Section 55:13b-2 - Legislative Findings And Declarations
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: Whereas , Numerous citizens of this State reside in rooming and boarding houses which are either infrequently...
• Section 55:13b-3 - Terms Defined.
  3.As used in this act: a."Boarding house" means any building, together with any related structure, accessory building, any land appurtenant thereto, and any part...
• Section 55:13b-4 - Powers Of Commissioner
  The commissioner, to effectuate the provisions and purposes of this act, shall have the power to: a. Promulgate and amend rules and regulations in...
• Section 55:13b-5 - Regulations; Distinctions Among Types; Waiver, Modification Or Postponement Of Application
  a. In promulgating any regulations pursuant to the provisions of this act , the commissioner may make distinctions among types of rooming and boarding...
• Section 55:13b-5.1 - Responsibilities Assumed By Doh; Inter-agency Agreement.
  15. a. The Department of Community Affairs shall cease its responsibilities for licensure, inspections, and the establishment and enforcement of standards with respect to...
• Section 55:13b-5.2 - Dca To Stop Issuing Licenses.
  16.The Department of Community Affairs shall not issue a license to any person to own or operate a new rooming or boarding house that...
• Section 55:13b-6 - Standards.
  6.The commissioner shall establish standards to ensure that every rooming and boarding house in this State is constructed and operated in such a manner...
• Section 55:13b-6.1 - Carbon Monoxide Sensor Device Required In Rooming, Boarding Houses
  3.Every unit of dwelling space in a rooming or boarding house shall be equipped with one or more carbon monoxide sensor devices that bear...
• Section 55:13b-7 - Rooming, Boarding House Licensure; Fee.
  7. a. (1) No person shall own or operate a rooming or boarding house, hold out a building as available for rooming or boarding...
• Section 55:13b-8 - Operator; Residing In Facility; Acceptance Of Service; Primary Owner Deemed Operator If Operator Unavailable
  Each operator of a rooming or boarding house shall reside in the facility and shall be responsible for accepting service of any notices or...
• Section 55:13b-9 - Inspection, Review Of Records; Violations.
  9.The commissioner shall ensure that each rooming or boarding house whose owner possesses a valid license is inspected and its records reviewed at least...
• Section 55:13b-10 - Corporate, Personal Liability For Violations
  a. No person shall: (1) obstruct, hinder, delay or otherwise interfere with any action of the commissioner in the exercise of any power or...
• Section 55:13b-10.1 - Owner, Operator Of Rooming, Boarding House Prohibited From Providing Health Care Services
  4. No person who owns or operates a rooming or boarding house shall provide health care services in that facility. Nothing in this section...
• Section 55:13b-11 - Violations Constituting Imminent Hazard To Health, Safety Or Welfare; Order Of Vacation Or Correction Of Violation; Reinspection After Notice Of Correction; Reconsideration Hearing; Injunction; Failure To Correct; Order For Submission Of Reports Or Receivership
  a. If, upon inspection of any rooming or boarding house, the commissioner shall discover any violation of the provisions of this act, or any...
• Section 55:13b-11.1 - Criminal Offenses
  The penalties contained in this section are in addition to any other penalties which may be imposed for a violation of P.L. 1979, c....
• Section 55:13b-11.2 - Each Violation Separate
  Where a notice, order or report served or issued pursuant to the provisions of P.L. 1979, c. 496 (C. 55:13B-1 et seq.) specifies several...
• Section 55:13b-12 - Service Of Notices Or Orders
  Notices or orders issued pursuant to this act shall be served upon the owner or operator by posting them by certified mail, return receipt...
• Section 55:13b-13 - Continuance Of Powers And Duties Of Commissioner Under Hotel And Multiple Dwelling Law
  Nothing in this act shall be construed to abrogate or impair the powers and duties of the commissioner under the "Hotel and Multiple Dwelling...
• Section 55:13b-14 - Prohibition Of Notice To Leave Or Other Action In Retaliation; Enforcement Of Rights Or Complaint By Resident
  No owner, operator or employee shall serve notice upon a resident to leave the premises, or take any other action in retaliation for: (a)...
• Section 55:13b-15 - Local Governments Or Officers; Authorization To Inspect; Reports; Preemption Of Regulations; Supplying Information
  a. Any county or municipality in this State may be authorized by the commissioner to perform such inspection within its corporate limits as may...
• Section 55:13b-16 - Severability
  If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence or other part of this act is adjudged unconstitutional or invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or...
• Section 55:13b-17 - Legislative Findings And Declarations
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the well-being of residents of rooming houses, boarding houses and residential health care facilities in the State...
• Section 55:13b-18 - Boarding Facility Defined
  For the purposes of this act, "boarding facility" means rooming house, boarding house or residential health care facility. L.1979, c. 500, s. 2.
• Section 55:13b-19 - Rights Of Resident Of Boarding Facility
  Every resident of a boarding facility shall have the right: a. To manage his own financial affairs; b. To wear his own clothing; c....
• Section 55:13b-20 - Notice Of Rights; Giving To Residents; Posting; Contents
  The operator of a boarding facility shall ensure that a written notice of the rights set forth in this act be given to every...
• Section 55:13b-21 - Violation Of Rights; Action For Damages; Costs And Attorney's Fees
  Any person or resident whose rights as defined herein are violated shall have a cause of action against any person committing such violation. The...
• Section 55:13c-1 - Findings, Determinations
  The Legislature finds and determines: a. Recent high levels of unemployment and low levels of housing production, particularly of housing affordable to low income...
• Section 55:13c-2 - Definitions.
  1.Section 2 of P.L.1985, c.48 (C.55:13C-2) is amended to read as follows: As used in this act: "Emergency condition" means and includes, but is...
• Section 55:13c-2.1 - Refusal Of Admittance To Homeless Shelter To Certain Mentally Ill People Prohibited; Exceptions.
  1.No person shall be refused admittance to an emergency shelter for the homeless based on a perception or belief that the person has a...
• Section 55:13c-2.2 - Grounds For Refusal Of Services.
  2. a. Except as provided in subsection b. of this section, an emergency shelter for the homeless shall not refuse to provide shelter, or...
• Section 55:13c-2.3 - Rules, Regulations.
  3.The Commissioner of Community Affairs, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B- 1 et seq.), may adopt rules and regulations necessary to...
• Section 55:13c-3 - State Regulation.
  3.Notwithstanding any provision of any other statute or any municipal ordinance other than a zoning ordinance, or regulation to the contrary, the licensing, regulation...
• Section 55:13c-4 - Assistance To Operators
  Until the promulgation of permanent rules pursuant to section 5 of this act, the Department of Community Affairs shall encourage operators and prospective operators...
• Section 55:13c-5 - Standards
  Within one year of the effective date of this act, the Commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs shall, after consultation with the Commissioners...
• Section 55:13c-6 - Subject To Regulation As Hotel
  Any emergency shelter for the homeless which has had its license, permit or approval revoked, or has its application for licensing denied, or has...
• Section 55:14a-7.5 - Not To Be Subject To Any Discrimination.
  1.For all of the purposes of the act to which this act is a supplement, no person shall because of race, religious principles, color,...
• Section 55:14a-39.1 - Not To Be Subject To Any Discrimination.
  1.For all of the purposes of the act to which this act is a supplement, no person shall because of race, religious principles, color,...
• Section 55:14a-59 - Housing Authority To Provide Written Notice Of Housing Development Project
  a. The executive director or other chief executive officer of a local or regional housing authority shall provide written notice to a county or...
• Section 55:14c-7.1 - Discrimination
  For all of the purposes of the act to which this act is a supplement, no person shall because of race, religious principles, color,...
• Section 55:14d-15.1 - Redevelopment Company To Provide Written Notice Of Housing Development Project
  a. The executive director or other chief executive officer of a redevelopment company created pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1944, c.169 (C.55:14D-4) shall provide...
• Section 55:14e-5.1 - Corporation To Provide Written Notice Of Development Project
  a. The executive director or other chief executive officer of a corporation or entity which makes application to develop a project pursuant to the...
• Section 55:14f-10 - Housing Accommodations Outside Municipal Limits In Conjunction With Other Municipalities
  Any municipality which desires to provide temporary or permanent housing for its veterans or other citizens in accordance with the provisions of the act...
• Section 55:14g-17.1 - Bonds Of Municipality For Emergency Housing Authorized
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section seventeen or any other section of the act to which this act is a supplement, or of article one...
• Section 55:14g-17.2 - "Emergency Housing Bonds" ; Ordinance; Provisions; Interest; Computation Of Net Debt
  Bonds authorized or issued pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be known as "Emergency Housing Bonds," and shall bear interest at a...
• Section 55:14g-27 - Report By Administrator To Commissioner Of Taxation And Finance
  It shall be the duty of the administrator of the Public Housing and Development Authority, constituted by the act to which this act is...
• Section 55:14g-28 - Repeal
  Sections nineteen and twenty of chapter three hundred twenty-three of the laws of one thousand nine hundred and forty-six are repealed. L.1949, c. 186,...
• Section 55:14g-29 - "State Housing Fund Of 1949"
  All net revenues or proceeds of sale to be derived, obtained or received from the operations or sale of any emergency housing or emergency...
• Section 55:14g-29.1 - Disposition Of Proceeds Of Sale Of Emergency Housing Or Emergency Housing Projects
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary: all net State revenues, proceeds of sale or other receipts hereafter to be derived,...
• Section 55:14g-30 - Offenses
  Any person who attempts to or obtains financial aid for a project hereunder or occupancy of a dwelling unit therein by false or misleading...
• Section 55:14g-31 - Extension Of Temporary Emergency Housing Contracts Upon Finding Of Need By Municipal Governing Body; New Contracts
  If, under the authority of the act hereby supplemented, the governing body of any municipality, by resolution, shall find that a need for temporary...
• Section 55:14g-32 - Effective Date; Duration Of Act
  This act shall take effect immediately and shall continue in full force and effect so long as any of the provisions of the act...
• Section 55:14g-33 - Emergency Housing; Extension Of Contract
  Whenever, under the authority of the act hereby supplemented, the governing body of any municipality, by resolution, shall find that a need for emergency...
• Section 55:14g-34 - Effective Date; Duration Of Act
  This act shall take effect immediately and shall continue in full force and effect so long as any of the provisions of the act...
• Section 55:14g-35 - Emergency Housing; Extension
  Whenever, under the authority of the act hereby supplemented, the governing body of any municipality, by resolution, shall find that a need for emergency...
• Section 55:14g-36 - Effective Date; Duration
  This act shall take effect immediately and shall continue in full force and effect until June 1, 1956. L.1955, c. 50, p. 167, s.
• Section 55:14h-5 - Powers And Duties Of Council
  The Council shall have power to make, amend, modify and repeal, such reasonable rules and regulations as it may deem necessary: (a) to adequately...
• Section 55:14h-6 - Division Of State Into Areas; Allocation Of Aid From Funds Available
  The Council shall, for the purposes of this act, divide the State into areas on the basis of which allocation of funds, by way...
• Section 55:14i-6.1 - Disclosure Statements To Senior Citizen Housing Residents
  1. Every nonprofit corporation owning or operating a senior citizen rental housing project pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1965, c.92 (C.55:14I-1 et seq.) shall...
• Section 55:14j-2.1 - Legislative Findings And Declarations
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that blighted areas exist throughout the State; that one effective method of alleviating blight is to increase the...
• Section 55:14j-41 - Definitions
  Except as the context may otherwise require: a. "Department" means the Department of Community Affairs. b. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of...
• Section 55:14j-42 - Mortgage Assistance Account
  There is hereby created and established in the department a "Mortgage Assistance Account" which shall consist of: a. All moneys derived from the sale...
• Section 55:14j-43 - Payment To Housing Finance Agency For Reserve Fund
  The Commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs is authorized to pay from the mortgage assistance account to the New Jersey Housing Finance Agency...
• Section 55:14j-44 - Return Of Funds Free Of Pledge Or Lien; Retention Of Earnings
  To the extent that moneys paid to the New Jersey Housing Finance Agency pursuant to section 3 of this act have been paid into...
• Section 55:14j-46 - Financial Assistance For Senior Citizens And Low Or Moderate Income Families And For Qualified Housing Developments
  The commissioner is authorized to utilize $3,000,000.00 from the Mortgage Assistance Account for the purpose of granting financial assistance, including interest subsidy assistance, for...
• Section 55:14j-47 - Rules And Regulations; Review Of Findings And Recommendations Of Commission By Commissioner
  The commissioner shall issue and promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary and appropriate to carry out the provisions of this act. The...
• Section 55:14j-48 - Appropriations From Proceeds Of Sale Of Bonds For Expenses
  There is also appropriated from the proceeds of the sale of the bonds hereinbefore mentioned such sums as may be necessary to meet any...
• Section 55:14j-49 - Maintenance Of Appropriations In Mortgage Assistance Fund
  The State Treasurer is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed and it shall be his duty to set up and maintain the aforementioned appropriations in...
• Section 55:14j-50 - Federal Grants; Establishment And Maintenance Of Mortgage Assistance Fund
  The commissioner is hereby empowered to enter into negotiations with the Federal Government for the purpose of securing any available financial grants and to...
• Section 55:14j-51 - Report To And Consultation With Legislative Committee Prior To Entry Into Agreement
  Not less than 30 days prior to the commissioner entering into any contract, lease, obligation, or agreement to effectuate the purposes of this act...
• Section 55:14k-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known as and may be cited as the "New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency Law of 1983." L.1983, c....
• Section 55:14k-2 - Legislative Findings And Declarations
  The Legislature hereby finds that: a. Changing economic conditions and financial markets have reduced the availability in the private sector of feasible construction and...
• Section 55:14k-3 - Definitions.
  3.As used in this act: a."Agency" means the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency as consolidated by section 4 of P.L.1983, c.530 (C.55:14K-4),...
• Section 55:14k-4 - New Jersey Housing And Mortgage Finance Agency.
  4. a. The New Jersey Housing Finance Agency, created by section 4 of P.L.1967, c.81 (C.55:14J-4) and the New Jersey Mortgage Finance Agency created...
• Section 55:14k-5 - Powers Of Agency
  In order to carry out the purposes and provisions of this act, the agency, in addition to any powers granted to it elsewhere in...
• Section 55:14k-5.1 - New Jersey Housing And Mortgage Finance Agency To Provide Written Notice Of Funding
  a. The executive director of the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency shall provide written notice to a county or municipality, as appropriate,...
• Section 55:14k-5.2 - Additional Powers Of New Jersey Housing And Mortgage Finance Agency
  1. In addition to the powers otherwise granted in P.L.1983, c.530 (C.55:14K-1 et seq.), the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency shall set...
• Section 55:14k-5.3 - Transfer Of Certain Reserves To State For Housing Needs.
  1.Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency established pursuant to P.L.1983, c.530 (C.55:14K-1 et...
• Section 55:14k-6 - Financing Of Construction, Improvement Or Rehabilitation Of Housing Projects; Loans; Application; Priorities
  a. The agency, in order to encourage the development, operation, maintenance, construction, improvement and rehabilitation of safe and adequate housing in the State, is...
• Section 55:14k-7 - Terms And Conditions Of Loans
  a. Loans made by the agency to finance housing projects shall be subject to the following terms and conditions: (1) The loan shall be...
• Section 55:14k-7.1 - Shower, Bathtub Safety Rails Required In Certain Senior Rental Projects.
  1.Notwithstanding any law or regulation to the contrary, whenever a rental dwelling unit reserved for occupancy by an adult aged 55 or over is...
• Section 55:14k-7.2 - Powers Of Agency As Condition Of Loan, Grant, Investment For Special Needs Housing Projects.
  2.As a condition of any loan, grant or other investment by the agency pursuant to P.L.2005, c.163 (C.34:1B-21.25a et al.), the agency shall have...
• Section 55:14k-7.3 - Tenants Forum; State-subsidized Rental Housing, Complaints.
  1. a. The agency shall require every manager of rental housing which has been financed, in whole or in part, by the agency or...
• Section 55:14k-8 - Eligibility For Admission To Housing Projects; Termination Of Tenancy Or Interest; Excessive Income; Surcharge; Disposition.
  8. a. Admission to housing projects constructed, improved or rehabilitated under this act shall be limited to families whose gross aggregate family income at...
• Section 55:14k-9 - Housing Sponsors; Action Or Proceeding By Agency To Enforce Rights; Appointment Of Receiver; Reorganizations
  a. The agency may institute any action or proceeding against any housing sponsor receiving a loan under the provisions hereof, or owning any housing...
• Section 55:14k-10 - Foreclosure Action; Parties Defendant; Entry Of Judgment; Conditions; Orders; Qualification Of Buyers; Other Judgments; Notices Prior To Sale
  a. In any foreclosure action involving a housing sponsor other than a foreclosure action instituted by the agency, the agency and the municipality in...
• Section 55:14k-11 - Loans To Institutional Lenders
  a. The agency may make loans to institutional lenders in order to furnish funds to institutional lenders to make eligible loans; but an eligible...
• Section 55:14k-12 - Purchase And Sale Of Eligible Loans By Agency
  a. The agency in order to encourage the development, operation, construction, improvement, and rehabilitation of an adequate supply of affordable housing, shall have the...
• Section 55:14k-13 - Life Safety Improvement Loans.
  13. a. In order to encourage the construction, acquisition and rendering of life safety improvements at or to boarding houses, the agency is hereby...
• Section 55:14k-14 - Boarding House Rental Assistance Fund
  There is hereby established in the Department of Community Affairs a fund to be known as the "Boarding House Rental Assistance Fund." The fund...
• Section 55:14k-15 - Rental Assistance Agreements
  In furtherance of the purposes of sections 13 through 17 of this act, the Commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs is authorized to...
• Section 55:14k-16 - Boarding House Rental Assistance Fund Annual Report
  On or before December 1 of each year, the Commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs shall submit to the Governor and the State...
• Section 55:14k-17 - Annual Appropriations To Boarding House Rental Assistance Fund
  a. To assure that there exists sufficient money in the Boarding House Rental Assistance Fund so as to permit the fund to be fully...
• Section 55:14k-18 - Subsidiary Corporations Of Agency
  a. In order to carry out the purposes and provisions of this act, the agency, in addition to any powers granted to it elsewhere...
• Section 55:14k-19 - New Jersey Housing Development Corporation
  a. In order to carry out the purposes and provisions of this act, there is hereby chartered in, but not of, the agency the...
• Section 55:14k-20 - Bonds Of Agency
  a. The agency shall have the power and is hereby authorized from time to time to issue its bonds in such principal amounts as...
• Section 55:14k-21 - Resolutions Of Authorization For Issuance Of Bonds; Contents
  Any resolution or resolutions of the agency authorizing the issuance of bonds may contain provisions, except as expressly limited in this act and except...
• Section 55:14k-22 - Default In Payment Of Principal Or Interest On Bonds
  a. If the agency defaults in the payment of principal of or interest on any issue of bonds after the same becomes due, whether...
• Section 55:14k-23 - Pledges Of Income, Revenues Or Other Property
  Any pledge made by the agency of income, revenues or other property shall be valid and binding from the time the pledge is made....
• Section 55:14k-24 - Allocation Of State Ceiling On Aggregate Amount Of Qualified Mortgage Bonds Under I. R. C. S. 103a(g) To Agency
  For purposes of subsection (g) of section 103A of the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, the State ceiling on the aggregate...
• Section 55:14k-25 - Reservation Of Funds For Use In Municipalities Eligible For State Aid For Services And To Offset Property Taxes
  At least 25% of the funds made available by the agency for the acquisition, operation, construction, rehabilitation, conversion, improvement or ownership of residential properties...
• Section 55:14k-26 - Inclusion Of Interest On Bonds In Gross Income For Purposes Of Federal Income Tax
  The agency may consent, at or prior to the time of issuance of any issue of its bonds, to the inclusion of interest on...
• Section 55:14k-27 - No Personal Liability On Bonds
  Neither the members of the agency nor any person executing bonds issued pursuant to this act shall be liable personally on such bonds by...
• Section 55:14k-28 - Purchase Of Bonds Of Agency By Agency
  The agency shall have power to purchase bonds of the agency out of any funds available therefor. The agency may hold, cancel or resell...
• Section 55:14k-29 - Housing Finance Funds
  a. The agency may create and establish one or more special funds to be known as housing finance funds and may pay into such...
• Section 55:14k-30 - Housing Development Fund
  a. The agency shall establish and maintain a Housing Development Fund which shall consist of all moneys appropriated by the State for inclusion therein,...
• Section 55:14k-31 - General Fund Of Agency
  a. The agency shall establish and maintain a fund called the "General Fund" which shall consist of all moneys of the agency not required...
• Section 55:14k-32 - Pledge, Covenant And Agreement Of State With Bondholders
  The State of New Jersey does hereby pledge to and covenant and agree with the holders of any bonds issued pursuant to the authority...
• Section 55:14k-33 - Bonds As Legal Investment
  Notwithstanding any restriction contained in any other law, all banks, trust companies, savings banks and institutions, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations,...
• Section 55:14k-34 - Tax Exemptions
  a. All property of the agency is hereby declared to be public property devoted to an essential public and governmental function and purpose and...
• Section 55:14k-35 - Exemption Of Property From Levy And Sale By Execution, Judicial Process Or Charge Or Lien Of Judgment
  All property of the agency, except as otherwise provided herein, shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution and no...
• Section 55:14k-36 - Insurance Or Guarantee Of Payment Of Interest Or Principal Of Loans Or Bonds; Obtaining From Federal Department Or Agency Or Other Person
  a. The agency may obtain, or aid in obtaining, from any department or agency of the United States or any other person any insurance...
• Section 55:14k-37 - Other Laws, Rules Or Regulations Concerning Housing Sponsors Subordinate To This Act; Tax Exemption Of Project; Ordinance Or Resolution; Taxes Or Payments In Lieu Of Taxes
  a. It is the intent of the Legislature that in the event of any conflict or inconsistency in the provisions of this act and...
• Section 55:14k-38 - Violations; Penalty
  Any person who attempts to or obtains an eligible loan hereunder or occupancy or continued occupancy of a dwelling unit financed by an eligible...
• Section 55:14k-39 - Conflicts Of Interest; Violations; Penalties
  a. No member, officer or employee of the agency shall have or attempt to have, for purposes of personal gain, directly or indirectly, any...
• Section 55:14k-40 - Annual Report And Audit Of Agency
  On or before the last day of March in each year, the agency shall make an annual report of its activities for the preceding...
• Section 55:14k-41 - Agency Financial Strategy; Biannual Revision; Annual Review Of Housing Program Content
  a. The agency shall develop and revise every two years an agency financial strategy. This strategy shall be submitted to the presiding officer of...
• Section 55:14k-42 - Wage Rate Of Workmen Employed By Qualified Housing Sponsors; Determination
  Each qualified housing sponsor granted a loan from the agency, or any builder, contractor or subcontractor engaged by the qualified housing sponsor for the...
• Section 55:14k-43 - Services To Agency By State Units Or Officers; Payment Of Costs And Expenses
  All officers, departments, boards, agencies, divisions and commissions of the State are hereby authorized and empowered to render any services to the agency as...
• Section 55:14k-44 - Discrimination; Prohibition; Violations; Penalty
  No person shall be discriminated against because of race, religious principles, color, national origin or ancestry by the agency, any housing sponsor, any institutional...
• Section 55:14k-45 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Housing Incentive Finance Act." L.1992,c.114,s.1.
• Section 55:14k-46 - Findings, Determinations, Declarations
  2. The Legislature finds, determines and declares: a. Changing economic conditions and the current state of financial markets have curtailed the amount of capital...
• Section 55:14k-47 - Definitions
  3. As used in this act: "Agency" means the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency. "Bonds" means bonds, notes or any other form...
• Section 55:14k-48 - Issuance Of Housing Incentive Bonds
  4. a. In addition to the bonding authority conferred by section 20 of P.L.1983, c.530 (C.55:14K-20), the agency is hereby authorized to issue bonds...
• Section 55:14k-49 - Housing Incentive Finance Fund Established
  5. a. There is hereby established in the agency the Housing Incentive Finance Fund, which shall be continuing and nonlapsing, for the purpose of...
• Section 55:14k-50 - Guarantee Of Construction Loans
  6. a. The agency is hereby authorized to guarantee with moneys in the fund construction loans made to qualified housing developers of qualified housing...
• Section 55:14k-51 - Loan Guarantees
  7. a. The agency is hereby authorized to contract with institutional lenders to guarantee on behalf of a housing developer the repayment of the...
• Section 55:14k-52 - Insurance Against Defaults
  8. In order to secure purchasers of the bonds issued pursuant to section 4 of this act against any default arising out of insufficiency...
• Section 55:14k-53 - Rules, Regulations
  9. The agency is hereby authorized to promulgate, in accordance with the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), all...
• Section 55:14k-54 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Affordable Home Ownership Opportunities Act of 1995." L.1995,c.343,s.1.
• Section 55:14k-55 - Findings, Etc. Relative To Housing For Low And Moderate Income Families
  2. The Legislature finds, determines and declares: a. Housing problems in this State have been, and continue to be, acute, especially in that adequate...
• Section 55:14k-56 - Definitions
  3. As used in this act: "Affordable Home Ownership Opportunities Bonds" means any bonds of the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency that...
• Section 55:14k-57 - Amount Set Aside To Provide Mortgage Loans
  4. a. In furtherance of the public policy of this act, the agency shall set aside, from the bonds of the agency, an amount...
• Section 55:14k-58 - Affordable Home Ownership Opportunities Fund Established
  5. a. There is hereby established in the agency the Affordable Home Ownership Opportunities Program and the Affordable Home Ownership Opportunities Fund, which fund...
• Section 55:14k-59 - Loans By Agency Authorized
  6. a. The agency is hereby authorized to make loans under the program to qualified purchasers of dwelling units from nonprofit organizations undertaking eligible...
• Section 55:14k-60 - Eligibility For Loans
  7. A project of new construction or substantial rehabilitation by a nonprofit organization shall be eligible for a loan under this act if (1)...
• Section 55:14k-61 - Selection Of Eligible Projects
  8. In selecting eligible projects to receive loans from the fund, the agency shall accord priority to programs in which: a. Private donors or...
• Section 55:14k-62 - Eligible Project Declared Public Work
  9.Any eligible project that conforms to the standards and requirements of this act and the regulations promulgated pursuant thereto is hereby declared to be...
• Section 55:14k-63 - Rules, Regulations
  10. The agency is authorized to promulgate the rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the provisions and purposes of this act in accordance with...
• Section 55:14k-64 - Short Title
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Rental Housing Incentive Guarantee Program." L.1995,c.359,s.1.
• Section 55:14k-65 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Rental Housing Incentive Guarantee Program
  2. The Legislature hereby finds and declares: a. The present depressed condition of the housing industry in this State is both an obstacle to...
• Section 55:14k-66 - Definitions
  3.As used in this act: "Agency" means the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency. "Construction costs" means all expenditures made or incurred by...
• Section 55:14k-67 - Rental Housing Incentive Guarantee Fund Established
  4. a. There is hereby established in the agency the Rental Housing Incentive Guarantee Fund, which shall be non-revolving, for the purpose of funding...
• Section 55:14k-68 - Powers, Duties Of Agency
  5. a. The agency is hereby authorized to contract with institutional lenders to guarantee on behalf of a qualified housing developer the repayment of...
• Section 55:14k-69 - Agreements Between Agency And Authority
  6.For the purpose of carrying out the housing component of mixed use projects of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority consisting of both housing...
• Section 55:14k-70 - Funding Provided By New Jersey Economic Development Authority
  7.The New Jersey Economic Development Authority shall provide funding for any agreements entered into pursuant to section 6 of P.L.1995, c.359 (C.55:14K-69) on the...
• Section 55:14k-71 - Rules, Regulations
  10.The agency is hereby authorized to promulgate, in accordance with the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), all rules...
• Section 55:14k-72 - Short Title
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Senior and Disabled Cooperative Housing Finance Incentive Act." L.1998,c.128,s.1.
• Section 55:14k-73 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Cooperative Housing For Certain Purchasers
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.New Jersey has the second largest population of senior residents in the country and many persons with disability...
• Section 55:14k-74 - Definitions Relative To Cooperative Housing For Certain Purchasers
  3.As used in this act: "Agency" means the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency. "Annual income" means total income, from all sources, during...
• Section 55:14k-75 - "New Jersey Senior And Disabled Cooperative Housing Finance Incentive Program"
  4. a. There is hereby established in the agency the "New Jersey Senior and Disabled Cooperative Housing Finance Incentive Program" for the purpose of...
• Section 55:14k-76 - Amount From Bonds Set Aside For Certain Mortgage Loans, Projects
  5. a. In furtherance of the public policy of P.L.1998, c.128 (C.55:14K-72 et seq.), the agency shall set aside, from the bonds of the...
• Section 55:14k-77 - "Senior And Disabled Cooperative Housing Incentive Fund"
  6. a. There is hereby established in the agency the "Senior and Disabled Cooperative Housing Incentive Fund," which fund shall be continuing and nonlapsing,...
• Section 55:14k-78 - Eligibility For Loan
  7.A project of new construction, substantial rehabilitation, or retrofitting by a qualified housing sponsor shall be eligible for a loan under P.L.1998, c.128 (C.55:14K-72...
• Section 55:14k-79 - Selection Of Projects; Priority
  8.In selecting those eligible projects which shall receive loans from the fund, the agency shall accord priority to those projects for which: a.Private donors...
• Section 55:14k-80 - Project Declared Public Work
  9.Any eligible project that conforms to the standards and requirements of P.L.1998, c.128 (C.55:14K-72 et seq.) and the regulations promulgated pursuant thereto is hereby...
• Section 55:14k-81 - Rules, Regulations
  10.`The agency is authorized to promulgate the rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the provisions and purposes of P.L.1998, c.128 (C.55:14K-72 et seq.) in...
• Section 55:14k-82 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Mortgage Stabilization and Relief Act." L.2008, c.127, s.1.
• Section 55:14k-83 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Residential Mortgage Assistance.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.Many thousands of New Jersey homeowners are at risk of losing their homes as a result of mortgage...
• Section 55:14k-84 - Short Title.
  3.Sections 3 through 7 of P.L.2008, c.127 (C.55:14K-84 et seq.) and sections 4 and 5 of P.L.2009, c.334 (C.55:14K-86.1 and C.55:14K-86.2) shall be known...
• Section 55:14k-85 - Definitions Relative To "Mortgage And Neighborhood Stabilization Financing Assistance Program."
  4.As used in sections 4 through 7 of P.L.2008, c.127 (C.55:14K-84 et seq.) and sections 4 and 5 of P.L.2009, c.334 (C.55:14K-86.1 and C.55:14K-86.2):...
• Section 55:14k-86 - Mortgage And Neighborhood Stabilization Assistance Program, Fund.
  5.There is established in the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency a Mortgage and Neighborhood Stabilization Financing Assistance Program and Mortgage and Neighborhood...
• Section 55:14k-86.1 - Certain Funds Used For Acquisition, Rehabilitation Of Certain Properties.
  4.The agency shall set aside all $10,800,000 of the funds appropriated to the Mortgage and Neighborhood Stabilization Financing Assistance Program Fund to be used...
• Section 55:14k-86.2 - Regulations.
  5.Notwithstanding any provision of P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) to the contrary, the agency may adopt immediately upon filing with the Office of Administrative...
• Section 55:14k-86.3 - Additional Uses For Funds.
  7.In addition to the uses specified for the Mortgage and Neighborhood Stabilization Financing Program Fund created by section 5 of P.L.2008, c.127 (C.55:14K-86) the...
• Section 55:14k-87 - Rules, Regulations.
  6.The agency is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations, pursuant to the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), to...
• Section 55:14k-88 - Short Title.
  8.Sections 8 through 14 of P.L.2008, c.127 (C.55:14K-88 et seq.) shall be known and may be referred to as the "New Jersey Housing Assistance...
• Section 55:14k-89 - Definitions Relative To "New Jersey Housing Assistance And Recovery Program."
  9.As used in sections 9 through 14 of P.L.2008, c.127 (C.55:14K-89 et seq.): "Affordable rent" means monthly rent or lease payments that do not...
• Section 55:14k-90 - Housing Assistance And Recovery Program Support Fund.
  10. a. There is established in the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency a Housing Assistance and Recovery Program (HARP) Support Fund, for...
• Section 55:14k-91 - Execution Of Lease-purchase Agreement.
  11.A sponsor who receives monies from the fund and the homeowner shall execute a lease-purchase agreement, not to exceed a term of 36 months,...
• Section 55:14k-92 - Notification Relative To Noncompliance Of Sponsor.
  12.The Department of Community Affairs shall notify the agency in the event a sponsor fails to maintain compliance with the department's certification process. L.2008,...
• Section 55:14k-93 - Rules, Regulations.
  13.The commissioner and the agency are authorized to promulgate rules and regulations, pursuant to the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1...
• Section 55:14l-1 - Findings, Declarations
  1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Many adults living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or who have been diagnosed with acquired immune...
• Section 55:14l-2 - Definitions
  2. As used in this act, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: "Agency" means the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance...
• Section 55:14l-3 - "Scattered Site Aids Permanent Housing Program" Established
  3. There is established within the agency the "Scattered Site AIDS Permanent Housing Program," a program to provide supportive housing to participants and their...
• Section 55:14l-4 - "Supportive Housing Fund" Established
  4. There is established within the agency a "Supportive Housing Fund," which shall be a nonlapsing, revolving fund and which shall be the repository...
• Section 55:14l-5 - Steering Committee Established
  5. There is established within the agency a statewide steering committee for the Scattered Site AIDS Permanent Housing Program. The committee shall be comprised...
• Section 55:17-1 - Continuation Of Lease Or Financial Arrangement On Default Or Foreclosure Of Mortgage Loan
  Any lease or financial arrangement made by any governmental body or agency of this State pursuant to statute in connection with a project for...
• Section 55:17-2 - Records By Holder Of Mortgage Loan
  In the event of any default or foreclosure in respect to a project coming within this act, the holder of the mortgage loan shall...
• Section 55:17-3 - Project And Financial Records Equivalent To Person Or Entity Entering Into Lease Or Financial Arrangement For Continuation Purposes; Administration Of Project Arrangements; Summary Proceedings
  The project and the financial records herein provided for shall be considered to be equivalent to the person or entity entering into the lease...
• Section 55:17-4 - Establishment And Maintenance Of Financial Records And Data
  The financial records and data in respect to the administration of the project after default or foreclosure shall be so established and maintained as...
• Section 55:17-5 - Nature, Identity Or Status Of Person With Whom Lease Or Financial Agreement May Be Made
  Limiting and restrictive provisions of any statute otherwise applicable, in respect to the nature, identity or status of any person with whom a lease...
• Section 55:17-6 - Modifying Or Supplementing Mortgage Loan; Written Consent Of Holder
  So long as any mortgage loan remains unsatisfied in respect to any project, no agreement shall be made between the governmental body or agency...
• Section 55:17-7 - Notice Of Default To Holder
  In the event of any default in connection with the terms and provisions of any lease or financial arrangement affecting a project, the governmental...
• Section 55:17-8 - Remedies To Holder Of Mortgage Loan
  In order to provide additional and supplemental remedies to the holder of a mortgage loan on a project, which remedies are deemed necessary and...
• Section 55:17-9 - Definitions
  For the purposes of this act, the following terms shall have the designated meanings: (a) "Lease or financial agreement" means any contractual arrangement between...
• Section 55:17-10 - Liberal Construction
  The provisions of this act shall be liberally construed in order that holders of mortgage loans on projects may rely, in the event of...
• Section 55:17-11 - Application
  The provisions shall apply to all mortgages executed and delivered on and after the effective date of this act, and, to the extent that...
• Section 55:18-1 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Dwelling unit" means a room or connected rooms within a residential structure forming a self-contained area within that...
• Section 55:18-2 - Title In Municipality To Realty With Residential Or Nonresidential Structure; Determinations Of Feasibility Of Conversion Or Rehabilitation; Authorization To Lease And Subordinate Interest To Mortgage
  When a municipality holds title to any lot, parcel, or tract of real property that includes a residential or nonresidential structure, if the municipal...
• Section 55:18-3 - Qualifications Of Prospective Lessee
  Before any lease is entered into under authority of this act the prospective lessee shall demonstrate to the satisfaction of the municipal governing body:...
• Section 55:18-4 - Terms Of Lease
  A lease entered into under authority of this act shall specify: a. The term of the lease and the conditions, if any, under which...
• Section 55:18-5 - Conformance To Codes
  Every structure rehabilitated or converted by a lessee under authority of this act, and every dwelling unit in such structure, shall conform to all...
• Section 55:18-6 - Schedule Of Rents
  a. A schedule of rents under subsection e. of section 4 of this act shall provide for total revenue sufficient to meet the necessary...
• Section 55:18-7 - Surcharge On Rents For Lessee With Option To Purchase; Deposit; Disposition
  a. If at the time of execution of the lease the municipality offers the lessee an option to purchase the property during, or at...
• Section 55:18-8 - Expiration Of Lease; Disposition Of Property
  Upon expiration of a lease entered into under authority of this act: a. If the lessee exercises an option to purchase, the municipality shall...
• Section 55:18-9 - Waiver Of Requirements By Municipality; Conditions
  In order to avoid redundant or conflicting regulation, the municipal governing body may waive any requirement pursuant to the provisions of this act upon...
• Section 55:18-10 - Rules And Regulations
  The Commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs shall have the power to adopt, amend, revise and repeal rules and regulations to promote implementation...
• Section 55:19-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Urban Development Corporation Act." L. 1985, c. 227, s. 1, eff....
• Section 55:19-2 - Findings, Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares: a. For several years past economic decline has persisted in the urban centers of the State, despite programs created...
• Section 55:19-3 - Definitions
  3. As used in this act, except as otherwise clearly required by the context: a. "Board" or "board of directors" means the directors of...
• Section 55:19-4 - Urban Development Corporation
  a. There is established the New Jersey Urban Development Corporation. For the purpose of complying with the provisions of Article V, Section IV, paragraph...
• Section 55:19-5 - Coordination With Other State Programs; Advisory Council
  a. In planning for the development and execution of projects authorized by this act, or for the exercise of any of the other powers...
• Section 55:19-6 - Powers Of The Corporation
  6. Except as otherwise limited in this act, the corporation shall have power: a. to sue and be sued; b. to have a seal...
• Section 55:19-7 - Subsidiary Corporations
  a. The corporation shall have the right to exercise and perform its powers and functions through one or more subsidiaries. The corporation by resolution...
• Section 55:19-8 - Joint Ventures
  The corporation, or any subsidiary, may enter into agreements with any individual, partnership, trust, association or corporation, or any public agency, under which the...
• Section 55:19-9 - Loans For "Projects."
  The corporation, or any subsidiary, may make loans to any individual, partnership, trust, association or corporation for the purpose of enabling such entity to...
• Section 55:19-10 - Subsidiary Stock Issuance
  Any subsidiary, upon authorization by the corporation, may issue its stock and employ the proceeds of such sales for capital investment in, or other...
• Section 55:19-11 - Self-dealing Prohibition
  a. No director, officer, agent or employee of the corporation or of any of the corporation's subsidiaries shall take any official action on any...
• Section 55:19-12 - Authorized Investment
  Any public or private agency, organization, corporation, or association which is not legally barred from investing in the bonds or stock of the New...
• Section 55:19-13 - Employment Tax Credit
  Any person, firm or corporation actively engaged in the conduct of business at a location within a project, as defined in this act, which...
• Section 55:19-14 - No Eminent Domain; Municipal Regulation
  a. Neither the corporation nor any of its subsidiaries is authorized to acquire property by right of eminent domain. b. Neither the corporation nor...
• Section 55:19-15 - Prevailing Wage Rate
  Any builder, contractor or subcontractor engaged upon a project within the meaning of this act, and any person, firm or corporation managing or operating...
• Section 55:19-16 - Annual Report; Strategy Document
  a. On or before the last day of March in each year, the board of directors of the corporation shall make an annual report...
• Section 55:19-17 - Urban Development Investment Fund Created
  16. a. There is hereby created the Urban Development Investment Fund, into which shall be paid: (1) Funds appropriated by section 17 of this...
• Section 55:19-18 - Appropriation From Bond Fund
  a. There is appropriated to the Urban Development Investment Fund from the Community Development Bond Fund created by the "Community Development Bond Act of...
• Section 55:19-19 - Project Initiation Within One Year
  The first projects under this act shall be initiated not later than one year from the date on which, following the appointment of its...
• Section 55:19-20 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Urban Redevelopment Act." L.1996,c.62,s.1.
• Section 55:19-21 - Findings, Determinations Relative To Urban Redevelopment
  2. The Legislature finds and determines that: a. As one of the nation's most densely populated States and one of the earliest settled, New...
• Section 55:19-22 - Definitions Relative To Urban Redevelopment.
  3.As used in P.L.1996, c.62 (C.55:19-20 et al.), except as otherwise clearly required by the context: "Authority" means the New Jersey Redevelopment Authority established...
• Section 55:19-23 - New Jersey Urban Development Corporation Reconstituted As New Jersey Redevelopment Authority
  4. a. The New Jersey Urban Development Corporation established pursuant to P.L.1985, c.227 (C.55:19-1 et seq.) is reconstituted as the New Jersey Redevelopment Authority....
• Section 55:19-24 - Powers Of Authority
  5. The authority shall have the following powers: a. to sue and be sued; b. to have a seal and alter the same at...
• Section 55:19-25 - Prioritization Of Projects
  6. The authority, in determining which projects to approve for financing, shall accord first priority to any project situated in a municipality which at...
• Section 55:19-26 - Volunteer Cooperation, Assistance Of Private Business Firms, Executives
  7. In planning and carrying out projects pursuant to P.L.1996, c.62 (C.55:19-20 et al.) the authority and its subsidiaries shall endeavor to enlist the...
• Section 55:19-27 - Additional Powers Of Authority
  8. a. In order to carry out the purposes and provisions of P.L.1996, c.62 (C.55:19-20 et al.), the authority, in addition to any powers...
• Section 55:19-28 - Joint Ventures
  9. The authority, or any subsidiary, may enter into agreements with any individual, partnership, trust, association or corporation, or any public agency, under which...
• Section 55:19-29 - Loans For Projects
  10. The authority, or any subsidiary, may make loans to any individual, partnership, trust, association or corporation for the purpose of enabling such entity...
• Section 55:19-30 - Authority Empowered To Issue Bonds
  11. For the purpose of providing funds to pay all or any part of the cost of any project or projects, to make loans...
• Section 55:19-31 - Issuance Of Bonds
  12. By resolution, the authority shall have power to incur indebtedness, borrow money and issue its bonds for the purposes stated in section 11...
• Section 55:19-32 - Bond, Other Obligation Deemed Fully Negotiable
  13. Any provision of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, any bond or other obligation issued pursuant to P.L.1996, c.62 (C.55:19-20 et al.) shall...
• Section 55:19-33 - Power Of Authority To Covenant, Agree With Bondholders
  14. In order to secure the payment of such bonds and in addition to its other powers, the authority shall have power by resolution...
• Section 55:19-34 - Pledge Of Revenues, Other Moneys Valid, Binding
  15. Any pledge of revenues or other moneys made by the authority shall be valid and binding from the time that the pledge is...
• Section 55:19-35 - Lawful Investments In Authority Securities
  16. Any public or private agency, organization, corporation, or association which is not legally barred from investing in the bonds or stock of the...
• Section 55:19-36 - Liability On Bonds
  17. Neither the members of the authority nor any person executing bonds issued pursuant to P.L.1996, c.62 (C.55:19-20 et al.) shall be liable personally...
• Section 55:19-37 - Conflicts Prohibited; Remedies
  18. a. No member, officer, agent or employee of the authority or of any of its subsidiaries shall take any official action on any...
• Section 55:19-38 - Prevailing Wages
  19. Any builder, contractor or subcontractor engaged upon a project within the meaning of P.L.1996, c.62 (C.55:19-20 et al.), and any person, firm or...
• Section 55:19-39 - Public Hearing On Project
  20. a. Under the jurisdiction and at the discretion of the authority, there may be a public hearing on each project, the cost of...
• Section 55:19-40 - Property, Securities Of Authority, Tax Exempt; In Lieu Of Tax Payments
  21. The exercise of the powers granted by P.L.1996, c.62 (C.55:19-20 et al.) shall constitute the performance of an essential governmental function and the...
• Section 55:19-41 - Agreements Between Contiguous Municipalities To Share Project Revenues
  22. The governing bodies of any two contiguous municipalities within which is located or is to be located a New Jersey Redevelopment Authority project...
• Section 55:19-42 - Responsibility Of Each Municipality Set Forth In Agreement
  23. Any agreement entered into pursuant to section 22 of P.L.1996, c.62 (C.55:19-41) for the sharing of payments and revenues derived from a project...
• Section 55:19-43 - Investments Permitted
  24. Notwithstanding any restriction contained in any other law, the State and all political subdivisions of this State, and all other persons who are...
• Section 55:19-44 - P. L.1996, C.62 Complete Authority For Issuance Of Bonds
  25. The foregoing sections of P.L.1996, c.62 (C.55:19-20 et al.) shall be deemed to provide a complete method for the doing of things authorized...
• Section 55:19-45 - Submission Of New Jersey Redevelopment Strategy Document
  26. With its first annual report, and every second year thereafter, the authority shall submit a New Jersey Redevelopment Strategy document, setting forth the...
• Section 55:19-46 - New Jersey Redevelopment Investment Fund
  27. a. There is hereby created the New Jersey Redevelopment Investment Fund, or "fund," a revolving loan pool to be used for the purpose...
• Section 55:19-47 - Establishment Of Loan Rates, Maturities; Earnings Paid To The Fund
  28. a. Loan rates and maturities of loans made by the New Jersey Redevelopment Authority shall be established by the Commissioner of Commerce and...
• Section 55:19-48 - County Empowered To Enter Into Contracts With Authority
  29. a. Any county, by resolution of its governing body, shall have power to enter into contracts with the authority relating to any project...
• Section 55:19-49 - Property Of Authority Exempt From Levy, Sale
  30. All property of the authority shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution and no execution or other judicial...
• Section 55:19-50 - Moneys Transferred To The Fund; Functions, Employees, Property Transferred To The Authority
  31. a. All sums appropriated, transferred or otherwise available to the New Jersey Redevelopment Authority from any source, are transferred to the New Jersey...
• Section 55:19-51 - Use Of Moneys, Priorities, Relative To Local Development Financing Fund
  32. Moneys deposited in the fund established pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1983, c.190 (C.34:1B-39), shall be used to provide financial assistance to sponsors...
• Section 55:19-52 - Municipal Ordinance To Provide For Tax Abatement, Payment In Lieu Of Taxes
  33. In order to provide security for the bonds or other obligations authorized herein, a municipality may adopt an ordinance which provides for tax...
• Section 55:19-53 - Financial Agreements To Provide For Repayment Of Bonds
  34. a. A financial agreement entered into pursuant to section 33 of P.L.1996, c.62 (C.55:19-52) shall provide for payments in lieu of taxes in...
• Section 55:19-54 - Definitions Relative To Abandoned Property
  35. For the purposes of this article: "Abandoned property" means any property that is determined to be abandoned pursuant to P.L.2003, c.210 (C.55:19-78 et...
• Section 55:19-55 - Identification Of Abandoned Property, Listing.
  36. a. A qualified municipality that has designated or appointed a public officer pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1942, c.112 (C.40:48-2.5), may adopt an...
• Section 55:19-56 - Sale Of Tax Lien On Abandoned Property; Remediation Costs.
  37. a. Notwithstanding R.S.54:5-19 or the provisions of any other law to the contrary, if a property is included on the abandoned property list...
• Section 55:19-57 - Removal Of Property From List Of Abandoned Properties; Remediation
  38. a. An owner may remove a property from the list of abandoned properties prior to sale of the tax sale certificate by paying...
• Section 55:19-58 - Action To Foreclose Right Of Redemption
  39. a. When a person other than the municipality or the authority or its subsidiaries acquires a tax sale certificate for a property on...
• Section 55:19-59 - Final Judgment Barring Right Of Redemption; Grounds For Reopening
  40. Once a final judgment barring the right of redemption with respect to a property on the list of abandoned properties has been recorded,...
• Section 55:19-60 - Urban Coordinating Council
  45. a. There is established in, but not of, the Department of Community Affairs an Urban Coordinating Council. b. The Urban Coordinating Council shall...
• Section 55:19-61 - Duties Of Urban Coordinating Council
  46. The Urban Coordinating Council shall: a. Ensure that State agencies coordinate responses and provide assistance to projects and programs outlined in neighborhood empowerment...
• Section 55:19-62 - Office Of Neighborhood Empowerment
  47. a. There is established in, but not of, the Department of Community Affairs an Office of Neighborhood Empowerment. b. The Governor shall appoint...
• Section 55:19-63 - Duties Of Office Of Neighborhood Empowerment
  48. The Office of Neighborhood Empowerment shall: a. Provide support for a community director who shall assist local sponsors in developing or implementing neighborhood...
• Section 55:19-64 - Development Of Neighborhood Empowerment Plan
  49. a. In order to qualify to receive the services of the Office of Neighborhood Empowerment and of an interagency team, a community must...
• Section 55:19-65 - Distribution Of Eligibility Guidelines For Participation In Neighborhood Empowerment Program
  50 Within one year of the effective date of P.L.1996, c.62 (C.55:19-20 et al.), the Urban Coordinating Council established pursuant to P.L.1996, c.62 (C.55:19-20...
• Section 55:19-66 - Preference Accorded To Certain Neighborhood Empowerment Plans
  51. In designating qualified municipalities for participation in the neighborhood empowerment program, the Urban Coordinating Council in consultation and in conjunction with the authority...
• Section 55:19-67 - Additional Considerations In Evaluating Neighborhood Empowerment Plan
  52. In addition to the considerations set forth in section 51 of P.L.1996, c.62 (C.55:19-66), the Urban Coordinating Council in consultation and in conjunction...
• Section 55:19-68 - Review Of Applications By Urban Coordinating Council, Authority
  53.Upon receipt of an application from a qualified municipality, the Urban Coordinating Council in consultation and in conjunction with the authority shall review the...
• Section 55:19-69 - Public Hearings On Applications; Determination
  54. a. Once the Urban Coordinating Council in consultation and in conjunction with the authority has identified those qualified municipalities whose neighborhood empowerment plans...
• Section 55:19-70 - Eligibility For Investments From New Jersey Redevelopment Investment Fund
  55. a. Any municipality in which an empowerment neighborhood has been designated shall be eligible for investments by the authority from the New Jersey...
• Section 55:19-71 - Review Of Documents, Remedial Action Workplans
  57. a. Where a person who is performing a remediation on real property located in a qualified municipality, as defined by section 3 of...
• Section 55:19-72 - Urban Site Remediation Coordinator
  58. a. The Commissioner of Environmental Protection shall appoint an Urban Site Remediation Coordinator. The coordinator shall be responsible for the oversight and approval...
• Section 55:19-73 - Allocation Of Loans, Loan Guarantees
  59. Beginning in the calendar year following the effective date of this act, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority shall allocate no less than...
• Section 55:19-74 - Funding Of Projects Through Issuance Of Tax Exempt Bonds
  60. The New Jersey Redevelopment Authority shall fund such projects as may be practicable in any municipality eligible for designation as an empowerment zone...
• Section 55:19-75 - Application For Funding From "Water Supply Bond Act Of 1981"
  61. The authority may apply for funding from the "Water Supply Bond Act of 1981," P.L.1981, c.261. Consideration shall be given to funding such...
• Section 55:19-76 - Application For Funding From P. L.1992, C.88 And P. L.1995, C.204
  62. The authority may apply for funding from the "Green Acres, Clean Water, Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 1992," P.L.1992, c.88 and...
• Section 55:19-77 - Application For Funding From "1992 New Jersey Employment And Workforce Development Act"
  63. The authority may apply for funding from the "1992 New Jersey Employment and Workforce Development Act," P.L.1992, c.43. Consideration shall be given to...
• Section 55:19-78 - Short Title
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Abandoned Properties Rehabilitation Act." L.2003,c.210,s.1.
• Section 55:19-79 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Abandoned Properties
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.Abandoned properties, particularly those located within urban areas or in close proximity to occupied residences and businesses, create...
• Section 55:19-80 - Definitions Relative To Abandoned Property.
  3.As used in sections 1 through 25 of P.L.2003, c.210 (C.55:19-78 through C.55:19-102) and section 3 of P.L.2006, c.24 (C.55:19-107): "Department" means the New...
• Section 55:19-81 - Determination That Property Is Abandoned.
  4.Except as provided in section 6 of P.L.2003, c.210 (C.55:19-83), any property that has not been legally occupied for a period of six months...
• Section 55:19-82 - Determination Of Property As Nuisance
  5.A property may be determined to be a nuisance if: a.The property has been found to be unfit for human habitation, occupancy or use...
• Section 55:19-83 - Property Not To Be Placed On Abandoned Property List; Conditions.
  6. a. If an entity other than the municipality has purchased or taken assignment from the municipality of a tax sale certificate on a...
• Section 55:19-84 - Action To Transfer Property To Municipality
  7.A summary action or otherwise to transfer possession and control of abandoned property in need of rehabilitation to a municipality may be brought by...
• Section 55:19-85 - Complaint, Content
  8.A complaint filed pursuant to section 7 of P.L.2003, c.210 (C.55:19-84) shall include: a.documentation that the property is on the municipal abandoned property list...
• Section 55:19-86 - Complaint, Lis Pendens, Notice; Entry On Property.
  9. a. Within 10 days of filing a complaint pursuant to P.L.2003, c.210 (C.55:19-78 et al.), the plaintiff shall file a notice of lis...
• Section 55:19-87 - Defense By Owner Against Complaint.
  10. a. Any owner may defend against a complaint filed pursuant to section 7 of P.L.2003, c.210 (C.55:19-84) by submitting a plan for the...
• Section 55:19-88 - Designation Of Possessor If Owner Unsuccessful In Defending Against Complaint.
  11. a. If an owner is unsuccessful in defending against a complaint filed pursuant to section 7 of P.L.2003, c.210 (C.55:19-84), the mortgage holder...
• Section 55:19-89 - Submission Of Plan To Court By Municipality
  12. If no mortgage holder or lienholder meets the conditions of section 11 of P.L.2003, c.210 (C.55:19-88), then the municipality shall submit a plan...
• Section 55:19-90 - Municipality, Option Of Designating Qualified Rehabilitation Entity
  13. A municipality may exercise its rights under P.L.2003, c.210 (C.55:19-78 et al.) directly, or may designate a qualified rehabilitation entity to act as...
• Section 55:19-91 - Municipality Deemed To Have Ownership Interest
  14. a. If a municipality has been granted possession of a property pursuant to section 12 of P.L.2003, c.210 (C.55:19-89), that municipality shall be...
• Section 55:19-92 - Petition For Reinstatement Of Owner's Control, Possession
  15. An owner may petition for reinstatement of the owner's control and possession of the property at any time after one year from the...
• Section 55:19-93 - Contents Of Petition
  16. Any petition for reinstatement of the owner's control and possession of the property filed pursuant to section 15 of P.L.2003, c.210 (C.55:19-92) shall:...
• Section 55:19-94 - Security Obligations Of Owner Relative To Granting Of Petition
  17. Prior to the granting of a petition on the part of the owner by the court pursuant to section 15 of P.L.2003, c.210...
• Section 55:19-95 - Granting Of Title To Municipality, Authorization To Sell
  18. If the owner fails to petition for the reinstatement of control and possession of the property within 30 days after the entity in...
• Section 55:19-96 - Procedure For Municipality To Purchase, Sell Property
  19. a. Where the municipality seeks to gain title to the property, it shall purchase the property for fair market value on such terms...
• Section 55:19-97 - Distribution Of Proceeds
  20. The proceeds paid pursuant to subsection c. of section 19 of P.L.2003, c.210 (C.55:19-96) shall be distributed in the following order of priority:...
• Section 55:19-98 - Lien, Special Tax Sales, Remedies
  21. a. The public officer, with the approval of the court, may place a lien on the property to cover any costs of the...
• Section 55:19-99 - Denial Of Rights, Remedies To Lienholder, Mortgage Holder
  22. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in P.L.2003, c.210 (C.55:19-78 et al.), a court may in its discretion deny a lienholder or mortgage...
• Section 55:19-100 - Municipal Recourse With Respect To Lien.
  23.With respect to any lien placed against any real property pursuant to the provisions of section 1 or section 3 of P.L.1942, c.112 (C.40:48-2.3...
• Section 55:19-101 - Special Tax Sales; Notice.
  24.Municipalities may hold special tax sales with respect to those properties eligible for tax sale pursuant to R.S.54:5-19 which are also on an abandoned...
• Section 55:19-102 - Establishment Of Fair Market Value Of Property
  25. With respect to any eminent domain proceeding carried out under section 37 of P.L.1996, c.62 (C.55:19-56), the fair market value of the property...
• Section 55:19-103 - Removal From Abandoned Property List; Conditions
  29. If a property, which an entity other than the municipality has purchased or taken assignment from the municipality of a tax sale certificate,...
• Section 55:19-104 - Creation Of Abandoned Property List; Initiative Procedure
  30. The voters of any municipality which has not adopted an ordinance directing the public officer to create an abandoned property list pursuant to...
• Section 55:19-105 - Request For Inclusion Of Property On Abandoned Property List
  31. a. Any interested party may submit in writing a request to the public officer that a property be included on the abandoned property...
• Section 55:19-106 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Discontinuation Of Certain Utility Service From Abandoned Properties.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.Abandoned properties raise significant concerns for communities where they are located, including fostering criminal activity, posing possible public...
• Section 55:19-107 - Access To Abandoned Property By Utility, Conditions.
  3.A utility may take all necessary steps to enter the premises of, discontinue utility service to, and remove utility equipment from, any property listed...

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