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A1265 • 2026

Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.

Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.

Housing
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Inganamort, Michael
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Housing Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.

Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.

What This Bill Does

  • Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.
  • Topic: Housing Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Housing Committee

Official Summary Text

Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.
Topic:
Housing
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1265

ASSEMBLY, No. 1265

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman MICHAEL INGANAMORT

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

Assemblywoman DAWN FANTASIA

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

SYNOPSIS

���� Revises definition of "landlord" to include
rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances
holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.

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An Act

concerning owners and operators of rooming
houses and amending P.L.1993, c.127.

����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� Section 2 of P.L.1993,
c.127 (C.40:48-2.12o) is amended to read as follows:

���� 2.��� As used in this act:

���� "Hearing officer"
means a person designated pursuant to subsection b. of section 3 of P.L.1993,
c.127 (C.40:48-2.12p) to hear and determine proceedings under P.L.1993, c.127
(C.40:48-2.12n et seq.).

���� "Landlord" means the
person or persons who own or purport to own a building in which there is rented
or offered for rent housing space for living or dwelling under either a written
or oral lease which building contains no more than four dwelling units
, or
is the owner or operator of a rooming house or boarding house, as defined by
section 3 of P.L.1979, c.496 (C.55:13B-3)
.� In the case of a mobile home
park, "landlord" shall mean the owner of an individual dwelling unit
within the mobile home park.

���� "Substantiated
complaint" means a complaint which may form the basis for proceedings in
accordance with subsection a. of section 4 of P.L.1993, c.127 (C.40:48-2.12q).

(cf: P.L.2009, c.170, s.2)

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately and shall be applicable to ordinances adopted on or after
the effective date of this act.

STATEMENT

���� This bill revises the
definition of �landlord� for purposes of P.L.1993, c.127 (C.40:48-2.12n et
seq.) in order to include owners and operators of rooming and boarding houses.�
This would authorize a municipality to adopt ordinances to enforce standards of
responsible conduct in a community with respect to these houses.

���� Section 3 of P.L.1993, c.127
(C.40:48-2.12p) grants a municipality the authority to adopt an ordinance to
curb and discourage occasional excesses arising from irresponsible rentals in
an effort to protect a community�s interest in preserving peace and tranquility.�
Currently, only smaller, non-professionally managed rental properties of less
than four units and owners of mobile home units may be the subject of such an
ordinance.� This bill extends the definition of �landlord� in section 2 of
P.L.1993, c.127 (C.40:48-2.12o) to include owners and operators of rooming and
boarding houses.� Specifically, this revision would authorize the governing
body of a municipality to adopt an ordinance holding owners and operators of
rooming and boarding houses to the same standards of responsibility as may be
required of smaller, non-professionally managed rental properties of less than
four units and mobile home owners.

���� This revision would not impact
the applicability of any existing municipal ordinance.� If a municipality has
adopted an ordinance pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1993, c.127 (C.40:48-2.12p),
another ordinance would have to be adopted with respect to owners and operators
of rooming and boarding houses.