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A1350
ASSEMBLY, No. 1350
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
222nd LEGISLATURE
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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman CODY D. MILLER
District 4 (Atlantic, Camden and Gloucester)
Assemblyman DAN HUTCHISON
District 4 (Atlantic, Camden and Gloucester)
SYNOPSIS
���� Requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to notify
certain municipal officials of receipt of application for licensure of
cooperative sober living residence.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.
��
An Act
requiring the Commissioner of Community Affairs
to notify certain municipal officials of receipt of application for licensure
of a cooperative sober living residence and amending P.L.1979, c.496.
����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:
���� 1.��� Section 7 of P.L.1979,
c.496 (C.55:13B-7) is amended to read as follows:
���� 7. a. (1) No person shall own
or operate a rooming or boarding house, hold out a building as available for
rooming or boarding house occupancy, or apply for any necessary construction or
planning approvals related to the establishment of a rooming or boarding house
without a valid license to own or operate
[
such
a
]
the
facility, issued by the commissioner and, if appropriate, by a municipality
which has elected to issue
[
such
]
licenses
pursuant to P.L.1993, c.290 (C.40:52-9 et seq.).
���� (2)�� (Deleted by amendment,
P.L.2015, c.125)
���� (3)�� Any person found to be
in violation of this subsection shall be liable for a civil penalty of not more
than $5,000 for each building so owned or operated, which penalty shall be
payable to the appropriate licensing entity.
���� b.��� The commissioner shall
establish separate categories of licensure for owning and for operating a
rooming or boarding house, provided, however, that an owner who
[
himself
]
operates such
a facility need not also possess an operator's license.
���� If an owner seeking to be
licensed is other than an individual, the application shall state the name of
an individual who is a member, officer, or stockholder in the corporation or
association seeking to be licensed, and the same shall be designated the primary
owner of the rooming or boarding house.
���� Each application for licensure
shall contain
[
such
]
information
[
as
]
the
commissioner may prescribe and, unless the person is licensed by a municipality
to own or operate a rooming and boarding house pursuant to P.L.1993, c.290
(C.40:52-9 et seq.), shall be accompanied by a fee established by the
commissioner which shall not be less than $150 or more than $600, except as
provided in subsection e. of this section.�
For an application for a Class F
license described in N.J.A.C. 5:27-1.6, or any successor license, to own or
operate a cooperative sober living residence, the commissioner shall as soon as
practicable following receipt of the application notify in writing the
municipal clerk and mayor or other chief executive officer of the municipality
in which the applicant proposes to own or operate the cooperative sober living
residence to inform the municipality of receipt of the application.
� If,
upon receipt of the fee and a review of
[
the
]
an
application
to operate, or provide for the operation of, a rooming or
boarding house
, the commissioner determines that the applicant will
operate, or provide for the operation of, a rooming or boarding house in
accordance with the provisions of
[
this
act
]
P.L.1979,
c.496 (C.55:15B-1 et seq.)
, the commissioner shall issue a license to the
applicant.
���� Each license shall be valid
for one year from the date of issuance, but may be renewed upon application by
the owner or operator and upon payment of the same fee required for initial
licensure.
���� c.���� Only one license shall
be required to own a rooming or boarding house, but an endorsement thereto
shall be required for each separate building owned and operated, or intended to
be operated, as a rooming or boarding house.� Each application for licensure or
renewal shall indicate every
[
such
]
building for
which an endorsement is required.� If, during the term of a license, an
additional endorsement is required, or an existing one is no longer required,
an amended application for licensure shall be submitted.
���� d.��� A person making
application for, or who has been issued, a license to own or operate a rooming
or boarding house who conceals the fact that the person has been denied a
license to own or operate a residential facility, or that the person's license
to own or operate a residential facility has been revoked by a department or
agency of state government in this or any other state is liable for a civil
penalty of not more than $5,000, and any license to own or operate a rooming or
boarding house which has been issued to that person shall be immediately
revoked.
���� e.���� The commissioner shall
annually review the cost of administering and enforcing this section and shall
establish by rule such changes to the license application fee as may be
necessary to cover the cost of
[
such
]
administration and enforcement.
(cf: P.L.2015, c.125, s.14)
���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.
STATEMENT
���� This bill requires the
Commissioner of Community Affairs to notify the municipal clerk and mayor or
other chief executive officer of a municipality of receipt of an application
for a Class F license described in N.J.A.C. 5:27-1.6, or any successor license,
to own or operate a cooperative sober living residence in the municipality.�
The bill makes additional technical changes.