Bill Text: NJ A2267 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Requires owners of certain multiple dwellings of three or more floors to provide priority status to senior citizens and disabled residents moving to lower floors.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-12-15 - Assembly Floor Amendment Passed (Wimberly) [A2267 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2022-A2267-Amended.html
[Second Reprint]
ASSEMBLY, No. 2267
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
220th LEGISLATURE
INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman CAROL A. MURPHY
District 7 (Burlington)
Assemblywoman ANNETTE CHAPARRO
District 33 (Hudson)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman Jimenez
SYNOPSIS
Requires owners of certain multiple dwellings of three or more floors to provide priority status to senior citizens and disabled residents moving to lower floors.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As amended by the General Assembly on December 15, 2022.
An Act concerning services available to certain residents in multiple dwellings and supplementing P.L.1967, c.76 (C.55:13A-1 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. For purposes of this section, "qualifying resident" means a senior citizen or a person with a disability which hinders or limits mobility.
b. The owner of a multiple dwelling with three or more floors 2that is not held in a cooperative form of ownership2 shall grant priority status to a qualifying resident who is seeking to move into a unit 1with the same number of bedrooms1 located on a lower floor within the multiple dwelling. A qualifying resident shall be granted the right of first refusal over applicants seeking to move into the multiple dwelling and over other non-qualifying residents of the multiple dwelling seeking to move into a unit on a lower floor. 1The requirements of this subsection shall not displace any existing affordability requirements, targeting requirements, and income restrictions in place for the multiple dwelling 2[, unless the tenant agrees to a smaller or larger unit]2 .1
c. The owner, or an agent thereof, shall post, in the same location and manner as a certificate of registration pursuant to subsection a. of section 12 of P.L.1967, c.76 (C.55:13A-12), a sign that contains information regarding the priority status granted to qualifying residents.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
