SENATE, No. 274

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2010 SESSION

 


 

Sponsored by:

Senator  BRIAN P. STACK

District 33 (Hudson)

Senator  M. TERESA RUIZ

District 29 (Essex and Union)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires written residential leases to be provided in both English and Spanish in certain municipalities.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

  


An Act concerning certain written leases and supplementing P.L.1975, c.310 (C.46:8-43 et seq.).

 

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

 

     1.    No landlord shall offer to any tenant or prospective tenant, or enter into, any written lease unless the landlord provides the lease in both the English and Spanish languages, in any municipality containing election districts in which bilingual sample ballots must be provided pursuant to R.S.19:14-21, R.S.19:49-4, or section 2 of P.L.1965, c.29 (C.19:23-22.4). 

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill provides that no landlord shall offer to any tenant or prospective tenant, or enter into, any written lease unless the landlord provides the lease in both the English and Spanish languages, in any municipality containing election districts in which bilingual sample ballots must be provided pursuant to R.S.19:14-21, R.S.19:49-4, or section 2 of P.L.1965, c.29 (C.19:23-22.4).