New Jersey Statutes 55:13A-7.14. Leases, required notices advising of availability; delivery, posting
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 55:13A-7.14
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
b. (1) At the time of lease signing, the owner, lessor, agent or other person who manages or controls a unit of dwelling space in a multiple dwelling shall verbally inform the tenant of the tenant’s right to request the installation of window guards under P.L.1995, c.120 (C. 55:13A-7.12 et seq.). Verification that this verbal notice was provided and understood shall be set forth in a written document, aside from the lease document itself, which written document shall acknowledge that the tenant was made aware of the right to request the installation of window guards and which shall be signed by both the tenant and the owner, lessor, agent or other person who manages or controls the unit of dwelling space.
(2) (a) The owner, lessor, agent or other person who manages or controls a multiple dwelling unit or a rental unit within a common interest community shall cause to be delivered to each dwelling unit so managed or controlled, twice annually, a notice, in form and manner prescribed by the commissioner, advising occupants of the obligation of the said owner, lessor, agent or other person to install child-protection window guards pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1995, c.120 (C. 55:13A-7.13). For the purposes of this section, an owner of a rental unit located within a common interest community, and not the unit owners’ association, shall be deemed to be the managing agent of that rental unit. A lease provision notifying a tenant of the availability of window guards may satisfy one of the notice requirements of this subparagraph.
(b) The owner, lessor, unit owners’ association, agent or other person who manages or controls the common areas of a multiple dwelling shall cause to be delivered to each dwelling unit, twice annually, a notice, in form and manner prescribed by the commissioner, advising occupants of the obligation of the said owner, lessor, unit owners’ association, agent or other person to install child-protection window guards pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1995, c.120 (C. 55:13A-7.13). A lease provision notifying a tenant of the availability of window guards may satisfy one of the notice requirements of this subparagraph.
(3) The owner, lessor, unit owners’ association, agent or other person who manages or controls the common areas of a multiple dwelling shall cause to be conspicuously posted and prominently displayed in the common areas of that dwelling a notice advising the occupants of the obligation of the owner, lessor, unit owners’ association, agent or other person to install child-protection window guards pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1995, c.120 (C. 55:13A-7.13) and advising tenants to check their window guards on a regular basis and to report any problems or concerns to the owner, lessor, unit owners’ association, agent or other person who manages or controls the multiple dwelling.
c. Notwithstanding any municipal ordinance to the contrary, expenditures not exceeding $20 per window guard installed in a dwelling unit that are made pursuant to P.L.1995, c.120 (C. 55:13A-7.12 et seq.) may be passed on to the tenant who requested installation of the window guard.
L.1995,c.120,s.3; amended 2006, c.55, s.3.