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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE XIX, RENT CONTROL, CHAPTER 19, RENT CONTROL REGULATIONS; RENT CONTROL BOARD, SECTION 19:2-2, DEFINITIONS, OF THE REVISED GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, 2000, AS AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTED, TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF EXEMPTIONS AND MULTIPLE DWELLING AND TO ADD SUBSECTION 19:2-2.1, APPLICABILITY.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY THAT:
Note: Additions are shown as underlined and bold. Deletions are shown as strikethroughs.
SECTION 1.
19:2-2 DEFINITIONS.
EXEMPTIONS
Shall mean dwellings to which this chapter shall not apply. Exempt dwellings include all public housing; owner-occupied one, two, three or four family housing space units; any motel or hotel space rented on a day-to-day basis to transients; and any dwelling, building or structure, or portion thereof, rented for commercial use. Also exempted are those units which have been rehabilitated by the Federal and State Rental Rehabilitation Programs as administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs or the New Jersey Housing Mortgage Finance Agency and will be receiving Section 8 rent subsidies or Federal housing vouchers. In these units, rent will be allowed to be raised, but will not exceed the fair market rents as established by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. These units will be exempt only during the unit's tenure in the Section 8 subsidy or Rental Rehabilitation Program. Also exempted are newly constructed multiple dwellings and vacant dwellings as set forth in this chapter at subsections 19:2-18.1 and 19:2-18.2, respectively.
SECTION 2.
19:2-2 DEFINITIONS.
MULTIPLE DWELLING
Shall mean and include any building or structure and land appurtenant thereto containing three one or more apartments or rented or offered for rent to three one or more tenants or family units.
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