N.J. Admin. Code § 5:10-4.1

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 21, November 4, 2024

Section 5:10-4.1 - Concurrent responsibilities

(a) Owners, including agents of owners, managing agents and superintendents shall have the general duties outlined herein for the maintenance of the premises, and no such person shall be relieved from any such responsibility hereunder by reason of the fact that an occupant or other person shall have similar responsibilities or shall have failed to report any violation, nor shall any such person be relieved of any responsibility by the terms or provisions of any lease, contract or agreement.

(b) Occupants, and to the extent provided herein, members of their families, or other persons living on the premises shall have the general duties outlined herein for occupants for the maintenance of the premises, and no such person shall be relieved from any such responsibility by reason of the fact that any owner or operator shall have similar responsibilities, nor shall any person be relieved of any responsibility by the terms or provisions of any contract, lease or agreement.

(c) In any premises subject to either the Horizontal Property Act (46:8A-1 et seq.) or the Condominium Act (46:8B-1 et seq.), the council of co-owners or condominium association, as the case may be, shall have the duties of an owner as set forth in these regulations. However, any such council or association shall only be required to abate those violations which pertain either to the common areas or common elements or which it has the right, pursuant to contract or otherwise, to require the owner of the individual dwelling unit to abate. Owners of individual dwelling units shall be responsible for the abatement of violations and for the maintenance of records pertaining only to each such unit; provided, however, that the responsibilities of the dwelling unit owner and of the council or association may be concurrent.

1. It shall be the duty of the council of co-owners or association, as the case may be, to forward a notice for payment of the $ 20.00 inspection fee set forth at 5:10-1.12(h)4 to the unit owner and to identify those tenant-occupied units known to the association prior to the five-year cyclical inspection.

N.J. Admin. Code § 5:10-4.1

Amended by R.2005 d.144, effective 5/16/2005.
See: 36 N.J.R. 2106(a), 37 N.J.R. 1754(c).
In (c), inserted "and for the maintenance of records" following "abatement of violations" in the introductory paragraph, added 1.