N.J. DCA Landlord/Tenant Information Series — Condominium and Cooperative Conversion Law

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N.J. DCA Landlord/Tenant Information Series — Condominium and Cooperative Conversion Law
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New Jersey (state)
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b. "Disabled tenant" means a person who is, on the date of the conversion recording for the
building or structure in which is located the dwelling unit of which he is a tenant, totally and
permanently unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically
determinable physical or mental impairment, including blindness, or a person who has been
honorably discharged or released under honorable circumstances from active service in any
branch of the United States Armed Forces and who is rated as having a 60% disability or higher
as a result of that service pursuant to any federal law administered by the United States Veterans'
Act; provided that the building or structure has been the principal residence of the disabled
tenant for at least one year immediately preceding the conversion recording or that the building
or structure is the principal residence of the disabled tenant under the terms of a lease for a
period of more than one year. For the purposes of this subsection, "blindness" means central
visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with the use of correcting lens. An eye which is
accompanied by a limitation in the fields of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual
field subtends an angle no greater than 20 degrees shall be considered as having a central visual
acuity of 20/200 or less;