N.J. DCA Landlord/Tenant Information Series — Eviction Law

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N.J. DCA Landlord/Tenant Information Series — Eviction Law
Jurisdiction
New Jersey (state)
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https://www.nj.gov/dca/codes/publications/pdf_lti/evic_law.pdf ↗

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As used in this amendatory and supplementary act:
a. "Senior citizen tenant" means a person who is at least 62 years of age 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, or the
surviving spouse of such a person if the person should die after the owner files the conversion recording
and the surviving spouse is at least 50 years of age at the time of the filing; provided that the building or
structure has been the principal residence of the senior citizen tenant or the spouse for at least one year
immediately preceding the conversion recording or the death or that the building or structure is the principal
residence of the senior citizen tenant or the spouse under the terms of a lease for a period of more than
one year, as the case may be;
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