Whenever: the owner of an apartment in a horizontal property regime as defined in P.L.1963,
c.168 (C.46:8A-1 et seq.), a unit owner of a unit in a condominium as defined in P.L.1969, c.257
(C.46:8B-1 et seq.), an owner of a unit in a fee simple community as defined in section 1 of P.L.1989,
c.299 (C.40:67-23.2) or an owner in a cooperative entity as defined in section 3 of P.L.1987, c.381
(C.46:8D-3) leases an apartment or unit to a tenant, that owner shall be deemed the landlord for the
purposes of filing the certificate of registration as required by section 2 of P.L.1974, c.50 (C.46:8-28).
Nothing in P.L.1974, c.50 shall be construed as requiring a council of co-owners of a horizontal property
regime, a condominium association, an association managing the common or shared elements or
interests in a fee simple community or a cooperative association to comply with the certificate of
registration requirement unless the council or association is the owner or lessor of the apartment or unit.
Nothing in P.L.1974, c.50 shall be construed to require a cooperative corporation to comply with the
certificate of registration requirement unless the corporation leases a unit to a person other than a
proprietary shareholder of the cooperative. The foregoing provisions notwithstanding, the council,
association or cooperative corporation having jurisdiction over a "multiple dwelling," as defined in
section 3 of P.L.1967, c.76 (C.55:13A-3), shall comply with the registration requirements of section 12
of P.L.1967, c.76 (C.55:13A-12) with respect to the multiple dwelling as a whole. The term
"project" as used in this act shall mean a group of buildings which are or are represented to be under
common or substantially common ownership and which stand on a single parcel of land or