(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 (N.J.S.A. 46:8A-1 et seq.) or the
Condominium Act (N.J.S.A. 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