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New Jersey Statutes, Title: 46, PROPERTY
Chapter 8: Attornments by tenant to strangers to title; effect
Section: 46:8-59: Immunity.
8. a. To encourage residential landlords to provide housing opportunities to formerly incarcerated individuals, landlords subject to the provisions of this act shall be immune from liability in any civil action arising as a result of the landlord's decision to rent to individuals with a criminal record or who were otherwise convicted of a criminal offense, or as a result of a landlord's decision to not engage in a criminal background screening.
b. Nothing in subsection a. of this section shall be construed to affect in any way the immunity from liability conferred by law upon a landlord who rents an apartment to a person with a conviction for murder, aggravated sexual assault, kidnapping, arson, human trafficking, sexual assault in violation of N.J.S.2C:14-2, causing or permitting a child to engage in a prohibited sexual act or in the simulation of such an act in violation of paragraph (3) of subsection b. of N.J.S.2C:24-4, or any crime that resulted in lifetime registration in a state sex offender registry.
L.2021, c.110, s.8.
This section added to the Rutgers Database: 2021-08-05 15:01:30.
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