Landlord Identity / Registration Law

N.J.S.A. 46:8-27 to -29

New Jersey's Landlord Identity Law requires every landlord of rented residential housing (the definition excludes owner-occupied two-unit premises) to file a certificate of registration — with the municipal clerk for one-dwelling-unit rentals and non-owner-occupied two-dwelling-unit premises, or with the DCA Bureau of Housing Inspection for multiple dwellings subject to the Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Law — and to give each tenant a copy of the certificate. The certificate must identify the record owner, the corporate registered agent and officers (if a corporation), the managing agent, an in-county person authorized to accept tenant notices, issue receipts, and accept service of process, and an emergency contact with authority to make repairs.