Jersey City, NJ Building Safety: Lead Paint (2026)

1, added by Ord. No. L. 2021, c. 182) to register with the Division of Housing Preservation by June 30, 2023, either on paper forms or through the city's web-based registration portal once created. The registration must list the owner's and lessor's names and addresses, the local agent in charge, the dwelling's address and entrance count, and the name of each tenant, and it must be updated within 20 days of any tenant turnover, defined in Subsection D as the point when all existing occupants vacate and new occupants move in.

Whoever signs the registration must certify its accuracy. The underlying inspection cycle, quoted directly from the Act in Subsection E, covers every single-family, two-family and multiple rental dwelling in the city: each such unit must be inspected for lead-based paint hazards at tenant turnover, or within two years of the Act's effective date if that comes first, and thereafter re-inspected the earlier of every three years or at the next tenant turnover, unless the owner already holds a valid lead-safe certification. Units are exempt from inspection if they are certified free of lead-based paint, were built during or after 1978, sit in a multiple dwelling registered with the state Department of Community Affairs for at least ten years with no outstanding lead violations, are a single-family or two-family seasonal rental leased for under six months a year without consecutive renewals, or already carry a valid lead-safe certification.