3 rules for unincorporated Atlantic County, New Jersey.
Verified from official government sources
Rent control is legal in New Jersey and real in Atlantic County. Municipalities may cap rents under their police power, N.J.S.A. 40:48-2, upheld in Inganamort v. Borough of Fort Lee (1973). Atlantic City runs a long-standing rent-control ordinance; Pleasantville adopted one in 2024. Most shore towns have none.
N.J.S.A. 40:48-2
Any municipality may make, amend, repeal and enforce such other ordinances, regulations, rules and by-laws not contrary to the laws of this state or of the United States, as it may deem necessary and proper for the good government, order and protection of persons and property, and for the preservation of the public health, safety and welfare of the municipality and its inhabitants...
New Jersey bars eviction without good cause statewide. Under the Anti-Eviction Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1, a landlord may remove a residential tenant only on an enumerated ground. It binds every Atlantic County municipality, but it does not reach seasonal shore rentals or owner-occupied buildings of two or fewer units.
N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1
No lessee or tenant or the assigns, under-tenants or legal representatives of such lessee or tenant may be removed by the Superior Court from any house, building, mobile home or land in a mobile home park or tenement leased for residential purposes... except upon establishment of one of the following grounds as good cause: a. The person fails to pay rent due and owing under the lease whether th...
Every New Jersey landlord must register the rental. Under the Landlord Identity Law, N.J.S.A. 46:8-28, the owner files a certificate of registration with the municipal clerk, or with the state for larger multiple dwellings. Atlantic County shore towns layer seasonal-rental licenses and certificates of occupancy on top.
N.J.S.A. 46:8-28
Every landlord shall, within 30 days following the effective date of this act, or at the time of the creation of the first tenancy in any newly constructed or reconstructed building, file with the clerk of the municipality, or with such other municipal official as is designated by the clerk, in which the residential property is situated...
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