Jersey City, NJ Short-Term Rentals: Repeat Violator Strikes (2026)

I creates Jersey City's repeat-violator mechanism for short-term rentals. If a short-term rental property (STRP) is the subject of three or more substantiated complaints, defined in § 255-1 as a civil or criminal complaint, summons, or notice of violation supported by substantial evidence, the Director of the Division of Housing Preservation or the Business Administrator (or either one's designee) shall revoke the permit, and the property cannot be the subject of a new STR permit application for one full year from the date of revocation.

The same officials retain discretion to revoke after just a single substantiated complaint if, in their sole judgment, the interests of the City and its residents justify immediate revocation, and they may suspend a permit pending substantiation whenever a complaint or code violation involves a 'dangerous condition', defined as a condition creating a substantial risk of injury to life or property. J: two substantiated complaints about excessive vehicles from an STR's transient occupants independently expose the permit to revocation. J(3).