For the purpose of this article, the following meanings shall
apply:
HEARING OFFICER
A person designated by the Township Council to hear and determine
proceedings under this article. The hearing officer shall be a licensed
attorney in the State of New Jersey. The hearing officer may not own
or lease any real property within the Township nor hold any interest
in the assets of or profits arising from the ownership or lease of
such property.
LANDLORD
The person or persons who own or purport to own any building
in which there is rented or offered for rent housing space for living
or dwelling under either a written or oral lease, which building contains
no more than four dwelling units.
SUBSTANTIATED CONVICTION
An act of disorderly, indecent, tumultuous or riotous conduct,
including, by way of example but not limited to, simple assault, terroristic
threats, harassment, urinating in public, lewdness, criminal mischief,
or excessive noise upon or in proximity to any rental premises and
attributable to the acts or incitements of any of the tenants of those
premises which have been substantiated by prosecution and conviction
in any court of competent jurisdiction.