Town of West New York, NJ
chevron_right
2022-12-14
info
chevron_right
Part II: General Legislation
chevron_right
Chapter 260 Multiple Dwellings
chevron_right
Article V Conversion of Sleeping Quarters
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Agreements, Joint
- Ch 4 Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
- Ch 5 Attendance Policy
- Ch 6 Authorities
- Ch 8 Automotive Maintenance and Repair, Division of
- Ch 10 Board of Education
- Ch 11 Civil Rights Commission
- Ch 13 Civil Service
- Ch 16 Community Development, Department of
- Ch 19 Construction Board of Appeals
- Ch 21 Construction Code Official
- Ch 24 Court, Municipal
- Ch 27 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 30 Electrical Subcode Official
- Ch 31 Emergency Medical Services
- Ch 33 Environmental Commission
- Ch 36 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 39 Finances
- Ch 42 Fire Department
- Ch 46 Franchises
- Ch 49 Housing, Department of
- Ch 53 (Reserved)
- Ch 56 Law Department
- Ch 58 Library Board
- Ch 59 License Department
- Ch 62 Local Civil Defense Council
- Ch 66 (Reserved)
- Ch 69 Officers and Employees
- Ch 72 Parking Services Agency
- Ch 74 Pensions
- Ch 76 Personnel
- Ch 80 Police Department
- Ch 83 Police and Fire Department Affairs
- Ch 86 Public Affairs, Department of
- Ch 88 Purchasing
- Ch 90 Residency Requirements
- Ch 93 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 95 Sanitation Division
- Ch 97 Swimming Pool Commission, Municipal
- Ch 98 Tenants Advocacy
- Ch 100 Urban Enterprise Zone
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 108 Air Pollution
- Ch 111 Alarm Systems
- Ch 114 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 117 Amusements
- Ch 121 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 124 Automobile Service Stations
- Ch 125 Background Checks
- Ch 126 Bamboo
- Ch 127 Barbershops, Beauty Salons and Nail Salons
- Ch 130 Bicycles, Electric Bicycles and Scooters
- Ch 135 Building Construction Standards
- Ch 139 Buildings, Unfit
- Ch 142 Burglary Prevention
- Ch 145 Canopies and Awnings
- Ch 148 Certificates of Occupancy
- Ch 151 Checks, Returned
- Ch 154 Christmas Tree Sales
- Ch 158 Condominium Conversions
- Ch 161 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 162 Construction Cranes
- Ch 164 Contractors, Registration of
- Ch 167 Curfew
- Ch 170 Defacement of Property
- Ch 174 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 178 Drug Paraphernalia
- Ch 181 Dumpsters/Construction Containers
- Ch 186 Fees
- Ch 189 Filming
- Ch 192 Firearms and Fireworks
- Ch 195 Fire Limits
- Ch 198 Fire Prevention
- Ch 200 First Responder Radio Communications
- Ch 201 Flea Markets
- Ch 204 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 207 Food Handling
- Ch 210 Fuel Devices and Suppliers
- Ch 215 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 218 Heating
- Ch 221 Housing, Affordable
- Ch 222 Identification Card Program
- Ch 223 Insurance
- Ch 227 Junk Dealers
- Ch 231 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 234 Laundries and Dry-Cleaning Establishments
- Ch 237 Limousines and Livery Vehicles
- Ch 242 Littering
- Ch 245 (Reserved)
- Ch 248 Massage Parlors
- Ch 251 Mechanical Standards
- Ch 254 Mobile or Street Food Vendors
- Ch 257 Mopeds
- Ch 260 Multiple Dwellings
- Ch 260 Art V Conversion of Sleeping Quarters
- § 260-29 Conversion of sleeping quarters for separate use prohibited.
- § 260-30 Exceptions.
- § 260-31 When effective.
- § 260-32 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 263 Newsracks
- Ch 266 Noise
- Ch 269 Nuisances
- Ch 273 Obscenity
- Ch 277 Parking
- Ch 280 Parking Lots, Municipal
- Ch 284 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 287 Plastic Coverings and Bags
- Ch 290 Plumbing Standards
- Ch 293 Police Protection
- Ch 296 Precious Metals
- Ch 299 Property Maintenance
- Ch 302 Public Property, Damage to
- Ch 304 Real Property
- Ch 306 Recycling
- Ch 309 Refrigerators, Abandoned
- Ch 310 Relocation Assistance
- Ch 312 Rent Control
- Ch 316 Rooming, Lodging and Boarding Houses
- Ch 319 Sales, Special
- Ch 322 Sanitation
- Ch 325 Screens, Protective
- Ch 327 Security Cameras
- Ch 328 Sewage Disposal, Individual
- Ch 329 Sewerage Authority, North Hudson
- Ch 331 Sewers
- Ch 335 Shows and Exhibitions
- Ch 338 Signs
- Ch 341 Skates, Skateboards, Roller Blades, In-Line Skates and Scooters
- Ch 344 Smoke Detectors
- Ch 345 Smoking
- Ch 348 Solid Waste Disposal
- Ch 352 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 355 Strikebreakers
- Ch 358 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 361 Swimming Pools
- Ch 364 Taxation
- Ch 367 Taxicabs
- Ch 370 Telephones
- Ch 374 Tort Claims
- Ch 377 Towing
- Ch 379 Tree Removal
- Ch 380 Utility Poles and Underground Facilities
- Ch 380A Vacation Rentals, Short-Term
- Ch 381 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 382 Vehicle Boot Pilot Program
- Ch 384 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 387 Vehicles, Motor-Driven
- Ch 391 Vehicles, Storage of
- Ch 394 Vending Machines, Food
- Ch 398 Vibration
- Ch 401 Water
- Ch 403 Waterfronts
- Ch 406 Weapons
- Ch 409 Weeds
- Ch 414 Zoning
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 3-16-1983 by Ord. No. 1593]
|
WHEREAS, the conversion, rental, use or occupancy of separate furnished
or unfurnished sleeping quarters in buildings designed for three and four
or more dwellings and the resultant fragmentation of dwellings into rooms
or spaces of housing for rental is contrary to the Zoning and Building Codes
of the Town of West New York and causes substandard housing conditions harmful
to the public health, safety and welfare of the community, and
|
|
WHEREAS, many of the buildings in West New York lack design and safety
features to accommodate the overcrowding of persons, which results from such
conversions and use, and
|
|
WHEREAS, the sharing of common kitchen, bath and toilet facilities in
a dwelling is an arrangement which creates problems of health, safety and
sanitation for the community as well as the occupants, including the difficulty
of enforcing cleanliness, controlling and supervising uses of such facilities,
and an increased risk of communication of diseases and an accelerated deterioration
of the dwelling unit due to overuse.
|
|
Now therefore, be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of the Town
of West New York, County of Hudson, State of New Jersey, as follows:
|
No person, firm, corporation, entity, owner, tenant, subtenant or other
person having the ownership or control of any dwelling unit in any three-
or four-family or multiple dwelling building shall convert or enter into any
other arrangement to permit any person, firm, corporation or entity to change,
occupy, use, control or maintain any room or rooms within their building for
separate use as a subdivision of the dwelling unit and solely as a place of
sleeping accommodation, whether furnished or unfurnished, nor permit any person,
firm or entity to share, use or maintain any kitchen, bath or toilet facilities
within any dwelling unit occupied by another person, firm, entity, corporation
or family unit.
A.
The prohibition set forth in this article shall not apply
to any building which is exclusively designed, used and rented as a rooming
house, boardinghouse, hotel, motel or one- or two-family houses, provided
that same is licensed under the laws of the State of New Jersey or any applicable
laws of the Town of West New York.
B.
The prohibition set forth in this article shall not apply
to temporary overnight guests who are related to the legal occupant of the
dwelling unit, by blood or marriage.
This article shall take effect immediately upon passage and publication
according to law; provided, however, that any person, firm, corporation or
entity who presently occupies a furnished or unfurnished living accommodation
which is in violation of this article shall be permitted to remain in occupancy
for a period of 30 days from the date of notice of this violation to afford
such occupant that thirty-day period of time to locate a substitute living
accommodation which conforms to the codes and ordinances of the Town of West
New York.
Any person who violates the terms of this article shall be subject to
a fine of not less than $100 or not more than $500 and/or term of imprisonment
of not more than 90 days. Each day or part thereof that a violation shall
continue after written notice to cease is served by the Town upon the owner
or managing agent of the building shall constitute a separate violation of
this article.
