As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
The Rent Control Board of the Township.
A certificate issued by the Township's Office of Code Enforcement
certifying that the common areas of the landlord's grounds and buildings
used in the rental operation are 90% qualitatively free of all violations
of the Freehold Township Property Maintenance Code[1] and the Property Maintenance Code of the State of New
Jersey where applicable.
That area which includes the internal streets, sidewalks,
grounds, clubhouses, facilities for which there is common access and
entrances into the individual lots rented by the tenants to the extent
that the landlord has contracted pursuant to a leasing arrangement
to maintain said grounds.
Clubhouse, pools, tennis courts, laundry rooms and similar
facilities which are used in common by the tenants.
The index published periodically by the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
United States Department of Labor (all items) for the Metropolitan
New York City - Northern New Jersey area, Urban Wage Earners and Clerical
Workers, with index base of 1967 = 100.
A space or a lot rented for the purposes of locating a manufactured/mobile
home thereon and shall include all privileges, services, equipment,
facilities and improvements connected with the use and occupancy of
such portion of the property.
[Amended 12-22-2009 by Ord. No. O-09-36]
The owner or entity renting housing space to a tenant or
tenants, or offering housing space for rent to tenant or tenants.
A rental increase provision described in § 261-10 which allows a rental unit’s rental increase to be based on market forces without regard to the rental restrictions imposed by this chapter. Note: Market adjustment only applies in limited circumstances for a one-time-only rental increase, all as provided in § 261-10 herein.
[Added 12-17-2013 by Ord. No. O-13-41]
Includes any manufactured/mobile homes, manufactured/mobile
home lots, space in a manufactured/mobile home park which is rented
or offered for rent to one or more tenants.
[Amended 12-22-2009 by Ord. No. O-09-36]
The same as "housing space."
That if a resulting rental shall include $0.01 to $0.50,
the rental shall be exclusive of the cents; if the resulting rental
shall include $0.51 to $0.99, the rental shall be rounded upward to
the next whole dollar.
Mailing, certified mail, return receipt requested,
to the address of the tenant's unit rented from the landlord or to
such other address which the tenant may request such notices be mailed;
or
Personal delivery to tenant, certified to by
affidavit of the person accomplishing the personal delivery or by
acknowledgement of service executed by the person served, which affidavit
or acknowledgement of service must be retained by the person causing
service and filed with the Board upon request. Proper service of notice
as contemplated within this chapter shall be a prerequisite to the
implementation of any rental increase hereunder. Wherever more than
one person shall rent any one unit, service upon one tenant shall
be sufficient as service upon all such tenants.
A person or persons or family unit renting housing space
from a landlord.
A multiple dwelling unit which either is no longer the subject of a leasing arrangement, written or oral, or where tenants of the multiple dwelling unit have no intention to return thereto before the expiration of the leasing arrangement. A vacant unit shall not include a manufactured/mobile home lot upon which is located a manufactured/mobile home which is owned by a person or entity other than the landlord, except in applying the market adjustment provisions of § 261-10 herein.
[Amended 12-22-2009 by Ord. No. O-09-36; 12-17-2013 by Ord. No.
O-13-41]
