ADVERTISE or ADVERTISING
Any form of solicitation, promotion, and communication for
marketing that is used to solicit, encourage, persuade, or manipulate
viewers, readers, or listeners into contracting for goods and/or services
in violation of this chapter. This includes the use of media and includes,
but is not limited to, the use of newspapers, magazines, flyers, handbills,
pamphlets, direct mail, internet websites or text or other electronic
messages for the purpose of establishing occupancies or uses of rental
property, for payment, which is prohibited by this chapter.
CONSIDERATION
Soliciting any money, charging or demanding same, receiving,
or accepting any form of consideration, including a promise or benefit,
a quid pro quo, rent, fees, other forms of payment or thing of value.
DWELLING UNIT
Any structure or portion thereof, furnished or unfurnished,
which is occupied in whole or in part, or intended, arranged, or designed
to be occupied, for sleeping, dwelling, cooking, gathering and/or
entertaining, as residential occupancy, by one or more persons. This
includes an apartment, condominium, building, co-operative, converted
space or portions thereof used for accommodations, lodging, cooking,
sleeping, gathering and/or entertaining of occupants and/or guest(s)
for consideration for a period of 30 days or less.
HOUSEKEEPING UNIT
A family-type situation, involving one or more persons, living
together that exhibit the kind of stability, permanency, and functional
lifestyle equivalent to that of a traditional family unit, as further
described in the applicable reported and unreported decisions of the
New Jersey Superior Court.
OCCUPANT
Any individual using, inhabiting, living, gathering, entertaining,
being entertained as a guest, or sleeping in a dwelling unit, or portion
thereof, or having other permission or possessory right(s) within
a dwelling unit.
OWNER
Any person(s) or entity(ies), association, limited liability
company, corporation, or partnership, or any combination, who legally
use, possess, own, lease, sublease or license (including an operator,
principal, shareholder, director, agent, or employee, individually
or collectively) that has charge, care, control, or participates in
the expenses and/or profit of a dwelling unit pursuant to a written
or unwritten agreement, rental, lease, license, use, occupancy agreement
or any other agreement.
PERSON
An individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership,
limited liability company, association, entity, and any person(s)
and/or entity(ies) acting in concert or any combination therewith.
SHORT-TERM RENTAL
Rental of a dwelling unit, or any part of a dwelling unit,
including any accessory building, structure or use to the dwelling
unit including, but not limited to, a vehicle parked on the property,
for 30 consecutive days or less, excluding community residences, shelters,
adult family care homes, a residence temporarily occupied by the owner
or another residential property within the Township then undergoing
construction activity, or the extension, on a month-to-month basis,
of any existing lease with a term of at least six months duration
by the existing tenant.
The residential occupancy of an otherwise lawful and lawfully
occupied dwelling unit for a period of 30 days or less by any person
who is a member of the housekeeping unit of the owner, without consideration,
such as house guests, is permitted.
It shall be unlawful to advertise, solicit or promote by any
means actions in violation of this chapter.