New Jersey Statutes 46:3-23. Discrimination prohibited in promise, covenant, restriction
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 46:3-23
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to bar any person from refusing to sell, rent, lease, assign, or sublease any room, apartment or flat in a dwelling or residential facility which is planned exclusively for or occupied exclusively for individuals of one sex to any individual of the opposite sex on the basis of sex. Nothing in this section shall be construed to bar any place of public accommodation which is in its nature reasonably restricted exclusively to individuals of one sex, which shall include but not be limited to any summer camp, day camp, bathhouse, dressing room, and comfort station, from refusing, withholding from, or denying to any individual of the opposite sex any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges thereof on the basis of sex.
L. 1965,c.67; amended 1987,c.357,s.1.