New Jersey Statutes 46:8-59. Immunity
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 46:8-59
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- 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
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
8. a. To encourage residential landlords to provide housing opportunities to formerly incarcerated individuals, landlords subject to the provisions of this act shall be immune from liability in any civil action arising as a result of the landlord’s decision to rent to individuals with a criminal record or who were otherwise convicted of a criminal offense, or as a result of a landlord’s decision to not engage in a criminal background screening.
b. Nothing in subsection a. of this section shall be construed to affect in any way the immunity from liability conferred by law upon a landlord who rents an apartment to a person with a conviction for murder, aggravated sexual assault, kidnapping, arson, human trafficking, sexual assault in violation of N.J.S.2C:14-2, causing or permitting a child to engage in a prohibited sexual act or in the simulation of such an act in violation of paragraph (3) of subsection b. of N.J.S.2C:24-4, or any crime that resulted in lifetime registration in a state sex offender registry.
b. Nothing in subsection a. of this section shall be construed to affect in any way the immunity from liability conferred by law upon a landlord who rents an apartment to a person with a conviction for murder, aggravated sexual assault, kidnapping, arson, human trafficking, sexual assault in violation of N.J.S.2C:14-2, causing or permitting a child to engage in a prohibited sexual act or in the simulation of such an act in violation of paragraph (3) of subsection b. of N.J.S.2C:24-4, or any crime that resulted in lifetime registration in a state sex offender registry.
L.2021, c.110, s.8.