No person, group of persons, association, partnership or corporation
or any combination thereof who owns, manages, conducts or operates
a dwelling unit shall rent, lease, let, sublet or permit the same
to be occupied or re-rented by another without first securing from
the public officer of the Borough a certificate of occupancy for said
dwelling unit.
[Amended 4-9-1997 by Ord. No. 1011]
No certificate of occupancy shall be issued for a dwelling unit unless the condition of same complies with Chapter
240, Property Maintenance Code, and with all of the ordinances of the Borough now in existence or hereafter enacted pertaining to building, plumbing, electrical, zoning, health, safety, fire and minimum housing standards and all departmental regulations established pursuant to said ordinances or laws. Furthermore, no certificate of occupancy shall be issued unless all electrical and gas appliances shall be clean and in proper working order, all rugs shampooed, all glass surfaces washed and all walls, floors and ceramic surfaces cleaned and sanitary. Pursuant to and in accordance with N.J.S.A. 40:52-1.2, no certificate of occupancy will be issued to a dwelling unit owner whereby the dwelling unit owner has failed to pay the taxes due on the property for at least three consecutive quarters. Upon payment of the delinquent taxes or assessments, the certificate of occupancy will be issued.
A "dwelling unit" is a room or group of rooms which form a single
unit to be occupied by one or more persons for all or any combination
of the following uses: living, sleeping, cooking and eating.
[Amended 4-9-1997 by Ord. No. 1011]
The public officer, for the purposes of this article, shall
be the Municipal Code Enforcement Officer.
Thirty days after the effective date of this article, the party
responsible for the dwelling units shall provide to the public officer
a list, by unit, containing the names and addresses of all tenants.
Further, by the first day of each succeeding month, a list of the
changes in occupancies shall be provided to said public officer.
All applications for the issuance of a certificate of occupancy shall be accompanied by a fee as provided in Chapter
150, Fees, Article
I, Fee Schedule, §
150-17, made payable to the Borough of Lindenwold.
[Amended 11-5-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-01]
Any individual person, group of persons, association, partnership
or corporation or any combination thereof who leases or rents a dwelling
unit without a certificate of occupancy being issued by the public
officer shall be subject to a fine of $100 for each day each dwelling
unit is occupied without a certificate of occupancy.