City of Hoboken, NJ
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2024-02-21
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Part II General Legislation
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Chapter 155 Rent Control
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Article IX Temporary Moratorium on Rent Increases During COVID-19 Pandemic State of Emergency
- Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Administration, Department of
- Ch 5 Revenue and Finance, Department of
- Ch 6 Administrative Affairs
- Ch 7 Affordable Housing, Council on
- Ch 9 Alcoholic Beverage Control, Board of
- Ch 11 Assessor
- Ch 12 (Reserved)
- Ch 16 Budget Operations
- Ch 19 Clerks, Municipal
- Ch 20 Community Development, Department of
- Ch 20A Professional Services Contracts
- Ch 20B Land Use Applicant Contribution Disclosure Statements
- Ch 20C (Reserved)
- Ch 20D (Reserved)
- Ch 21 Court, Municipal
- Ch 23 Required Wage, Benefit and Leave Standards for Building Service Workers on Covered Development Projects
- Ch 25 Electronic Accessibility of Public Information
- Ch 26 (Reserved)
- Ch 28 Public Records
- Ch 29 Ethics
- Ch 29A Financial Disclosure Statements
- Ch 30 Gift Policy
- Ch 31 (Reserved)
- Ch 32 First Source Agreements
- Ch 33 (Reserved)
- Ch 34 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 34A (Reserved)
- Ch 35 Civic Green Buildings
- Ch 36 Cannabis Review Board
- Ch 36A Hoboken Municipal Hospital Authority
- Ch 37 Hoboken Redevelopment Agency
- Ch 38 Housing Authority
- Ch 39 Climate Action and Innovation, Department of
- Ch 42 Historic Preservation
- Ch 43 Self-Insurance Plan and Fund
- Ch 44 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 46 Public Property
- Ch 48 Library: Board of Trustees
- Ch 51 Mayor, Office of
- Ch 53 Nursing Service, Public Health
- Ch 54 Officers and Employees
- Ch 55 Open Space Trust Fund
- Ch 56 Transportation and Parking Utility
- Ch 56A Parklands
- Ch 57 Water Utility
- Ch 58 Parks, Recreation, and Public Works, Department of
- Ch 59 Police Department
- Ch 59A Public Safety, Department of
- Ch 60 Purchasing
- Ch 61 Rainforests, Protection of
- Ch 62 Shade Tree Commission
- Ch 63 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 64 North Hudson Sewerage Authority
- Ch 64A Transportation and Parking, Department of
- Ch 65 Youth-Serving Organizations
- General Legislation
- Ch 65A Affordable Housing
- Ch 65B Development Fees
- Ch 66 Alarms
- Ch 68 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 68A Alcoholic Beverages: Temporary Provisions
- Ch 74 Amusement Devices; Vending Machines
- Ch 76 Asbestos and Dust Protection
- Ch 77 Auctioneers
- Ch 79 (Reserved)
- Ch 79A Building Demolition
- Ch 80 Buildings and Dwellings, Dangerous or Unfit
- Ch 83 Certificates of Occupancy; Certificates of Continued Occupancy
- Ch 85 Condominium Conversions
- Ch 86 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 87 Crane Regulations
- Ch 89 Curfew; Civil Disturbances
- Ch 93 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 94 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 95 Dwellings; Minimum Standards
- Ch 97 Filming
- Ch 98 Firearms
- Ch 99 Fire Insurance Liens
- Ch 101 Fire Prevention
- Ch 104 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 108 Games of Chance on Sundays
- Ch 110 Garbage, Rubbish and Litter
- Ch 113 Glue, Sale and Use of
- Ch 115 Health/Sanitary Code
- Ch 116 Heating of Buildings; Fuel Oil
- Ch 118 Horse Flesh
- Ch 120 Maintenance of Hotels and Multiple Dwellings
- Ch 125 Lead Paint
- Ch 128 Licenses
- Ch 133 Noise Control
- Ch 135 Nuclear-Free Zone
- Ch 136 Nuisances
- Ch 138 Outdoor Dining
- Ch 140 Parking Lots, Surface
- Ch 141 Parking Garages and Lots, Public
- Ch 141A Parking Permits
- Ch 145 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 146 Peddlers; Transient Merchants
- Ch 147 Mobile Retail Food Vendors
- Ch 148 Property Maintenance
- Ch 151 Recycling
- Ch 154 Rental Housing; Warehousing
- Ch 155 Rent Control
- Ch 155 Art IX Temporary Moratorium on Rent Increases During COVID-19 Pandemic State of Emergency
- § 155-38 Temporary moratorium on rent increases during COVID-19 pandemic state of emergency established.
- Ch 158 (Reserved)
- Ch 160 Sales
- Ch 163 Sewers and Sewerage Disposal
- Ch 166 Stormwater Management
- Ch 168 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 168A (Reserved)
- Ch 171 Strike Employees
- Ch 177 Taxation
- Ch 179 Special Improvement District
- Ch 179A Taxicabs
- Ch 180 Shuttle Buses
- Ch 180A Limousines
- Ch 183 Tattoo, Body Piercing, and Body Art Establishments
- Ch 184 Towing
- Ch 185 Body-Piercing Parlors
- Ch 187 Union Label, Use of
- Ch 190 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 191 Vehicles, Unregistered
- Ch 192 Parking for Persons With Disabilities
- Ch 193 Water
- Ch 194 Waterfront
- Ch 195 (Reserved)
- Ch 196 Zoning
- Ch 197 Government Energy Aggregation Program
- Ch 198 Third-Party Takeout and Delivery Service Fees
- Ch 199 Service Worker Retention
- Ch 201 Rebuild by Design Regulations
- Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 200 Board of Health Legislation
- Appendix
- Ch A260 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A261 Mobile Digital Data Communications Systems
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Added Ord. No. B-257]
A.
A moratorium shall be in effect to prevent any increase in the amount
paid in rent or any additional charges whatsoever by tenants covered
by this chapter. During this period, no rent shall be increased as
to any property covered by this chapter (where "rent" is defined for
purposes of this subsection as any price for the use of a tenancy,
no matter how set forth, including amounts paid by the tenant for
the use of any service in connection with a tenancy, including but
not limited to monies demanded or paid for a property tax surcharge,
capital improvement surcharge, water surcharge, sewer surcharge, CPI
increase, or any other surcharge).
B.
Additionally, no other charge associated with the rental of a property
covered by this chapter, including but not limited to charges for
parking, pets, the use of furniture, security deposits and damage
and cleaning deposits, shall be increased during this time.
C.
The moratorium shall be made retroactive to April 1, 2020, and shall
remain in effect until May 7, 2022.
[Amended 3-23-2022 by Ord. No. B-445]
D.
Notwithstanding the moratorium set forth in this subchapter, after the expiration of the moratorium period a landlord may, at the time of a new tenancy or lease renewal, increase the rent and surcharges to levels that would have otherwise been permitted under law, consistent with this subchapter of the Code, as if no moratorium had been imposed, except that no CPI increase during the period from the commencement of the moratorium (on April 1, 2020) through the end of the calendar year 2020 shall be permissible. Future increases in rent and surcharges for the multi-year period of the moratorium shall be permissible and they may be calculated and applied at the time of a new tenancy or lease renewal as if the moratorium never occurred, other than the prohibition related to the 2020 CPI increase set forth above. Any CPI increase memorialized in a lease renewal prior to the moratorium commencement date shall remain as a valid increase. However, all deferred rent increases allowed under this subchapter shall be prospective, and no retroactive rent or surcharge increase shall entitle a landlord to request or demand any retroactive payment, as a lump sum or otherwise, for increases that could otherwise have been imposed during the moratorium. The thirty-day notice required under § 155-4 shall be required in advance of imposing any increases following the expiration of the moratorium period.
[Amended 3-23-2022 by Ord. No. B-445]
