[Adopted 3-16-1983 by Ord. No. 1593]
WHEREAS, the conversion, rental, use or occupancy of separate furnished or unfurnished sleeping quarters in buildings designed for three and four or more dwellings and the resultant fragmentation of dwellings into rooms or spaces of housing for rental is contrary to the Zoning and Building Codes of the Town of West New York and causes substandard housing conditions harmful to the public health, safety and welfare of the community, and
WHEREAS, many of the buildings in West New York lack design and safety features to accommodate the overcrowding of persons, which results from such conversions and use, and
WHEREAS, the sharing of common kitchen, bath and toilet facilities in a dwelling is an arrangement which creates problems of health, safety and sanitation for the community as well as the occupants, including the difficulty of enforcing cleanliness, controlling and supervising uses of such facilities, and an increased risk of communication of diseases and an accelerated deterioration of the dwelling unit due to overuse.
Now therefore, be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of the Town of West New York, County of Hudson, State of New Jersey, as follows:
No person, firm, corporation, entity, owner, tenant, subtenant or other person having the ownership or control of any dwelling unit in any three- or four-family or multiple dwelling building shall convert or enter into any other arrangement to permit any person, firm, corporation or entity to change, occupy, use, control or maintain any room or rooms within their building for separate use as a subdivision of the dwelling unit and solely as a place of sleeping accommodation, whether furnished or unfurnished, nor permit any person, firm or entity to share, use or maintain any kitchen, bath or toilet facilities within any dwelling unit occupied by another person, firm, entity, corporation or family unit.
A. 
The prohibition set forth in this article shall not apply to any building which is exclusively designed, used and rented as a rooming house, boardinghouse, hotel, motel or one- or two-family houses, provided that same is licensed under the laws of the State of New Jersey or any applicable laws of the Town of West New York.
B. 
The prohibition set forth in this article shall not apply to temporary overnight guests who are related to the legal occupant of the dwelling unit, by blood or marriage.
This article shall take effect immediately upon passage and publication according to law; provided, however, that any person, firm, corporation or entity who presently occupies a furnished or unfurnished living accommodation which is in violation of this article shall be permitted to remain in occupancy for a period of 30 days from the date of notice of this violation to afford such occupant that thirty-day period of time to locate a substitute living accommodation which conforms to the codes and ordinances of the Town of West New York.
Any person who violates the terms of this article shall be subject to a fine of not less than $100 or not more than $500 and/or term of imprisonment of not more than 90 days. Each day or part thereof that a violation shall continue after written notice to cease is served by the Town upon the owner or managing agent of the building shall constitute a separate violation of this article.