The Mayor and Council of the Borough of Spring Lake finds, determines
and declares that:
A. Spring Lake is a residential community and its citizens have experienced
disturbances, damage and public expense resulting from carelessly
granted and inadequately supervised seasonal rentals to irresponsible
vacationers by inept or indifferent landlords.
B. This article is enacted to preserve the peace and tranquility of
the community for its permanent residents, and to maintain the municipality
as a viable vacation resort for all persons and families availing
themselves of the facilities in the community.
C. The enactment of this article is necessary and desirable to provide
a means to curb and discourage those occasional excesses arising from
irresponsible seasonal rentals.
D. The Legislature of the State of New Jersey enacted N.J.S.A. 40:48-2.12n
et seq. to enable certain communities to take effective action to
assure that excesses, when they occur, shall not be repeated, and
that landlords offering seasonal rentals be held to sufficient standards
of responsibility.
For the purpose of this article, the following meanings shall
apply:
HEARING OFFICER
A licensed attorney of the State of New Jersey appointed
by the Mayor, subject to the advice and consent of the Borough Council.
LANDLORD
The person or persons who own or purport to own any building
in which there is rented or offered for rent housing space for living
or dwelling under either a written or oral lease, including but not
limited to any building subject to the Hotel and Multiple Dwelling
Law, P.L. 1967, c. 76 (N.J.S.A. 55:13A-1 et seq.), and owner-occupied
two-unit premises. In the case of a mobile home park, "landlord" means
the owner of an individual dwelling unit within the mobile home park.
SEASONAL RENTAL
Any rental of residential accommodations for a term of less
than one year and including any part of the period extending from
May 15 to September 15.
SUBSTANTIATED COMPLAINT
An act of disorderly, indecent, tumultuous, noise or riotous
conduct upon or in proximity to any seasonal rental premises, and
attributable to the acts or incitements of any of the tenants of those
premises which have been substantiated by prosecution and conviction
in any court of competent jurisdiction of disorderly persons or Borough
ordinances.
The hearing officer shall be a person or person appointed by
the Mayor subject to the advice and consent of the Mayor and Council.
A hearing officer shall not own or lease any real property within
the Borough of Spring Lake, nor hold any interest in the assets of
or profits arising from the ownership or lease of such property.