ASSEMBLY HOUSING COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

ASSEMBLY, No. 1842

with committee amendments

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: JUNE 10, 1996

      The Assembly Housing Committee reports favorably Assembly Bill No. 1842, with committee amendments.

      This bill, as amended by the committee, would exempt from the requirements of the "Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Law," P.L.1967, c.76 (C.55:13A-1 et seq.), certain condominiums, cooperatives and mutual housing corporations that are occupied entirely by owners of the condominium units or shareholders in the cooperative or mutual corporation. It broadens the existing exemption that was enacted by P.L.1983, c.2, but limited at that time to certain "garden apartment" type structures of two units or less.

      The committee amended the bill to broaden the exemption which currently exists in statute for condominiums, cooperatives and mutual housing corporations buildings that consist of two attached units, to exempt buildings consisting of no more than four units, provided the units are separated by a fire wall of fire resistency that meets the State Uniform Construction Code at the time of the unit's construction, or standards established by the Bureau of Housing Inspection.