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Bill Text

A4007 1R 

[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 4007 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

� 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 5, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman� DAVID BAILEY, JR.

District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)

Assemblyman� STERLEY S. STANLEY

District 18 (Middlesex)

Senator� JOHN J. BURZICHELLI

District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Moen and Sampson

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires sellers of real property to disclose 
presence of dams. 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� As reported by the Assembly Housing Committee on June 
8, 2026, with amendments.

�� 

An Act concerning disclosure of dams on real property and 
supplementing P.L.1960, c.39 (C.56:8-1 et seq.).

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� a.�������� A seller of 
real property located in this State shall disclose, on the property condition 
disclosure statement, whether a dam is located within the boundaries of the 
property and any actual knowledge of the seller concerning the dam, as required 
pursuant to this section, to the purchaser before the purchaser becomes 
obligated under any contract for the purchase of the property.

���� b.��� The Division of Consumer 
Affairs, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection, 
Department of Community Affairs and New Jersey Real Estate Commission, in 
addition to any other question as the director deems necessary, shall add the 
following specific questions and information to the property condition 
disclosure statement concerning dams on a property being sold.� 1The division shall revise the regulations 
promulgated pursuant to subsection c. of section 1 of P.L.1999, c.76 
(C.56:8-19.1) with which the property condition disclosure statement is 
required to comply to incorporate the requirements of this section, but in 
advance of that rulemaking the division shall make the disclosure statement 
revised pursuant to this section available for use by publishing the revised 
disclosure statement on the division�s website.1� The additions to the property condition 
disclosure statement shall contain the heading "Disclosure of Dam 
Ownership" and contain questions, and space for sellers to answer yes, no, 
or unknown.� If a seller answers yes to any question, the disclosure statement 
shall require the seller to explain the answer.� The disclosure statement shall 
contain the following questions:

���� (1) Is there a dam located 
wholly or partially on the property? If so, what is the hazard classification 
for the dam?

���� (2) If current law requires 
the inspection of the dam, what are the results of the most recent inspection?

���� (3) If there are any 
obligations associated with the dam under State law for which a purchaser would 
assume responsibility for, what are the obligations? 

���� c.���� The Division of 
Consumer Affairs, in consultation with the Department of Environmental 
Protection, shall include in the disclosure requirements and form to be 
distributed to 1sellers 
and1 
purchasers of real property before the purchaser becomes obligated under any 
contract for the purchase of the property, that the 1seller 
or1 
purchaser may obtain information relating to the ownership responsibilities, 
removal, and hazard classification of dams by contacting the Bureau of Dam 
Safety in the Department of Environmental Protection or by going to the website 
that the Department of Environmental Protection shall maintain and ensure is 
managed with current and scientifically supported information 1[, including 
any information about dams in the State gathered through the property condition 
disclosure statement,]1 
and linked to and published on the website of the Department of Community 
Affairs.� The Department of Environmental Protection's website shall, at a 
minimum, include information that helps 1[property 
owners] 
sellers1 
provide the disclosures enumerated in this statute 1, 
including notice that a seller or purchaser may contact the Bureau of Dam 
Safety in the Department of Environmental Protection to help determine whether 
a dam is subject to the provisions of the "Safe Dam Act," P.L.1981, 
c.249 (C.58:4-8.1 et seq.) or regulations adopted under chapter 20 of Title 7 
of the New Jersey Administrative Code.

���� d.��� As used in this 
section, "dam" means an artificial dike, levee or other barrier, 
together with appurtenant works, which is constructed for the purpose of 
impounding water, on a permanent or temporary basis, that raises the water 
level five feet or more above the usual, mean, low water height when measured 
from the downstream toe-of-dam to the emergency spillway crest or, in the 
absence of an emergency spillway, the top-of-dam.� The term shall not include a 
dam in the pinelands area, as designated by subsection a. of section 10 of 
P.L.1979, c.111 (C.13:18A-11), that raises the waters of any river or stream 
less than eight feet above the surface of the gr