New Jersey A 2795: Criminalizes certain actions of individuals who offer rental of residential property that they do not own or legally possess.

Bill Text

A2795 

ASSEMBLY, No. 2795 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman BRIAN E. RUMPF

District 9 (Ocean)

Assemblyman BRIAN BERGEN

District 26 (Morris and Passaic)

SYNOPSIS

���� Authorizes municipal dredging of lagoon community 
waterways and levying of special assessment or issuing of bonds to finance such 
dredging.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act concerning municipal assessments for dredging of 
certain community waterways and supplementing Title 12 and chapter 56 of Title 
40 of the Revised Statutes.

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

���� 1.��� A municipality in 
which a lagoon community is located may contract with a person properly 
certified, licensed or otherwise authorized to dredge waterways or properly 
dispose of dredged material to dredge the waterways servicing the lagoon 
community, whether manmade or naturally occurring, for the purpose of 
maintaining transportation by boat into, out of, and throughout the lagoon 
community.� The dredging may be restorative or maintenance dredging, or both. 
For the purposes of this section, "lagoon community" means any 
residential development in a coastal municipality where the waterways function 
as streets and provide access to, from and throughout the development via boat.

���� 2.��� Any municipality that 
contracts with a person properly certified, licensed or otherwise authorized to 
dredge waterways or properly dispose of dredged material to dredge the 
waterways servicing a lagoon community may finance the dredging or disposal by 
levying a special assessment on the property owners in the municipality that 
the municipality determines benefit from the dredging, or by issuing bonds for 
the capital improvement that the dredging represents, as otherwise provided in 
chapter 56 of Title 40 of the Revised Statutes.� For the purposes of this 
section, "lagoon community" means any residential development in a 
coastal municipality where the waterways function as streets and provide access 
to, from and throughout the development via boat.

���� 3.��� This act shall 
take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill authorizes a 
municipality in which a lagoon community is located to have waterways 
servicing the lagoon community dredged, and the dredged material properly 
disposed of, for the purpose of maintaining transportation by boat into, out 
of, and throughout the lagoon community. The bill further authorizes the 
municipality to finance the dredging and disposal through the levy of a special 
assessment on any property owners that the municipality determines to benefit 
from the dredging, or by issuing bonds for the dredging as a capital 
improvement. "Lagoon community" is defined in the bill as� any 
residential development in a coastal municipality where the waterways function 
as streets and provide access to, from and throughout the development via boat.