New Jersey S 713: Concerns safety measures at apartment complex swimming pools.

Bill Text

S713 

SENATE, No. 713 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator JOHN J. BURZICHELLI

District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)

SYNOPSIS

���� Concerns safety measures at apartment complex 
swimming pools.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning swimming pools in apartment complexes and 
amending P.L.1991, c.135.

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

���� 1.��� Section 1 of P.L.1991, 
c.135 (C.26:4A-4) is amended to read as follows:

���� 1.��� As used in this act:

���� �Apartment complex� means 
one or more apartment buildings located on the same premises and owned by a 
person or entity that receives monthly rental payments from tenants who occupy 
the premises.

���� "Campground" means a 
plot of ground upon which two or more campsites are located, established or 
maintained for occupancy by camping units of the general public as temporary 
living quarters for children or adults, or both, for a total of 15 days or more 
in any calendar year, for recreation, education, or vacation purposes.

���� "Common interest 
community" means:

���� a.���� property subject to the 
"Condominium Act," P.L.1969, c.257 (C.46:8B-1 et seq.) or the 
"Horizontal Property Act," P.L.1963, c.168 (C.46:8A-1 et seq.);

���� b.��� a housing corporation or 
association, commonly known as a cooperative, which entitles the holder of a 
share or membership interest thereof to possess and occupy for dwelling 
purposes a house, apartment, manufactured or mobile home or other unit of 
housing owned or leased by the corporation or association, or to lease or 
purchase a unit of housing constructed or to be constructed by the corporation 
or association; or

���� c.���� real estate with 
respect to which a person, by virtue of his ownership of a unit, is obligated 
to pay for real estate taxes, insurance premiums, maintenance or improvement of 
other real estate described in the instrument, however denominated, which creates 
the common interest community.� Ownership of a unit does not include holding a 
leasehold interest of less than 20 years in a unit, including renewal options.

���� "Health club" means 
a health club that is registered with the Director of the Division of Consumer 
Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety pursuant to P.L.1987, c.238 
(C.56:8-39 et seq.).

���� "Hotel" or 
"motel" means a commercial establishment with a building of four or 
more dwelling units or rooms used for rental and lodging by guests.

���� "Mobile home park" 
means a parcel of land, or two or more contiguous parcels of land, containing 
at least 10 sites equipped for the installation of mobile or manufactured 
homes, where these sites are under common ownership and control, other than as 
a cooperative, for the purpose of leasing each site to the owner of a mobile or 
manufactured home for the installation thereof, and where 

the owner provides services, which 
are provided by the municipality in which the park is located for property 
owners outside the park, which services may include, but shall not be limited 
to:

���� a.���� Construction and 
maintenance of streets;

���� b.��� Lighting of streets and 
other common areas;

���� c.���� Garbage removal;

���� d.��� Snow removal; and

���� e.���� Provision for the 
drainage of surface water from home sites and common areas.

���� "Private lake, river or 
bay or private community lake, river or bay association" means an 
organization of property owners within a fixed or defined geographical area 
with deeded or other rights to utilize, with similarly situated owners, various 
lakefront, riverfront or bayfront properties, which properties are not open to 
the general public, other than bona fide guests of a member of the private 
lake, river or bay or private community lake, river or bay association.

���� "Private marina" 
means a privately-owned water dependent facility for the docking, servicing or 
storage of private boats, at which services are provided on an annual, seasonal 
or per diem basis, and which facility is not open to the general public, other 
than bona fide guests of boat owners eligible to use the marina and which has a 
private swimming pool that is not open to the general public, other than bona 
fide guests of boat owners eligible to use the marina.

���� "Retirement 
community" means a retirement community which is registered with the 
Division of Housing and Development in the Department of Community Affairs 
pursuant to "The Planned Real Estate Development Full Disclosure 
Act," P.L.1977, c.419 (C.45:22A-21 et seq.).

���� "Specially exempt 
facility" means: 

���� a. a private lake, 
river or bay or private community lake, river or bay association, or private 
nonprofit common interest community which restricts the use of its lake, river, 
bay or pool, as a