New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 5 - COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
Chapter 10 - MAINTENANCE OF HOTELS AND MULTIPLE DWELLINGS
Subchapter 1A - LOCAL ENFORCING AGENCIES
Section 5:10-1A.5 - Departmental monitoring
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024
(a) The Bureau of Housing Inspection shall institute a regular program of monitoring enforcing agencies to ensure that the Act and rules are being properly enforced. This monitoring program shall provide for random field visits as well as monitoring visits in response to complaints.
(b) When making a monitoring visit, the Bureau shall determine:
(c) If the Bureau determines that an enforcing agency has failed to properly enforce the Act or these rules, or is in violation of the rules, it shall notify the enforcing agency of the deficiencies and of the necessary corrective action.
(d) The enforcing agency shall have 15 days from the receipt of a notice to file written comments or objections with the Bureau who shall review the comments and objections and issue a final notice.
(e) When the enforcing agency fails to take corrective action or where a failure to enforce the Act and the rules is pervasive and substantial, the Bureau shall notify the enforcing agency of this finding and shall thereafter be responsible for enforcing the Act and rules.
(f) Where the Bureau has assumed responsibility pursuant to (e) above, the enforcing agency may petition the Commissioner for the return of jurisdiction. The petition shall indicate the corrective action taken or to be undertaken to ensure proper enforcement of the Act and rules. The Commissioner may return jurisdiction if he or she finds that the Act and rules will be properly enforced.
(g) In any case in which it may find it necessary to do so, the Bureau of Housing Inspection may supplant or replace a local enforcing agency for a specific project, without appeal.