New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 5 - COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
Chapter 27 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING ROOMING AND BOARDING HOUSES
Subchapter 6 - SECURITY
Section 5:27-6.1 - Control of access
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024
(a) Every exterior door shall be equipped with heavy duty dead latching locksets (series 161, FF-H-106a, minimum, with a minimum 7/8 inch by 5/8 inch with 1/2 inch minimum throw latch bolt with automatic dead-locking plunger).
(b) Every resident of every rooming house and of every boarding house operated under a Class B license shall be provided with a key to the main entrance door and, if applicable, to his or her rooming unit door, free of charge. Replacement keys, when required, shall be provided at cost.
(c) All doors providing a means of egress shall be freely openable from the inside at all times.
(d) All exterior doors to common cellar or storage areas shall be lockable.
(e) Every entrance door to a rooming unit in every rooming house, and in every boarding house operated under a Class B license, shall be equipped with a medium duty dead latching lockset (series 160, FF-H-106a, minimum with a minimum 11/16 inch by 1/2 inch with 1/2 inch minimum throw latch bolt with automatic deadlocking plunger) or with a dead bolt lock separate from the latch set. Each such door shall also be equipped with a viewing device. In all rooming and boarding houses have locks on entrance doors to rooming units, a master key capable of opening all such locks shall be retained by the licensee and shall be readily available in event of any emergency.
(f) All openable windows, sliding doors, basement windows and windows opening onto areas affording easy access to the premises shall be equipped with a locking device of some kind. Grilles lockable from the inside only may be placed on the inside or outside of windows only if the windows do not serve to provide access to exits.
(g) Exposed hinges on exterior doors, and on entrance doors to rooming units where locks are required, shall have hinges with non-removable hinge pins.
(h) Every entrance door leading to living areas shall be kept locked at all times except when in actual use, except when a licensee or an employee of the licensee is stationed nearby for the purpose of controlling or supervising entry or other reasonable provision has been made for entry control.
(i) The main entrance door shall be equipped with an exterior doorbell, audible throughout the building when in use. In every boarding house operated under a Class C license, the licensee or an employee of the licensee shall at all times be responsible for answering the doorbell.
