Eviction and nonrenewal require good cause
N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1State law
A residential landlord may not evict a tenant or fail to renew a written or oral lease without good cause, which the landlord must prove in court.
Answers the question “When can they end my tenancy?”
The source
… a “Notice to Quit,” on the tenant, the landlord may file suit for an eviction. If a suit for eviction is filed and the landlord wins his case, he may be granted a Judgment for Possession. A Judgment for Possession terminates the tenancy and allows the landlord to have the tenant evicted from the rental premises. No residential landlord may evict or fail to renew a lease, whether it is a written or an oral lease without good cause. The landlord must be able to prove in court that he has grounds for an eviction. 33 Applicability The Anti-Eviction Act applies to most residential rental properties including single-family homes, mobile homes and land in a mobile home park, apartment buildings, and complexes. This law also applies to rooming and boarding homes (N.J.S.A. 2A:18-53 to -84). Exceptions This law…
- Official law
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- Document
- D067, retrieved Oct 1, 2026
- Dates
- In force
- Status on Oct 1, 2026
- In force
What it depends on
- Covers
- Conditions not extracted yet.
- Exemptions
- May not apply to two- or three-unit owner-occupied premises with two or fewer rental units.
- What you can do next
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Audit trail
The model reads the law; code decides who it covers. The line between them stays visible.
Extracted by the model
What the model read from the source text, checked by code (the quote must appear word for word).
- Category
- Eviction protection
- Requirement
- A residential landlord may not evict a tenant or fail to renew a written or oral lease without good cause, which the landlord must prove in court.
- Key value
- none
- Effect
- protection_or_duty
- Quote found in source
- yes
- Confidence
- 90%
reasoning boundary
Decided by code
Deterministic: same rules, facts and date give the same answer.
- Jurisdiction: listed only for addresses whose state or legal city is NJ.
- Dates: no effective date in the text; treated as in force.
- Coverage: tested against whether the owner lives in the building, the number of units; a missing fact gives "unknown", never a guess.
As of Oct 1, 2026Engine run
Sources retrieved Oct 1, 2026.
Which buildings it reaches
All 140 sample addresses in New Jersey on Oct 1, 2026.
- 139 applies
- 1 unknown
Every dot is the rule engine’s result for that address. The larger dots are the example addresses listed below.
Decided by code for the example addresses
On Oct 1, 2026. Rules that don’t apply are left out.
- 327 Jackson St, Hoboken: Applies. N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1 covers this address: 20 units (NJ class 4C, building description "5B-20U-H").