Original-tenant designation and vacancy decontrol
Hoboken Rent Control Regulations, Regulation #3: Vacancy Decontrol as to Multiple TenantsCity law
A landlord renting an apartment to multiple tenants may designate all members of the original tenant group as original tenants; vacancy is deemed to occur when the last original tenant leaves, allowing the landlord to seek available vacancy-decontrol relief.
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The source
… Repealed by 155:23 Regulations to Chapter 155 as amended by the Board between 2022 and 2025 REGULATION #3 VACANCY DECONTROL AS TO MULTIPLE TENANTS (2/12/2025) For purposes of establishing a vacancy decontrol for an apartment unit in accordance with Article VII of the Rent Control Ordinance, a landlord who rents a residential apartment unit to multiple tenants may designate an original tenant category which shall consist of all the members of the original group of tenants to which the unit is rented. The designation under this regulation shall stipulate that a vacancy will be deemed to have occurred at the time that the last original tenant vacates the apartment unit and that the landlord will be fully entitled at such time to obtain whatever vacancy decontrol relief is available under the Ordinance in the same…
- Official law
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- Document
- S012, retrieved Oct 3, 2026
- Dates
- In force since Feb 12, 2025
- Status on Oct 1, 2026
- In force
What it depends on
- Covers
- Conditions not extracted yet.
- Key value
- Vacancy is deemed to occur when the last original tenant vacates
- What you can do next
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Audit trail
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- Category
- Rent increases
- Requirement
- A landlord renting an apartment to multiple tenants may designate all members of the original tenant group as original tenants; vacancy is deemed to occur when the last original tenant leaves, allowing the landlord to seek available vacancy-decontrol relief.
- Key value
- Vacancy is deemed to occur when the last original tenant vacates
- 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-HOBOKEN.
- Dates: in force from 2025-02-12; before that, not yet in force.
- Coverage: no building condition the data can test; conditions in words stay with the text.
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.
- 40 applies
- 100 not covered
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. Citywide Hoboken rule in force since February 12, 2025 (Hoboken Rent Control Regulations, Regulation #3: Vacancy Decontrol as to Multiple Tenants); no building condition in it excludes this address.