Mandatory disclosure for rent increases
Jersey City Code § 218-12.3(a)City law
With any lease or written notice of rent increase for a residential dwelling unit, the landlord must provide a sworn disclosure statement, executed under penalty of perjury and substantially in the prescribed form. The form certifies that no entity exchanged anything of value for a Service Provider’s services in connection with the proposed rent, that the rent-increase methodology did not use shared non-public competitor data, and includes the stated acknowledgment concerning illegal deception, fraud, misrepresentation, or knowing failure or refusal to provide important information.
Answers the question “Can rent-setting software be used on my rent?”
The source
… ☐ Certification Required Ord. 25-098 An Ordinance amending Chapter 218 (Multiple Dwellings) of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Jersey City by adding Subsection 3 “Mandatory Disclosure for Rent Increases” to Section 12 and correcting language in Section 1. 3. Mandatory Disclosure for Rent Increases: a. Any landlord must include, with any lease or written notice of rent increase for a residential dwelling unit, a sworn disclosure statement, executed under penalty of perjury, in substantially the following form: MANDATORY ALGORITHMIC RENT-SETTING DISCLOSURE Pursuant to Jersey City Code § 218-12 I, the undersigned, being the landlord or an authorized agent of the landlord for the property located at ____________________, for dwelling unit ______, hereby certify under the penalty of perjury that: …
- Official law
- Open the official source
- Document
- S017, retrieved Oct 3, 2026
- Dates
- In force since Oct 15, 2025
- Status on Oct 1, 2026
- In force
What it depends on
- Covers
- Applies to a lease or written notice of rent increase for a residential dwelling unit.
- Open question
- New Jersey’s FAIR Act may override the local algorithmic-rent-setting ordinances in Jersey City and Hoboken once the state law takes effect.
- What you can do next
- Read the law at its official source
Audit trail
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Extracted by the model
What the model read from the source text, checked by code (the quote must appear word for word).
- Category
- Rent-setting software
- Requirement
- With any lease or written notice of rent increase for a residential dwelling unit, the landlord must provide a sworn disclosure statement, executed under penalty of perjury and substantially in the prescribed form. The form certifies that no entity exchanged anything of value for a Service Provider’s services in connection with the proposed rent, that the rent-increase methodology did not use shared non-public competitor data, and includes the stated acknowledgment concerning illegal deception, fraud, misrepresentation, or knowing failure or refusal to provide important information.
- 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-JERSEY-CITY.
- Dates: in force from 2025-10-15 (New Jersey municipal default: 20 days after final passage 2025-09-25 (N.J.S.A. 40:49-2(d), 40:69A-181(b)); mayoral approval or publication may make it later); 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.
- 50 applies
- 90 not covered
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