Do not evaluate applicants using specified criminal records
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 46:8-56(a)State law
A housing provider may not evaluate an applicant based on arrests or charges without conviction, expunged or pardoned convictions, legally nullified convictions, juvenile delinquency adjudications, or sealed records, before or after a conditional offer.
Answers the question “What can they check about me?”
The source
… inaccuracies within the applicant's criminal record or evidence of rehabilitation or other mitigating factors. c. A housing provider shall apply the standards established by this section to each applicant in a nondiscriminatory manner. C.46:8-56 Housing provider’s consideration of applicant’s record. 5. a. A housing provider shall not, either before or after the issuance of a conditional offer, evaluate an applicant based on any of the following types of criminal records: (1) arrests or charges that have not resulted in a criminal conviction; (2) expunged convictions; (3) convictions erased through executive pardon; (4) vacated and otherwise legally nullified convictions; (5) juvenile adjudications of delinquency; and (6) records that have been sealed. b. After the issuance of a conditional offer to an applicant, a housing provider may only consider a criminal record in…
- Official law
- Open the official source
- Document
- D065, retrieved Oct 1, 2026
- Dates
- In force since Jan 1, 2022
- Status on Oct 1, 2026
- In force
What it depends on
- Covers
- Conditions not extracted yet.
- Exemptions
- Owner-occupied premises with no more than four dwelling units are outside the act's definition of rental dwelling unit.
- 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
- Screening
- Requirement
- A housing provider may not evaluate an applicant based on arrests or charges without conviction, expunged or pardoned convictions, legally nullified convictions, juvenile delinquency adjudications, or sealed records, before or after a conditional offer.
- 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: in force from 2022-01-01; before that, not yet 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. Stat. Ann. § 46:8-56(a) covers this address: 20 units (NJ class 4C, building description "5B-20U-H").