Do not require drug or alcohol tests or request treatment-facility consent
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 46:8-60State law
A housing provider may not require an applicant to submit to a drug or alcohol test or request the applicant’s consent to obtain information from a drug abuse treatment facility.
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The source
… sexual act or in the simulation of such an act in violation of paragraph (3) of subsection b. of N.J.S.2C:24-4, or any crime that resulted in lifetime registration in a state sex offender registry. C.46:8-60 Drug, alcohol test, drug abuse treatment information; requirement by housing provider, prohibited. 9. A housing provider shall not require an applicant to submit to a drug or alcohol test, or request the applicant’s consent to obtain information from a drug abuse treatment facility. C.46:8-61 Unlawful acts by housing provider. 10. A person shall not interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of, or the attempt to exercise, any right protected under this act. If the division determines that a housing provider has engaged in one or more unlawful actions against a person with the intent of…
- 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
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
- Screening
- Requirement
- A housing provider may not require an applicant to submit to a drug or alcohol test or request the applicant’s consent to obtain information from a drug abuse treatment facility.
- 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. § 46:8-60 covers this address: 20 units (NJ class 4C, building description "5B-20U-H").