Do not publish categorical criminal-record exclusion advertisements
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 46:8-58(a)State law
A housing provider may not knowingly or purposefully publish an advertisement explicitly stating that applicants arrested or convicted of crimes will not be considered, except for the two specified criminal-history categories.
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The source
… appropriate. b. The model documents prepared pursuant to this section shall be made available on the division’s Internet website, at no cost, and shall be in English, Spanish, and in any other language the director deems appropriate. C.46:8-58 Discriminatory advertisement by house provider, prohibited. 7. a. A housing provider shall not knowingly or purposefully publish, or cause to be published, any housing advertisement that explicitly provides that the housing provider will not consider any applicant who has been arrested or convicted of one or more crimes or offenses, except for drug-related criminal activity for the manufacture or production of methamphetamine on the premises of federally assisted housing, and whether the applicant is subject to a lifetime registration requirement under a State sex offender registration program. b. A housing provider shall not print, publish,…
- 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 knowingly or purposefully publish an advertisement explicitly stating that applicants arrested or convicted of crimes will not be considered, except for the two specified criminal-history categories.
- 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. § 46:8-58(a) covers this address: 20 units (NJ class 4C, building description "5B-20U-H").